Lily Chishan Wong

Lily Chishan Wong is a registered architect and assistant professor based in New York and Miami. Her interdisciplinary research and creative practice, beep beep LLC, are devoted to making strange sound, visualizing coloniality, and designing new human-plant relationships through architecture and ecological thinking. She was awarded the Harry der Boghosian Fellowship at Syracuse University in 2022-23, where she pursued her research and teaching project “Producing Nature” on the production of tropical and subtropical species as “houseplants” and their social and environmental dimensions.

Prior to returning to academia, Lily designed cultural buildings and landscapes at the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi in New York. She worked on urban public projects such as the Tampa Museum of Art and Reimaging La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. In addition to a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, Lily received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and a BA in philosophy from the New School.