Faculty

Jun Zou

Associate Professor

225-578-8464 | 406 Julian T. White Hall
junjiang@lsu.edu

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Jun Zou is an associate professor in the LSU School of Interior Design. She holds two Master of Architecture degrees: one focuses on Architectural Design Theory, and the other focuses on Digital Media. She joined LSU in 2006 and has tremendous teaching experience in teaching Color and Illumination I&II, Digital Drawings, and Interior Design Studio sequences from freshmen to senior levels. Zou’s pedagogical methods emphasize interdisciplinary, research-driven, and fostering leadership with design.

With her mixed background in Eastern and Western education systems and teaching and research experience, Zou has presented her research at regional, national, and international conferences and published papers in peer-reviewed academic journals. She has been invited internationally to give lectures and workshops, especially in recent years in China. She was awarded faculty research grants and Service-Learning Faculty Scholars Awards, was the Ruth Z. McCoy Professor in Interior Design, and was a co-PI of a state ATLAS grant.

In 2024, Zou received a Doctor of Design degree in Cultural Preservation. Her research interests are how cultural, social, and technological aspects affect interior/architectural design thinking and how they interact with design education, including regional vernacular dwellings and their relationship with sustainable design, digital technologies, and visualization in architectural/interior design and practice.

Zou’s research focuses on culturally inherited ecological philosophies and their relationship with environmental psychology and applied to environmental lighting. She recently received the Nuckolls Fund Grant for Lighting Education. It will deepen Zou’s research and pedagogy along the way.

Selected Publications

Zou, Jun. From Perspective Perception of Light to Lighting Design – A Pedagogical Research. Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2024.

Zou, Jun. “Light and Form – A Pedagogical Research.” Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2022.

Zou, Jun. “On Connotations of South-Facing Design Principle: Case studies of Light and Shadow in Interior Design.” Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2021.

Zou, Jun. “On ‘Pivot’ in Traditional Chinese Interior Architecture and Urban Planning.” Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2020.

Chen, Bo; Zou, Jun. “Discussing the Design of Humanized Place in Hospice Care Hospital from the Perspective of Interior Design.” Chinese Health Service Management, Issue 11 2019.11, Vo.36 pp 812-815.

Zou, Jun; Ma, Ke; Huang, Yamgan & Chen, Feihu. “Comparative study of the luminous environments of vernacular architectures in China and the United States at 30th parallel north.” Advances in Building Energy Research, Taylor & Francis, Issue 1 2019, Vo.13 pp. 101-121.

Zou, Jun. “’Light’ and ‘light’: Metaphysical Forces on Materiality.” Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2019, Jun, Hu, Sihan & Wang, Liqun. Common Area Redesign For Fullness of Senior Living. Proceedings of Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, 2018.

Zou, Yang. Chen, Feihu. & Zou, Jun. Integrated, Experiencing, Opened. ZHUANGSHI (Decoration, Chinese tier one professional journal published by Tsinghua University, top one university in China), (ISSN: 0412-3662), May 2011 Vo.216 (2-346), pp. 122-124.

Courses

ID 1711 Design Foundation I
ID 1712 Design Foundation II
ID 2750 Interior Design Studio I
ID 2751 Interior Design Studio II
ID 2770 Color and Illumination I
ID 3752 Interior Design Studio III
ID 3770 Color and Illumination II
ID 4720 Seminar in Interior Design
ID 4755 Interior Design Studio VI