Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) is thrilled to announce that Amelyn Ng has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Coordinator of the new Representation Sequence, beginning in the Fall 2024 semester. She will teach in the Architecture programs.

Amelyn Ng is an architect and researcher whose practice includes exhibition-making and cartooning and expands the narratives of building and spatial infrastructure by exploring how architecture functions as media and analyzing the information it contains and communicates. She is a graduate of Columbia GSAPP’s Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program. Her research has focused on Building Information Modeling (BIM), acts of imaging, and relationships between drawing, labor, and material systems in a global construction landscape.

With this hiring, GSAPP launches the Representation Sequence, a space to explore the potential for architectural representation to mobilize and intervene the politics of material and labor trajectories, complex interscalar relationships, and climate and ecological interdependency. As the new coordinator of the Representation Sequence, Ng’s extensive research and expertise will contribute to and further extend GSAPP’s leadership and long legacy of critical innovation in both using and understanding the limitations of visualization tools and techniques as a way of thinking, designing, and acting. With courses offered across the programs, the Representation Sequence initiates interdisciplinary dialogues across the School and more broadly addresses the dynamic ecosystem of human and more-than-human sensing capacities.

Amelyn Ng’s exhibitions include contributions to the 17th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales, the 2024 Copenhagen Architecture Festival, and M&A Architecture Radio. Her work was also included in Building Information at the TU Berlin Architekturmuseum, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital at EFPL Lausanne, and Software as Infrastructure at the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen. Prior to joining GSAPP, Ng was the 2019-21 Wortham Fellow at Rice University and has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Environments and Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, and is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia.