Dr. Ying Zhou (AIA Assoc.) is an architect and urban theorist teaching at The University of Hong Kong. She is the current chair of Docomomo HK and is on the editorial board of Architectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Network. Her concern for architecture’s agency in the civicness of the city has compelled her current research into the conceptions and aspirations for the Urban Council complexes since the 1970s in Hong Kong.
She also researches the arts ecologies in East Asian cities through their spatial productions, and their intersections with heritage conservation, gentrification, and creative cities. Prior to Hong Kong, she taught and researched with the chair of Professor Kees Christiaanse at the Future Cities Laboratory of the Singapore-ETH Centre and the chair of Professors Herzog and de Meuron at the ETH Studio Basel Contemporary Cities Institute.
