Shurui Zhang is an urban designer and researcher. She worked on multiple urban waterfront projects and vision plans for urban infrastructure when she was a designer at WXY. Shurui was a Virginia Sea Grant fellow in the Office of Secretary of Natural Resources of Virginia. She contributed to the development of the Virginia Coastal Adaptation Master Plan, in both administration and research. Her work contributes to coastal resilience and adaptation in urban areas.
Shurui Zhang holds a dual degree in Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Zihao Zhang is a
designer, educator, and scholar in landscape architecture. As a landscape
theorist, he provides critical analyses of the entanglement between nature and
technology, the human and nonhuman realms, as well as ecosystems and
intelligent machines. Through building transdisciplinary investigation across design, engineering, and environmental humanities, his book Cybernetics
and the Constructed Environment interrogates the ramifications of
cybernetics on contemporary culture and the constructed environment. His design experiments inspire
innovative landscape strategies to address pressing issues such as the climate
crisis and social injustice, along with their cumulative effects on communities
and urban landscapes.
Zihao Zhang currently serves as an assistant professor
and director of the landscape architecture program at the City College
of New York Spitzer School of Architecture. He holds a PhD in the Constructed Environment and Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University.