audreytsengfisch@gmail.com
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Education
2019 – 22
Master of Architecture, Yale University
2013 – 18
Hons. Bachelor of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo
Work
2024 – present
Head of Research, Fundación Fernando Romero, Mexico City
2022 – 24
Senior Writer/Researcher, Adjaye Associates, New York, London, Accra
2020
George Nelson Fellowship, Yale University School of Architecture (YSoA), Mexico City
2019
Architectural Designer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), New York
2018
Design Assistant, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo
2017
Design Assistant, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, New York
2016
Design Assistant, de Architekten Cie., Amsterdam
2016
Design Assistant, Theis + Khan Architects, London
2015
Design Assistant, Philippe Rahm architects, Paris
Awards / Grants
2024
Resident, The Bandung Residency (Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) + Museum of
Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New York
Freedom is a Place
2021 – 22
Honorable Mention, Steedman Fellowship (Washington University)
Stewarding Chinampas: Co-speculating Our Many Worlds
2021 – 22
John W. Storrs Scholarship, Yale University
2020
Grantee, Graham Foundation
Coordinating Editor for Paprika! Vol. 6
2019
Grantee, Graham Foundation
Publisher for Paprika! Vol. 5
2015 – 18
International Experience Award, University of Waterloo
Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo
2015 – 18
Co-op Grant, University of Waterloo
Paris and Tokyo
2013 – 18
Ontario Student Opportunity Grant / Ontario Student Grant, Ontario Student
Assistance Program
Featured
forthcoming
Producer, NYU Kimmel Windows (New York)
Working Bodies curated by Red Canary Song
forthcoming
Artist, Center for Architecture (New York)
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian
Feminist Architecture curated by M.C. Overholt and Dr. Stephen Vider
2023
Designer, Storefront for Art + Architecture (New York)
Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In curated
by Yin Q and Chong Gu
2023
Research Coordinator and Screenwriter, Venice Biennale Architecttura (Venice)
“Lost Knowledge Systems” at the The Laboratory of the Future curated by Lesley
Lokko
2021 – 22
Author, Yale Retrospecta 45
“Residue as Resistance”
2020
Artist, Routledge Publication
WASTE MATTERS: Adaptive Reuse for Production Landscapes edited Nikole Bouchard
2019 – 20
Author, Yale Retrospecta 43
“Saliocene”
Events
forthcoming
Presenter, Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference (Boston)
Critical Cartographies of Asian Bodywork, Sexuality, and Desire invited by Dr.
Elena Shih
(Brown University)
2024
Panelist, queer space working group (qswg) + ETH Zürich + Princeton University (Zürich)
Transient Homemaking
2023
Speaker, Princeton National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) +
queer space working group (qswg) (Princeton)
DINNER DINNER DINNER!
2023
Founder and Coordinator, Adjaye Associates (Accra, London, New York)
AA Empathy Initiative
2021
Presenter, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) / European
Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) Teacher’s Conference (New York, Oslo)
Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action
2021
Participant, Yale's Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) + Tsai Center for
Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)
Planetary Solutions Generator
2021
Collaborator, Yale MED Working Group for Anti Racism
Spatial Narratives of Solidarity featuring Mahdi Sabbagh and Linda Quiquivix
2020
Coordinator, Yale's Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture
Students (Yale NOMAS)
Decompression Sessions
2020
Collaborator, Yale MED Working Group for Anti Racism
POLICING featuring Jaime Amparo Alves, Arissa Hall, Philip V. McHarris, and the Black
Students for Disarmament at Yale
2020
Collaborator, Yale MED Working Group for Anti Racism
ARCHIVE featuring Cierra Chenier (Noir ‘N Nola), Mel Isidor (A Voice at the Table), and
Amrita Raja (Counter Canon)
2020
Collaborator, Yale MED Working Group for Anti Racism
COMMONS featuring Lauren Hudson, Sunny Iyer, Rachel Valinsky, and Dan Taeyoung
Teaching
2024
Guest Design Studio Critic, Syracuse Architecture
A Seed for a Song with Christina Chi Zhang
2024
Guest Foundation of Architecture Critic, Yale School of Architecture
Foundations of Architecture with Nikole Bouchard and Jerome Tyron
2023
Guest Seminar Critic, Syracuse Architecture
Cities of Stories: Mapping Contemporary Urban Landscapes with Christina Chi Zhang
2023
Guest Foundation of Architecture Critic, Yale School of Architecture
Foundations of Architecture with Nikole Bouchard and Jerome Tyron
2022
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Yale School of Architecture
Architectural Design I: First-Year Core Studio with Nikole Bouchard
2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Architecture
Urban Century: Theorizing Global Urbanism with Dr. Vyjayanthi Rao
2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Architecture
From Shigeru Ban to IKEA: Designing Refugee Camps with Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer
Publication
forthcoming
Author, OASE Journal Issue no. 122 (TU Delft)
Seeding Sovereignty, co-written with Samar Halloum
forthcoming
Author, Pidgin Issue no. 33 (Princeton University)
Saliocene: Counter-Extractive Infrastructures in Salar de Uyuni
forthcoming
Author, Chutney Magazine Issue no. 4 (London)
Fugitive Homemaking in the Borderlands, co-written with Chong Gu
forthcoming
Author, e-flux (New York)
Transient Homemaking with Red Canary Song, co-written with Chong Gu
forthcoming
Author, Journal Safar Issue no. 9 (Beirut)
Homemaking as Resistance, co-written with Chong Gu
2023
Author, Green Revolution Cookbook edited by Dr. Anthony Acciavatti (Yale University)
Maize and Rice
2023
Editor, Storefront for Art + Architecture (New York)
Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In curated by Yin Q and Chong Gu
2022
Author, POOL Issue no. 7 (UCLA)
Chinampas: From a Grounded to Floating State
2022
Editor, Paprika! Vol. 8 issue 3 (Yale University)
Transient Solidarity with Chong Gu
2020 – 21
Coordinating Editor, Paprika! Vol. 6 (Yale University)
2020 – 21
Publisher, Paprika! Vol. 5 & 6 (Yale University)
2020 – 21
Editor, Yale School of Architecture (Yale University)
North Gallery Publication
2021
Producer, Paprika! In the Pit (Yale University)
featuring Justin Garrett Moore, Dr. Ayana Johnson, Bryan Lee, Jennifer Newsom, Ozayr
Saloojee, Dami Olufowoshe, Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi, Billie
Tsien, Tod Williams, among others.