Donia has
authored four scholarly books with one forthcoming: Courtyard
Houses of Beijing: Past, Present, and Future (2009/2010/2011),
Schoolyard
Gardening as Multinaturalism: Theory, Practice, and Product (2009),
Courtyard
Housing and Cultural Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Product
(2013/2016), Courtyard
Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North
America (2015/2017), and The
Curriculum for Chinese Culture (forthcoming).
Moreover, she
contributed three chapters in two eBooks, Dialogues
of Sustainable Urbanisation: Social Science Research and Transitions to
Urban Contexts (2015), and New
Approaches in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism (2020). She
has also published 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Furthermore,
she is a contributor of three entries and translated the Chinese lexicon
for the Encyclopedia
of Vernacular Architecture of the World (2022, 2nd ed). WorldCat
has listed most of these publications.
Donia has seven
years of work experience in the architectural
industry in Toronto and Chicago, and eleven years of teaching
experience in higher education in Ontario, Canada. The subjects she
has taught include: History of Art and Architecture, Interior Design,
and AutoCAD, among others. She serves on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Architectural Research and Development (JARD), Architecture
and Design Review (ADR), and International
Journal of Architecture, Arts and Applications (IJAAA).
Donia
is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University (BArch,
MA,
PhD)
in the UK and Brock University (MEd)
in Canada. She has also obtained a Verified
Certificate of Achievement in The Architectural Imagination from Harvard
University | edX, and a Verified
Certificate of Achievement in Interpreting Vernacular Architecture in
Asia from the University of Hong Kong | edX. She is a former associate
at the City Institute at York University, and a visiting scholar/occasional
co-instructor at McMaster University, Canada.
Keywords:
Architectural humanities, Architecture and urbanism, Courtyard
housing, Chinese culture, Philosophy of architecture
Keynote
Speaker
"Courtyard
Housing around the World: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Contemporary Relevance"
(Best
Paper Award) at the 3rd International Conference of Contemporary Affairs
in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA), Alanya HEP University, Turkey,
2020/5/6. Cambridge Open Engage: https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2020-rb9n2
Key Talks
"Courtyard
Garden for Health and Happiness" at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical
Chinese Garden/Vancouver Chinese Garden, Canada, 2018/8/30.
"Courtyard
Housing for Health and Happiness" at Innovation Summit on Smart
City and Green Development, Innovation Round Table for Smart City, Beijing,
China, 2017/7/7. Cambridge Open Engage: https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2020-6jpdq
"Courtyard
Housing and Cultural Sustainability: A discussion on housing renewal and
redevelopment in Beijing" at Courtyard Institute, Beijing, China,
2017/5/20.
"Courtyard
Housing and Cultural Sustainability: A discussion on housing redevelopment
in Suzhou" at Duke Kunshan University, China, 2017/5/10.
"Courtyard
Housing and Cultural Sustainability in China" at Munk
School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto,
Canada, 2015/1/16. Cambridge Open Engage: https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2020-14lbc
"Adult
Perceptions of Student Involvement in Schoolyard Gardening" at
Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada, 2005/10/18. Cambridge
Open Engage: https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2020-j952n
Book Review
"Courtyard
Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North
America" 2018/1/2 | By Ulduz Maschaykh
News Media
"Beijing's
Five Architectural Colors, and the Symbolism Behind Them" 2020/2/1
| By Jeremiah Jenne
"Benefits
of the Courtyard House Design" 2018/2/19 | Blog post by TH!NK
by IBI; Photo by Rikke Filbaert Larsen on Unsplash
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ORCID: 0000-0001-9559-366X
ResearcherID: AAB-5462-2019
ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donia_Zhang
Scopus ID: 16235444200
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