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Professor Zhou, Ying 周穎

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Associate Professor

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Professor Zhou, Ying 周穎

Title:
Associate Professor

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
Princeton UniversityB.S.E.
Harvard UniversityM.Arch
2015Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)Ph.D.
Biography

Ying Zhou is an architect who joined the faculty of architecture at the University of Hong Kong in 2016. Prior to her move to Hong Kong, she had been teaching and researching contemporary cities at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). She was a lecturer and researcher with the chair of Kees Christiaanse at the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) of the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) 2011-2015, where she had focused on the relationship of contemporary urban developments and the growth of cultural industries in East Asian city centres, and with the chair of Herzog & de Meuron at ETH Studio Basel 2007-2011, where she taught urban research on Kolkata, Damascus and Cairo and produced a book about MetroBasel. She has published in Critical Planning, Monu, Urban China [城市中国], LEAP 艺术界, amongst others. Her design research work with her team at the FCL, “Spaces of New Economies” is exhibited at the Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam in 2016 and has been exhibited at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore previously. Her design research projects on contemporary urban developments has been exhibited at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and in the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. Born in Shanghai, Ying holds a B.S.E. in Architecture and Engineering from Princeton, a M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, a Ph.D. from the ETHZ, and was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Stuttgart. She has taught and practiced in New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Detroit, Boston and Basel.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2010-10-01Wheelwright Fellowship: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Research Achievement
2014-01-01Golden Brick Award for Teaching Excellence 2013: Department of Architecture, ETHZ
Teaching Accomplishment
2007-06-01Alpha Rho Chi Medal for Service: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Others
2007-06-01Penny White Traveling Fellowship: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Research Achievement
2001-08-01Fulbright Fellowship: Fulbright Commission
Research Achievement
2005-05-01Traveling Fellowship: Harvard University Center for Environment
Research Achievement
2019-07-01Accolades in the Social Sciences - IBP 2019: Publishers Accolade for Outstanding Production Value: International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
1/2023-Board MemberETHZ Alumni Chapter Hong Kong Macau
1/2023-12/2024EditorArchitectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
1/2023-12/2023ChairDocomomoHK
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
urbanism and urban design
institutions and governance frameworks
East Asian cities
creative industries, cultural industries
contemporary art spaces
architectural design
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Putonghua, Shanghainese, German英語、普通話、上海話、德語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Chinese, German英文、中文、德文
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