Xiangnan Xiong received her Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Before joining SJTU, she worked for two years at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. Her research focuses on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on modernist architecture in Germany and the United States.
ㅡ Research Interests | Nineteenth and twentieth century architecture and cities; History of dwellings and living cultures; German modernism； Architectural representation; Intellectual history and architecture. |
Fundings and Fellowship
(2023) Xing Ruan, Xiangnan Xiong, Huaqing Huang, Hao Wang, Funding for Postgraduate Textbook Project, SJTU ( 90,000 RMB)
(2021) Golden Bough Research Award in architecture and Civil Engineering, 1st Prize (tie), SJTU (20,000 RMB)
(2020)Excellent Core Curriculum, SJTU.(member)
(2018)Recruiting Scholarship ,Southern China University of Technology and Science (50,000 RMB)
(2016)Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (8,269 USD)
(2011-2012) Mebane Travel Fellowship & John Greene Taylor Family Foundation Fellowship in Architectural History, University of Texas at Austin (5,500 USD)
(2009-2010)Thesis Fellowship, School of Architecture, University of Virginia (7,000 USD)
PUBLICATIONS (English)-Sole author unless otherwise indicated
Journal Articles and Reviews
(2024) “Double-coding in Effect: The Reception of the Piazza d’Italia.” The Journal of Architecture 29(1&2):83-98.
(2019)“Invisible Lines: Patterns of Alignments of the Renderings of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wasmuth Portfolio.” The Journal of Architecture 24 (3): 408-429.
(2018)Review. The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture, by Christopher Long. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77(3):353-355.
(2016) Encyclopedia entry, “Hannes Meyer (1889-1954),” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, London and New York: Routledge, 2016, online access. (2013)Review, Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home, by Volker Welter; West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, online access .
Major Conference Papers
Selected Non-English PUBLICATIONS -Sole author unless otherwise indicated
Journal Articles
(2023)“密斯凡德罗和‘最低限度住宅’,”建筑史学刊 2023 (4):71-76. (“Mies van der Rohe and the Minimal Housing”)
(2023)Edward Koegel(author) and Xiangnan Xiong(translator)“现代的诱惑:德国思想在广州的传播,”建筑学报 661, 2023(12): 85-91. (Translation, “The Lure of the Modern: The transfer of German ideas to Guangzhou” by Eduard Kögel)
(2023)“纽约中央公园和奥姆斯泰德的景观设计思想遗产,”遗产 ，第八辑:74-89. (“The Central Park in New York City and the Heritage of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Landscape Design ”)
(2019)“‘花花世界’和歧路空间:约瑟夫·弗兰克的别样现代主义,” 时代建筑 169(5):71-75.(“A Breezy World and Spaces as Path: Josef Frank’s Alternative Modernism”)
(2018)“古根海姆博物馆:建筑造型,展览空间,和抽象艺术的融合,” 装饰 304(8):30-35.(“The Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright: An Integration of Spaces, Events, and Abstract Arts”)
(2018)“密斯早期住宅：文艺复兴花园别墅传统的转化,” 建筑师 192(4): 63-69.(“Riehl House and Urbig House: Mies van der Rohe’s Critical Adaption of Renaissance Villas and Gardens”)
Books (chapters and translation)
(2019, book chapter)“杰弗逊和中国风的世界,” 黄运昇,董哲,和熊庠楠编著,托玛斯·杰斐逊:总统建筑师 (江苏:江苏凤凰科学技术出版社, 2019): 230-261. (chapter 6 “Thomas Jefferson and the World of Chinoiserie”)
(2019, book chapter)“传承与转化：从弗吉尼亚大学学术村到清华大礼,”黄运昇,董哲,和熊庠楠编著, 托玛斯·杰斐逊:总统建筑师 (江苏:江苏凤凰科学技术出版社, 2019): 262-291. ( chapter 7 “Transition and Transformation: From the Academic Village of University of Virginia to the Auditorium at Tsinghua University”)
(2018, translation, German to Chinese) 熊庠楠 和梁楹成翻译, 尽管如此,1900-1930:装饰与罪恶. 武汉&天津:华中科技大学出版社, 2018. (Translation, Trotzdem 1900-1930 by Adolf Loos)
Courses:
Modern Architecture and Cities (Dual language, 32hr)
Student Ratings: A2&A1; top 15% of the university faculty
Cities, Dwellings, and Ways of Living: a Historical Perspective(English, 32hr)
Student Ratings: A1, top 5% of the university faculty
Joint Courses:
Studio 2-2( Dual language, 32/128 hr)
graduates(co-advised with Dean Xing Ruan):
Simone Perilli (joint Master’s program with Politecnico di Milano)
Laura Buendia Ruiz (graduated in 2022)
