Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville and the founder of Temporary Office—an award-winning design practice exploring architecture and digital technology through the production of multimedia exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations, building proposals, and writings. By animating objects and systems that possess cultural familiarities to people in the contemporary society with emerging techniques and novel workflows, her work activates spaces to visualize and to modulate intangible forms and ephemeral imageries. Zhang has practiced in the US and Asia over 15 years, received recognitions in international competitions and design awards, featured in solo and group exhibitions at UC Berkeley, Florida Atlantic, 'T' Space, London Design Festival, Carnegie Museum of Arts, A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, and so on. She was a finalist of the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021, 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 Myron Holl Foundation, 2023). Zhang recently taught at University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a tenure-track faculty during 2017-2023. Zhang earned a BArch from Tsinghua University, an MArch with Honors from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MDes in Technology from Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she was the 2017 recipient of the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability.