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. Through building transdisciplinary, critical analyses across design, engineering, and environmental humanities, his work interrogates the ramifications of cybernetics on contemporary culture and the constructed environment. 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. 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 interim 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.