Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer (they/them) is based in Tenochtitlán (Mexico City)  and Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) . As a trans(queer) and bi(racial/national) architectural designer and researcher, Audrey’s work (link to CV spreadsheet) analyses the instrumentalization of borders and binaries within heritage and futurism, and their potential to deconstruct and reconstruct socio-political territories.


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 (Mexico City) and a resident of the 2024-25 Bandung Residency (New York)—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).