Amelyn Ng

Amelyn Ng (MS. CCCP ‘19) is an architect, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. She has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Rice University, and the University of Melbourne. She holds a Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from GSAPP, a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne, and is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia.

Amelyn is a co-founder of Friends Making Work, a design collective based in NYC. Working at the intersection of architecture and media studies, her research and creative practice contend with relationships between matter and representation, and seek alternate narratives to the status quo of building. Ng has exhibited in Prague, Providence, Melbourne, and New York, and has contributed to larger exhibitions including Exhibit Columbus (2025 University Design Research Fellowship), XXII Bienal de Aquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, 2024 Copenhagen Architecture Festival, 17th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales, 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Building Information at TU Berlin Architekturmuseum, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital at EFPL Lausanne, Institution Building at CIVA, Fulfilled at OSU, A Weekend Affair in Singapore, and Sonic Dust at M&A Architecture Radio.

While her creative practice engages themes of waste, material economy, and planetary extraction, her research examines the socio-technical relations of architectural representation with a focus on entanglements between labor, technology, and material conditions. Her writing has appeared in Cultural Politics, Perspecta, e-flux, the Journal of Architectural Education, PLAT, MONU, Critical Planning Journal, Architectural Review Asia Pacific, Assemble Papers, and Disc Journal, as well as in the edited volumes, Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (2024), Software Into Hardware (forthcoming) and Waste Collection: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Discard Studies (forthcoming). Her cartoons have been published by the Architect’s Newspaper, kuš!, Pigdin, Arena, and the New York Review of Architecture.