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Huaqing Huang is a tenure-track associate professor, doctoral supervisor at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in architecture both from Tsinghua University. He was a visiting scholar in University of California, Berkeley (2016) and Politecnico di Milano (2010), and a Pritzker-fellowship intern at Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris (2012). He used to work a researcher in Nanjing University (2017-2021). He also serves as executive board member at International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), member of International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), and scientific board member at Committee on Vernacular Houses of Architectural Society of China.
His research interests encompass global history of settlements and housing, architectural anthropology, digital heritage and VR/XR design. He has conducted field investigations in over 200 traditional settlements in over 40 countries worldwide, leading to the publication of 7 books on global architecture, over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals including SSCI/CSSCI indexed ones, and over 10 international conference papers in cross-disciplinary fields. He also serves as the co-editor of the book series Architectural Anthropology: the Cross-Cultural Perspective published by the Tsinghua University Press, and the co-convenor of the annual conference Symposium on Architectural Anthropologysince 2018. He is also a practicing architect, mainly focused on preservation and regeneration projects in urban/rural traditional built environments. In addition, he has curated and designed several innovative digital art exhibitions, including Cloud Exhibition of the China Pavilion of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2023), and 'Shanghai 1924: An Immersive Journey of the Centennial Wukang Mansion'(2024). He is dedicated to forging new avenues in the integration of virtual and real design, merging cutting-edge technology with art and humanities.
He teaches courses in architectural design, digital design, architectural theory in both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also serves as a supervisor for Ph.D. and Master students with related interest fields, in both Chinese and English.
2021 2nd Prize, Architectural Design Award, Jiangsu Civil Engineering &Architectural Society (1/5)
2021 2nd Prize, (in Public Architecture Design), Architectural Design Award, Architectural Society of China (5/15)
2021 1st Prize, (in Environmental and Energy Design), Excellent Project Design Award, Ministry of Education (6/15)
2020 2nd Prize, Urban Design Category of Architectural Design Award, Jiangsu Civil Engineering &Architectural Society (1/5)
2019 1st Prize, Architectural Design Award, Jiangsu Civil Engineering &Architectural Society (2/5)
2018 Shortlist, World Architecture Festival/Amsterdam (3/9)
2018 Mention, ARCASIA Awards for Architecture/Tokyo (3/9)
Books
2024. The Silk Road and Asian Cities: Space and Life in a Cross-cultural Flow. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press (forthcoming).
2024. Global Housing: A History of Living Culture. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press (co-author, forthcoming).
2019. Subsistence in a Tea Village: Spatial and Social Changes in a Mountain Village in Fujian. Beijing: Guangming Daily Press.
2020. Outline of Chinese Traditional Houses. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press. (co-author, 3/5)
2020. Architecture, Anthropology and Beyond: Special Issue on Architectural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Research. Beijing: ArchiCreation Journal. (guest editor)
2020. Regional Building System and its Renovation Technologies in the Traditional Villages in Yuanyang. Nanjing: Southeast University Press. (co-author, 2/3)
2021. Urbanism in the Mobile Internet Era: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. Rotterdam: International Forum on Urbanism. (ISBN: 978-90-78658-19-1) (co-editor, 3/4)
2017. Classical Architecture in Italy. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. (co-author, 2/3)
2016. Classical Architecture in France and Benelux. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. (co-author, 2/4)
Translated Books
2024. Xing Ruan. (trans.) Huaqing Huang. Allegorical Architecture. Shanghai: The Commercial Press. (forthcoming)
2023. Andrew B. Liu. (trans.) Huaqing Huang and Tengda Hua. Tea War: a History of Capitalism in China and India.Shanghai: Oriental Publishing Center.
2021. Nezar Alsayyad. (trans.) Huaqing Huang and Yushu Liang. Traditions: The “Real”, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. (Chinese edition)
2020. Rupert Christiansen. (trans.) Huaqing Huang. City of Light: The Reinvention of Paris. Beijing: Beijing Yanshan Press. (Chinese edition)
2018 Sarah Besky. (trans.) Huaqing Huang. The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. (Chinese edition)
Journal Papers
2022 Huaqing Huang. “Spectacle and Everydayness: Transient Settlements on the Djemma-el-Fna Square in Marrakech from the Perspective of Spatial Ethnography”, Architectural Journal, 2022(01), pp. 117-122. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
2022 Huaqing Huang. “Encountering and Flowing-residence: BanVilla in the Urban-rural Rain of Jiangnan”, Time+Architecture, 2022(01), pp. 142-149. (in Chinese)
2022 Huaqing Huang and Yufei Zhou. “Towards Urban Heritage from the Global Perspective: Review on the 1st Symposium on ‘City in Global History, Global History in the City’”, Study on Natural and Cultural Heritage, 2022(01), pp. 42-45. (in Chinese)
2022 Huaqing Huang. “Viewing Cities from the Global History: Methods and Practice”, The Thinker, 2022(01), pp. 14-16. (in Chinese)
2021 Huaqing Huang. “Accumulation and Differentiation in Rural Context during the Tea Consumption Revolution: A Case Study of Village G in Fujian”, Journal of China Agricultural University (Social Sciences), 2021(06), pp. 5-17. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
2021, Huaqing Huang. “Beyond Vernacular Houses and Cultural Heritage: Review of Architecture and Cultural Anthropology”, World Architecture, 2021(03), p.135. (in Chinese)
2021 Huaqing Huang. “Architectural Anthropology across Regions: Trade, Technology and Space in the Perspective of Mobility”, Records of Yiwulv Lecture Series, Liaohai Press, 2021, pp. 87-113. (in Chinese)
2021 Huaqing Huang. “Approaching a Nouvel World: Through an Ontological Path”, Dancing with Architecture, Power Station of Art/PSA Shanghai, 2021, pp. 147-158. (in Chinese)
2020 Huaqing Huang. “Space as an Agent: Observations of Contemporary Rural Changes Based on a ‘Spatial Ethnographic’ Approach”, Architectural Journal, 2020(07), pp. 14-19. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
2020 Lei Sun, Ling Zhou, Huaqing Huang. “A Study on the Differentiation of Courtyard Archetype in the Design of Contemporary Residential Clusters: Case Studies of Residential Development in the Coastal Economically-Developed Areas Since 1978”, Architectural Journal, 2020(06), pp. 106-112. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
2020, Huaqing Huang. “Form, Void and Ontology: On Nanjing Art Center”, Time+Architecture, 2020(05), pp. 108-115. (in Chinese)
2020 Huaqing Huang. “’Migrating Settlements’ along the Silk Road: Caravan, Caravanserai, and its Spatial Archetype”, ArchiCreation, 2020(02), pp. 232-241. (in Chinese)
2020 Geng Li and Huaqing Huang. “Initiative: Towards a Community of Architectural Anthropology”, ArchiCreation, 2020(02), p. 21. (in Chinese)
2020 Shiyu Cai and Huaqing Huang*. “Architectural Anthropology at the Frontiers: Reflections on the 3rd Symposium on Architectural Anthropology”, ArchiCreation, 2020(02), pp. 16-20. (in Chinese)
2020 Huaqing Huang. “Platforms, Steps, Corridors and the Poetry of Idleness: Ambiguous Open Space in the School of Architecture of CEPT University, India”, Huazhong Architecture, 2020(02), pp. 20-24. (in Chinese)
2020 Huaqing Huang. “City and Architecture in the Post-global Age”, The Thinker, 2020(12), p. 31. (in Chinese)
2020 Xiao Liu, Yimeng Li and Huaqing Huang*. “Interdisciplinary Mapping: Review on the Nanjing University Workshop on Architectural Anthropology”, Study on Natural and Cultural Heritage, 2020(07), pp. 90-92. (in Chinese)
2019 Huaqing Huang. “The Rise and Fall of Middle Farmers: Accumulation and Differentiation in the Tea Consumption Revolution in China”, Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 40(1), pp. 48-63, DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2018.1506320. (SSCI)
2019 Huaqing Huang. “Architecture as Technology: Modern Centralized Tea Factories and the Modernization of Tea Industry in Rural China”, Cultural Heritage, Vol. 62, 2019(05), pp. 51-60. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
2019, Huaqing Huang and Ling Zhou. “"Architectural Design Going to the Countryside" in China in the 21st Century: A Literature Review Based on Mainstream Architectural Journals”, World Architecture, 2019(12), pp. 111-115. (in Chinese)
2019, Huaqing Huang and Ling Zhou. “"A Dwelled World: The Spatial Concepts of the Hani Houses in Yuanyang, Yunnan from an Anthropological Perspective”, New Architecture, 2019(06), pp. 78-83. (in Chinese)
2018, Huaqing Huang and Ling Zhou. “Architecture Going to the Countryside in the Context of Rural Revitalization: Review of the 1st Forum on Rural Revitalization in Nanjing University”, Time+Architecture, 2019(04), pp. 144-147.(in Chinese)
2018 Huaqing Huang. “From Ancestral Temple to Community Center: Reflections on the Social Benefits of Public Spatial Practice in Contemporary Rural China”, ArchiCreation, 2018(05), pp. 146-151. (in Chinese)
2016 Huaqing Huang and Jun Shan. “The Taste of Distinction: Legitimizing a Traditional Tea Factory during the Transformation of Tea Industry in Tongmu Village, China”, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, Vol. 278, pp. 37-65.
2015 Jun Shan, Huaqing Huang*. “A Study on Cave Settlements of Cappadocia in Light of Environmental Adaptation”, Architectural Journal, 2015(08), pp. 115-118. (in Chinese) (CSSCI)
Conference Papers
2021 ” From Border to Interface: Evaluating the Design Strategies in the Regeneration of Industrial Heritage Projects in Shanghai from the Perspective of Public Space - Public Life”, 14th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU 2021), Delft, the Netherlands, November 25-27.
2021 “Informal Place-making at the Urban-Rural Frontier: Socio-Spatial Strategies in Nanjing, China”, 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Nottingham, UK, August 31-September 3.
2019 “At the Brink of Urbanism: Grassroots Housing Strategies in a Peri-Urban Village in Nanjing”, RC21/International Sociological Association, Delhi, India, September 18-21.
2019 “Rural Regeneration at the Brink of Urbanization in Contemporary China: A Socio-Spatial Perspective”, International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU 2019), Jakarta, Indonesia, June 24-26.
2019 “‘New Home’ or ‘No Home’? Housing Relocation and its Social Impacts on the Indigenous Community in Contemporary Rural China”, Australasian Housing Researchers Conference (AHRC 2019), Adelaide, Australia, February 4-6. (Scopus Index)
2018 “Museum of Traditional Mongolian Medicine: An Ethnic-Cultural Hub Lying In-Between”, World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 28-30.
2018 “The Marriage of Socialism and Consumerism: Political Restructuring and the Transition of Building Paradigm in the ‘Rural Beautiful Movement’ in 21st Century China.” 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Coimbra, Portugal, October 3-7.
2017 “Ethnography of Space: A Dynamic Approach towards the Interpretation of Historic Heritages, with Djemaa el-Fna Square as a Case Study.” UIA 2017/ World Architects Congress, Seoul, South Korea, September 3-10.
2016 “Transformation of Rural Livelihoods with the Agro-industrialization and Capitalization of Tea Industry in Tongmu Village in China.” The 33rd International Geographical Congress (IGC), Beijing, China, August 21-25.
2016 “Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Tea Industry toward Agro-industrialization in Tongmu Village in Wuyi Mountains, China: A Socio- Architectural Perspective.” XIV World Congress of Rural Sociology, Toronto, Canada, August 10-14.
2016 “The Taste of Distinction: Legitimizing a Traditional Tea Factory during the Agroindustrialization of Tea Industry in Tongmu Village, China.” 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 17-20.
2016 “The Making of Distinction: How the Transformation of Traditional Tea Industry Shapes Social Stratification in Tongmu Village Wuyi Mountains, China.” Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 7-10.
2015 “Song-Gathering: A Materialized Oral Heritage in the Age of Tourism in Longji Zhuang Ethnic Village in China.” Inter-Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES); Bangkok, Thailand, July 15-17.
2015 “Architecture for the Regenerated Festival: A Song-Gathering Theater in the Reconstruction of Ethnic Identity in Longji Zhuang Ethnic Village in China.” Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF), Chicago, IL, USA, June 6-9.
- Thesis Design: Virtual Urban Museum (undergraduate)
- Architectural Design and its Principles (undergraduate)
- Digital Design (undergraduate)
- Frontiers of Architectural Anthropology (M. Arch, in English)
2020-2022 National Natural Science Fund for Young Scholars (Grant Number: 51908272), “A Study on the New Job-housing Typology in the Rural Area of Jiangnan Watery Region”, 230,000 RMB. Director.
2017-2020 National Keypoint Research and Invention Program (Grant Number: 2017YFC0702502), “Green Building System Inheriting Traditional Architectural Context in Economically Developed Area of China”, 2,000, 000 RMB. team member.
2017-2020 National Natural Science Fund (Grant Number: 51678287), “Research on Regional Construction System and Green Alternative Technology of Traditional Villages in Mountain Terraces Based on Ecology Recovery —Taking Yuanyang Hani Mountain Terrace Areas as Example”, 600,000 RMB. Chief team member.
2014-2017 National Natural Science Fund (Grant Number: 51378272), “Research on the Design Mode and Strategies of Environmental Adaptability Based on Architectural Regionality”, 800,000 RMB, Chief team member.
2019-2020 Research Funding of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, “Research on the Specialized Construction System of Traditional Houses in the Historical Towns and Villages in China”, 350,000 RMB. Chief team member.