Christina Zhang is a designer and educator who works and teaches at the intersection of architecture and social justice. Her current research and built work study storytelling, memory-making, and built interventions in post-traumatic cities. Before joining Lehigh University, she has taught design studios and research seminars at Yale University and Syracuse University.
Christina’s broader work focuses on community-driven architectural solutions in the face of conflict, violence, and displacement. She co-founded Ideation Worldwide, a non-profit organization through which she initiated and directed the construction of a refugee-run learning center in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. She has also practiced architecture professionally at EFFEKT Arkitekter in Copenhagen; Studio MM Architect in New York City; Turner Brooks Architect in New Haven; and Atelier Deshaus in Shanghai.
Christina holds a B.A. and an M.Arch from Yale University, where she was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and the AIA Henry Adams Medal.