Zhuozhang is an interdisciplinary urban scholar whose work spans architecture, urban planning, geography, cinema studies and critical theories. He completed his PhD in Architecture at the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts, Liverpool in 2022. In 2016, he graduated with an MA (distinction) in Urban Design at the University of Sheffield, and completed a BEng in Urban Planning at the Northwest University (China) with a First Class Scholarship in 2014.

Prior to Cambridge, he taught and guest lectured at several places, including Canterbury School of Architecture, Liverpool School of Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Hong Kong Academy of Film, Beijing Institute of Technology and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Alongside teaching, his recent research-led curatorial and/or artistic practice includes ‘Location, Imagination and Transformation (Design Trust Hong Kong, 2024)’, ‘Planting and Placemaking (UCA & Metal Culture UK, 2024)’, ‘Traces Under the Surface (Beijing, 2023)’, ‘Entre las Flores (Granada, 2022)’, and ‘Knowledge is Power (Tate Liverpool, 2020)’.