Donia Zhang

Dr Donia Zhang is an author, researcher, and editor of Architectural Humanities in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. She is the director of Chinese Culture Publishing, Neoland School of Chinese Culture, Neoland-Neolife Cross-Cultural Studies; the founding editor of Courtyard Architecture: Along the Silk Roads, around the World; and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (JCAU).

She has authored four scholarly books: 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), and Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America (2015/2017). She has also translated and published a Chinese Culture Book Series which is in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.

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 over 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. WorldCat has listed most of these publications.

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.