Jia Weng is an architectural designer, curator, and researcher. She recently completed her Ph.D. in architectural history and theory at Yale University, where she also earned a certificate in Film and Media Studies. Her dissertation, Architecture and Climatic Power: Control Valves, Fluid Territories, and Circulation in the Globalizing China, 1919–1995, examines how control valves—devices that regulate air and water—reshaped architectural form by fusing communication technologies with environmental systems. Introducing the concept of climatic power, it reframes architecture as a mediator of planetary forces such as heat, waste, and material flows. Her work received the Carter Manny Research Award and support from the Franke Interdisciplinary and MacMillan International Dissertation Fellowships. Jia holds degrees from Tsinghua University (B.Arch), the University of Michigan (M.U.D.), and Yale University (M.E.D.). Her earlier thesis on the Three Gorges Dam won the David Taylor Memorial Prize for Architectural Criticism. Before her doctoral studies, she practiced architecture at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York. Jia was a research affiliate with the Research Network of Philosophy and Technology and a sectional curator for the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Her design work has been recognized by the Jacques Rougerie Competition and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Syracuse.