Amelyn Ng

Amelyn Ng (MS. CCCP ‘19) is an architect, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Prior to joining GSAPP, she taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Rice University, and the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Environments and Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, and is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia.

Ng’s research and exhibition practice explores architecture as media and environmental matter as information, and seeks alternate narratives to the status quo of building. She is particularly interested in inventories, waste, and critical material organization. Exhibitions include D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices at the Bayard Ewing Building Gallery in Providence and Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-time to Geological Time at VI PER Gallery in Prague.

Ng has contributed to the 17th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2024 Copenhagen Architecture Festival, and M&A Architecture Radio. Her work on building information models and the entanglement of drawing with labor and material systems was included in Building Information at the TU Berlin Architekturmuseum, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital at EFPL Lausanne, and Software as Infrastructure at the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen.

Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, e-flux, Cultural Politics, Perspecta, PLAT, Disc Journal, Architectural Review Asia Pacific, and POWER: Infrastructure in America. Her cartoons have been published by the Architect’s Newspaper, Arena, and the New York Review of Architecture.