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Amelyn Ng

Amelyn Ng (MS. CCCP ‘19) is an architect, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Working across exhibitions, publications, and a parallel engaged creative practice, she addresses how media shape architecture’s material realities, politics, and practices. By attending to the gap between representation and reality, her work troubles the default settings of architectural tools and systems, and seeks alternate narratives to the status quo of building.

Amelyn is a co-founder of Friends Making Work, a design collective based in NYC. Building on themes of discard, salvage, and planetary extraction, Friends Making Work has exhibited at the AIA New York Center for Architecture (US), Bangkok Design Week (TH), VI PER Gallery (CZ), Rhode Island School of Design (US), and the Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (CL). Amelyn has also participated in Exhibit Columbus, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 17th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales. Amelyn was a 2019-2021 Wortham Fellow and 2021-2022 Kinder Scholar at Rice University, a faculty recipient of the 2023 Design Research Seed Fund at RISD, and a 2026 Fellow at the Institute for Public Architecture.

Amelyn’s writing has appeared in e-flux Architecture, The Avery Review, Thresholds, the Journal of Architectural Education, Perspecta, PLAT, Perspectives in Architecture & Urbanism, Cultural Politics, Limn, Materia Arquitectura, and Architectural Review Asia Pacific, as well as in the edited volume Drawing Codes (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.

Amelyn 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. She is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia.

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Course	Semester	Title	Student Work	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH4023‑1	Fall 2026	Architectural Drawing & Representation I		Amelyn Ng, Ekin Bilal, Maria Alejandra Linares Trelles, Ray Wang, Nick Roseboro		M.Arch I Only Architecture Required Visual Studies* Representation	113 Avery + 504 Avery, 505 Avery, 600 Avery, 200 Buell North, 300 Buell North, 300 Buell South M 9 AM - 1 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	10586
ARCH6982‑1	Fall 2026	Planetary Media		Amelyn Ng	Syllabus	ALL GSAPP Representation	408 Avery TU 11 AM - 1 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	10592

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