Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer

audreytsengfisch@gmail.com
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Education

2019 – 22
Master of Architecture, Yale University (United States)

2013 – 18
Hons. Bachelor of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo (Canada)

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.