Catty Dan Zhang



Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Architecture

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2024

Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville (USA), and the founder of Temporary Office— award-winning design practice exploring architecture and digital technology through the production of exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations, buildings, and writings. Her work experiments with the multiplicity of techniques and mediums, translating ordinary objects into performative and synergistic systems to visualize and to modulate ephemeral forms. Zhang was a finalist of the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021. She was awarded the first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture 37 competition and is the author of the most recent volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series titled “Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids” (Steven Holl Foundation & Station Hill Press, 2023).

Last Known Location:

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America


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