Gary Huafan He is a scholar and architect residing in Hangzhou, China. He holds a Ph.D. from the Yale University School of Architecture and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and a B. Arch from Cornell University. His writings focus on modern architecture and ornament in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular interest in architecture's relationship to its neighboring fields of technology, philosophy, and the natural and social sciences. He's essays have been published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architecture (T&F) and Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). He has co-edited the volume of essays Kent Bloomer: Nature as Ornament (Yale University Press, 2021) as well as Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation (Routledge Press, 2023). A first monograph, entitled Ornament and Class: Modern Architecture and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie, is forthcoming (Routledge Press, 2025).

He currently serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Archaeology at Zhejiang University, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in design and architectural history.

Contact: 

garyhhe@gmail.com
garyhhe@zju.edu.cn