Publications

Books
2024
Book Chapters
2025
  • Macwillie, Elizabeth, Shawn Rickenbacker, and Zihao Zhang. "Strengthening Local Ecologies of Care Through Art and Activism in Harlem, NYC." In The Activist University: Models for Building Community Health, Justice, and Climate Action, edited by Jean Yang and Claire Latane. New York: Routledge, 2025. Forthcoming.
2024
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. "Before the After: Representing Climate Actions in the Age of AI." In Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action, edited by Nadia Amoroso. New York: Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404798.
2021
  • Cantrell, Bradley, Zihao Zhang, and Xun Liu. "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Landscape Architecture." In The Routledge Companion to Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, edited by Imdat As and Prithwish Basu, 232–47. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367824259-15.
2019
  • Gorman, Michael E., Zihao Zhang, Kristina D. Fauss, and Benjamin D. Bowes. "Collaboration Among Apparently Incommensurable Expertises: A Case Study of Combining Expertises and Perspectives to Manage Climate Change in Coastal Virginia." In The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies: Future Research Directions on Expertise and Experience, edited by Caudill et al., 255–72. Cham: Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14335-0_14.
Journal Articles
2024
  • Fernberg, Phillip, and Zihao Zhang. "Problematizing AI Omnipresence in Landscape Architecture." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 9 (June 2024): 746–55. https://doi.org/10.14627/537752069.
2023
  • Zhang, Zihao, Susan L. Epstein, Casey Breen, Sophia Xia, Zhigang Zhu, and Christian Volkmann. "Robots in the Garden: Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Landscapes." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 8 (May 2023): 264–72. https://doi.org/10.14627/537740028.
2022
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. "Mapping Landscape Architects' Expertise in Climate Adaptation with Design Research Projects Over the Past Two Decades." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 10, no. 2 (2022): 71–81. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-1-030034.
  • Chen, Alexander B., Jonathan L. Goodall, T. Donna Chen, and Zihao Zhang. "Flood Resilience through Crowdsourced Rainfall Data Collection: Growing Engagement Faces Non-Uniform Spatial Adoption." Journal of Hydrology 609 (June 2022): 127724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127724.
  • Zhang, Zihao. "Post-Digital Landscape and Post-Digital Culture." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 7 (June 2022): 26–35. https://doi.org/10.14627/537724004.
2021
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Bradley Cantrell. "Cultivated Wildness: Towards Technodiversity and Wildness in Machines." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 9, no. 1 (2021): 52–65. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-1-020040.
2020
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Xun Liu. "Control and Uncertainty: Towards a Paradigm of Prototyping." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 8, no. 4 (2020): 10–25. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-1-020032.
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. "The Cybernetic Environment as a New Frontier." Lunch Journal 14 (2020): 149.
  • Zhang, Zihao. "Cybernetic Environment: A Historical Reflection on System, Design, and Machine Intelligence." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 5 (2020). https://doi.org/10.14627/537690004.
2019
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Ben Bowes. "The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Landscape Design: A Case Study in Coastal Virginia, USA." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 4 (2019): 2–9. https://doi.org/10.14627/537663001.
  • Davies-Vollum, K. Sian, Zihao Zhang, and Andrews Agyekumhene. "Impacts of Lagoon Opening and Implications for Coastal Management: Case Study from Muni-Pomadze Lagoon, Ghana." Journal of Coastal Conservation 23, no. 2 (2019): 293–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-018-0658-1.
  • Mondschein, Andrew, Zihao Zhang, and Mona El Khafif. "Community-Centered Urban Sensing: Smart Engaged Planning and Design in a Dysfunctional Urban Context." International Journal of E-Planning Research 8, no. 4 (2019): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.2019100101.
2018
  • Cantrell, Bradley, and Zihao Zhang. "A Third Intelligence." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 6, no. 2 (2018): 42–51. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-20180205.
  • Zhang, Zihao, Andrew Mondschein, and Mona El Khafif. "Human-Tool Assemblage: Designers in the Big Data World." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 2 (May 2018): 397–405. https://doi.org/10.14627/537642042.
2017
  • Zhang, Zihao. "Human Factors in Responsive Landscapes: Importance and Method." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 2 (2017): 10–17. https://doi.org/10.14627/537629002.
Conference Proceedings
2024
  • Chen, G. Q., N. Kashyap, Z. Zhang, Y. Kucheva, M. Bobker, and Z. Zhu. "Predicting Building Energy Efficiency with Multi-Task Learning and Classification on Multimedia Data." International Conference on Smart Multimedia, March 28–30, 2024.
2023
  • Zhang, Zihao. "On Laboratories and Machines: Interfacing with Landscape Processes." Proceedings of CELA 2023 Annual Conference, 2023.
  • Karkut, Nicholas, Alexey Kiriluk, Zihao Zhang, and Zhigang Zhu. "Vegetation Coverage and Urban Amenity Mapping Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning." International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering, 2023.
2020
  • Zhang, Zihao, and Xun Liu. "Teaching Design Computation in the Paradigm of Cybernetic Environment." CELA 2020 Conference Proceedings, 2020.
2019
  • Zhang, Pinggui, Xiaolong Wang, and Zihao Zhang. "Automated Frozen Soil Observation Based on Micro-Radar Technology." 2019 International Conference on Meteorology Observations (ICMO), 1–4. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMO49322.2019.9026161.
2018
  • Cantrell, Bradley, and Zihao Zhang. "Choreographing Intelligent Agents." 107th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Black Box, 2018. https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.1.
  • El Khafif, Mona, Zihao Zhang, and Andrew Mondschein. "Mapping the Nocturnal City: Community-Centered Urban Sensing, Charlottesville, VA." 3rd City Street Conference Proceedings, 73–85. 2018.
Book Reviews
2024
Essays and Op-Eds
2025
  • Zhang, Shurui, and Zihao Zhang. "Resilient Schist: Crafting Harlem’s Corridor of Art, Culture, and Ecology." New York Amsterdam News, January 30, 2025. amsterdamnews.com.
  • Zhang, Zihao. "AI in Landscape Architecture: Beyond the Myth of AI-Human Rivalry." Landezine, January 6, 2025. landezine.com.