Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer (they/them) is based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). As a trans(queer) and bi(racial/national) architectural designer, writer, and researcher, Audrey’s work explores the interplay between heritage and futurism. Viewing them as sociopolitical constructs—one which stimulates both destruction and reconstruction of built environments—they have meditated (link to CV spreadsheet) on the borders and binaries within these spaces.


Architectural heritage unravels the futuristic potential for both violence—of displacement, dispossession, and erasure—and abundance—of care, solidarity, and interdependencies.

Architectural futurism often uses heritage as a foundation for imagining worlds that either authenticate or derive alternatives to colonial, hegemonic orders.


Audrey seeded Rehearsing with Chong Gu, a collaboration dedicated to framing otherness in transience. Currently, they are the head of an architectural research institute on the US-MX border and a resident of the 2024-25 Bandung Residency—co-organized by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). Previously, Audrey worked as a senior writer/researcher at Adjaye Associates (Accra, London & New York) and held positions as an architectural designer in firms such as SOM (New York), Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo), Philippe Rahm architectes (Paris), among others. Their work has been published in Paprika!, POOL , Yale Retrospecta, and featured in places including Venice Biennale Architecttura, Storefront for Art and Architecture, ACSA/EAAE, and more. They have collaborated with various organization, including Yale & Princeton NOMAS, the Queer Space Working Group, Red Canary Song and received the George Nelson Fellowship for their research on Stewarding Chinampas: Co-speculating Our Many Worlds (Mexico City).