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First Name
Dijia
Last Name
Chen
Country
Australia
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Affiliation
University of Melbourne
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https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/1088564-dijia-chen
Keywords
architectural history, architectural theory, visual culture, east asian studies, curatorial studies, urban history, transnational cultural studies, microhistory
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About Me

Dr. Dijia Chen is an architectural historian/designer/curator/educator with educational and professional backgrounds in Shanghai, Berlin, Melbourne, and Central Virginia. She is currently Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests center on architectural representations and transnational modernism in and across East Asia. She has received fellowships and grants from organizations including the American Society of Learned Studies (ACLS), Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), and Thomas Jefferson Memorial Fund. She has guest lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, City College of New York. She has co-authored a book and her papers are published in Architectural Theory Review, Log, Architecture & Culture, and GTA Papers, among others.

Recent Publications
  • Chen, Dijia. “Made in an Exhibition: The Unintended Advancement of University-Affiliated Chinese Architects”. Architecture and Culture Vol.12 (Forthcoming, 2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2024.2407241
  • Chen, Dijia, and Jiawei Wu. “The Jury and the Workshop: Crits in Architectural Education in China”. GTA Papers: Crit (2024), 56-71. 
  • Chen, Dijia. “Appropriating Aldo Rossi: the Displaced ‘Afterlife’ of L’architettura della città in the Chinese Context Since 1986”. In: Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture (London: Bloomsburry, 2022). http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350257757.ch-017
  • Chen, Dijia. “Resolving the Theoretically Irreconcilable: Aldo Rossi’s Giant Kitchenware Models as Generative Object–Subjects.” Architectural Theory Review 24, no. 3 (2020): 293-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2021.1946573.
  • Chen, Dijia. “On the (Mis) Use of Critical Discourse in Architecture: “Experimental Criticism” and its Entanglement with Postreform Art Movement in China.” Histories of Postwar Architecture 4, no. 7 (2020): 146-168. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/11429.
  • Chen, Dijia. “The Journey of an Image”. Log 51 (2020): 137-144. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27092913.
  • Chen, Dijia. “Accidental Affinities in the Contact Zone: Envisioning Public Well-being in Michael Sorkin’s Urban Imaginaries for China”. 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, In Commons (2022), 201-206. https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.111.28
  • Tan, Zheng, Jiawei Jiang, & Dijia Chen. Neighborhood Paradigm: Urbanism in the Perspective of Technology and Culture. (Shanghai: Tongji University Press. 2021).
  • Chen, Dijia. “Voicing through the mediated self: the democratisation of China’s architectural discourse on ABBS online forum in the early 2000s”. in: Research Encounters via Architecture Methods (2021): 73-78. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16601423.v2
  • Chen, Dijia. “Overseas Exhibitionary Events as the Dictator of Contemporary Chinese Architecture: “TU MU: Young Architecture of China” in a World Media System”. In: Proceedings of the ConCave Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research, March 2020 (Atlanta: School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020): 87-94. https://doi.org/10.35090/gatech/79
Media Coverage
Country Focus
China, Germany, Italy, USA
Expertise by Geography
Asia, China, East Asia, Germany, United States
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Pedagogy, Sexuality, Urban History