Linda Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo School of Architecture (Canada), Principal Architect, Studio Pararaum (Toronto—Zürich)
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group
Part of the MIT Spring 2025 Architecture Lecture Series.
Linda Zhang (she/her) is an architect (OAA, AIA), interior designer (NCIDQ), creative technologist and educator. She co-founded Studio Pararaum / Para Lab and is an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her spatial practice and research supports community ownership and anti-displacement through architectural co-design, memory and heritage technology. Since she returned to Tkaronto’s Chinatown in 2018, she has been documenting Chinatown East and West by 3D scanning the neighbourhoods’ built environments. From these 3D models, she creates architectural memory technologies (AR, VR, AI) and co-design platforms to build community power in Chinatown through co-imagination and co-remembering to envision a more generative, affordable and culturally meaningful shared future(s) for all.
This lecture will be held in person in Long Lounge, 7-429 and streamed online.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held Thursdays at 6 PM ET in 7-429 (Long Lounge) and streamed online unless otherwise noted. Registration required to attend in-person. Register here or watch the webcast on Youtube.
