Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer /they/them/elle/ is an architectural designer, writer, and researcher currently based in Mexico City.
Their work analyses the instrumentalization of borders and binaries within heritage* and futurism**, and their potential to deconstruct and reconstruct socio-political territories.
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Audrey is the co-founder of Rehearsing with Chong Gu, a collaboration dedicated to framing otherness in transience, and currently serves as the head of research at Fundación Fernando Romero (Mexico City), where their work focuses on how migration, territorial relations, and geopolitics have shaped Mexico as a borderland.
They were a 2024-25 resident of the Bandung Residency (New York), co-organized by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). Previously, Audrey led and coordinated research globally at Adjaye Associates (Accra, London & New York) and held architectural design roles in firms such as SOM (New York), Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo), Philippe Rahm architectes (Paris), among others.
Their work has been
featured in Venice Biennale Architecttura, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the ACSA/EAAE,
and published in Paprika!, POOL, Yale Retrospecta, and more. Audrey has collaborated with various organization, including Yale & Princeton NOMAS, queer space working group, Red Canary Song, etc.
Audrey holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Master of Architecture from Yale University (New Haven), where they received the George Nelson Fellowship for their research Stewarding Chinampas: Co-speculating Our Many Worlds (Mexico City).
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Architectural heritage unravels the futuristic potential for both violence—of displacement, dispossession, and erasure—and abundance—of care, solidarity, and interdependencies.
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Architectural futurism often uses heritage as a foundation for imagining worlds that either authenticate or derive alternatives to colonial, hegemonic orders.