Shurui Zhang is an urban designer and researcher focused on creating resilient and inclusive cities. At WXY, she worked on urban waterfront projects and infrastructure vision plans. As a Virginia Sea Grant fellow, she contributed to the Virginia Coastal Adaptation Master Plan, supporting coastal resilience efforts through both administrative work and research. Her current independent research with Zihao, funded by the New York Architecture League, examines “Chinese diasporic urbanism” in Flushing and Long Island City, aiming to expand urban design and architectural theories for more equitable communities.

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.