Peter Wong
Peter Wong became Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture in 2026.
Peter Wong served as Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught architectural design, history, and theory since 1988. His scholarly contributions include a translation of Vittorio Gregotti’s treatise, Inside Architecture (w/ Francesca Zaccheo, MIT, 1996) and a critical account of Shanghai shikumen housing in the article “Chinese Puzzle” published in Diversity and Design (Routledge, 2015). These writings draw from research in urban housing, modernist building vocabulary, and the means by which architectural space is understood, interpreted, and defined. Currently, his work investigates spatial perception in domestic interior environments with the aid of eye-tracking hardware and software to reveal areas of visual attention.
Peter received his degrees from the University of Washington (BA 1981) and the University of Pennsylvania (MArch 1985) and is a licensed architect in the states of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He has received design awards from the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and the Charlotte Chapter of the AIA. He teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate programs and is a contributing member in the School’s semester Rome, Italy program.