Locality: Work by Li Li 2009-2025
March 2027- Publisher: Artifice, London.
This forthcoming book reflects my sustained contributions to architectural theory and critical discourse. It examines the work of Chinese architect Li Li within the broader context of China’s rapid economic development, urbanization, and globalization, framing “locality” through the interrelated lenses of site, tectonics, cultural specificity, and economic conditions. The volume will constitute the first global publication dedicated to a Chinese architect who has developed his practice entirely within a domestic educational and professional context.
Space Within and Around: Visual Abstraction, Linguistic Analogy, and the Return to the Origin.
2026- Publisher: The China Architecture and Building Press
- Language: Chinese and English
- Release Date: May 2026
- ISBN: 978-7-112-30845-3
A bilingual book in English and Chinese, contracted with the esteemed Chinese Architecture and Building Press, China’s leading architecture publisher. This work examines Formalist theories of architectural space, paired with practical pedagogical examples available online. Serving as an essential studio companion, it bridges theory and design operations. Its bilingual nature and the scarcity of similar literature will significantly impact architectural design education.
Recycling plastics: Middle school students create solutions during a summer camp
2020Alkeman, E., Capraro, M. M., Creasy, T., Fleming, K., Hong, L.,Weiling, H., & *Williams, A., (2019). Recycling plastics: Middle school students create solutions during a summer camp. Journal of European STEM Education, 4(1). DOI: 10 .20897/ejsteme/6341
The Zoom Function
2020Guest Editors: James R. Ball III, Weiling He, Louis G. Tassinary, Special Themed Section “The Zoom Function” in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2020)
Cuboids and Planetoids
2019Michael Tate, Weiling He. Proceedings of the 35th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Chinese translation of The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely by Anthony Vidler
2018- Publisher: 中国建筑工业出版社; 1st edition (January 1, 2018)
- Language: Chinese
- ISBN-10: 7112213339
- ISBN-13: 978-7112213337
1:1 Scale Transformation
2016The 32nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Cal Polytechnic University, Sam Luis Obispo, California
Meg Jackson, Weiling He
Materiality and Scale: Enclosure, Fashion Theater, and Para-sites
2015The 31st National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
The University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Design Translated?
2012AIA Forward: Process
The Architecture and Design Journal of the National Associates Committee, AIA, vol. 112
A 'Fashion' Design Project: Wearable and Moveable Architecture
2010MADE: Design Education and the Art of Making
The 26th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Points of View
2009But Also, We are a Discipline
The 25th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Proceedings
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The Notion of Body in John Hejduk’s Poetry and Architecture
2008Time + Architecture
Tongji University Press, Shanghai, China
ISSN: 1005-684X
Phenomenology in Design Process
2008Time + Architecture
Tongji University Press, Shanghai, China
ISSN: 1005-684X
The Space and Materiality of Drawing
2008We Have Never Been Pre-disciplinary
The 24th International Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Digital Guise: The Misleading Ways of Drawing in AutoCAD that May Limit Design Creativity
2007Bi-annual Meeting of the Design Communication Association
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Interpreting Architectural Space through Camera Movement
2007CAAD Futures 07
Sydney, Australia
Weiling He, Wei Yan
Drawing Flatness
2007Fresh Air
The 95th ACSA Annual Meeting
Drexel University & University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Space Emerged from Music
2007Translation
The 23rd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savanna, Georgia
Flatness through Camera: The Implications of Camera Movement in the Digital Reconstruction of the Diamond Museum
2006Synthetic Landscapes | Digital Exchange
ACADIA 2006 International Conference
Louisville, Kentucky
A Passage
2006Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry
The 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
From Mondrian’s Diamonds to Hejduk’s Diamonds: Paintings as Means and Ends for Spatial Construction
2005The Art of Architecture/The Science of Architecture
The 93rd ACSA Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois
When Does a Sentiment Become an Architectural Concept? Otherness in Hejduk’s Wall House 2
2005Journal of Architecture, Routledge, London, UK, April 2005
ISSN 1360-2365
Otherness in Hejduk’s Poetry and Architecture
2004ACSA Central Regional Meeting
Elgin, Illinois
The Housing of Meaning: The Performance of Houses in Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern
2003ACSA International Conference
Helsinki, Finland
Modalities of Poetic Syntax in the Work of John Hejduk
2003The 4th International Space Syntax Symposium
London, UK
Path: An Narrative of Ju Dou in the Architectural Medium
2002The West Regional ACSA Annual Meeting
San Luis Obispo, California
Graph, Geometry and Language: A Design Triangle
2001The 3rd International Space Syntax Symposium
Atlanta, Georgia
From Water System to Street System: The Stable Social Logic in the Changing Urban Form
2002UIA Congress 2002
Berlin, Germany
Technological Maximization and Training of Sensual Fundamentals in Architectural Basic Course
2000HKIA Journal no.25
Jia Beisi, Weiling He