Tsz Yan Ng

ACADIA Board of Directors, member, January 2019 – December 2020

Ng, Tsz Yan. ARCC New Researcher Award 2020. Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Valencia, Spain.

Public Lecture Series, Department of Design, San José University. Public lecture, (forthcoming, Feb, 2020)

Ng, Tsz Yan. Homing the Machine Symposium, Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture. Panel: Material Culture, Presentation and panel discussion, 2020. www.homingthemachine.com

Ng, Tsz Yan, with Mehrdad Hadighi. “Lafayette 148 Shantou, China,” in 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition. University of Buffalo, April 1, 2020. Group exhibition.

Ng, Tsz Yan. With Mehrdad Hadighi. “Twisted Concrete Codes.” Drawing Codes, Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representations, Vol. II, Drawing.

Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, Jan. 22-Feb. 23, 2019. Drawing. 

University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, March 18-April 22, 2019.

University of Miami School of Architecture, August 19-October 9, 2019.

University of Washington in Seattle, February 3-March 13, 2020.

CCA (California College of Arts), March 30-April 17, 2020.

Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, affiliate member since 2019.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, Victor Li. “De:Molding: Concrete 3D Printing for High Performance Building Envelopes,” and “Print, Tilt, Lift_Concrete 3D Printing for Precast Assemblies,” in From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete. Liberty Research Annex Gallery, Taubman College, Nov 1-30, 2019. Coincides with Symposium of the same title. Installation of full-scale prototypes and videos.

Wilson, Riley, “Researchers share innovative ideas in concrete for a more sustainable future.” Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. November 18, 2019. On-line: https://cee.engin.umich.edu/stories/researchers-share-innovative-ideas-in-concrete-for-a-more-sustainable-future/

Aldeghi, Greta. “Uni students create 3D felt sculptures with a robotic arm.” Design Wanted, October 1, 2019. On-line: http//www.designwanted.com/tech/uni-students-3d-felt/ (on project Robotic Needle Felting)

Robinson, Dan. “An innovative approach to 3D felt manufacturing has been developed.” Bimstore. September 23, 2019. On-line: http:www.bimstore.co/resources/3d-felt (on project Robotic Needle Felting)

Aouf, Rima Sabina. “3D printing meets felt in new additive manufacturing technique.” Dezeen, September 12, 2019. On-line: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/12/robotic-needle-felting-taubman-college-design/. (on project Robotic Needle Felting)

Kolb, Jaffer. “Drawing Codes ironically gets the rules all wrong.” The Architects Newspaper, February 22, 2019. On line: https://archpaper.com/2019/02/drawing-codes-cooper-union-review/ (on project Twisted Concrete Codes)

“ACSA Announces 2019 Architectural Education Award Winners,” Architect, February 8, 2019. On line: https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/acsa-announces-2019-architectural-education-award-winners_o (Faculty Design Award Honorable Mentions for project Robotic Needle Felting)

Ng, Tsz Yan. From Lab to Site: Innovations in Concrete. Group exhibition (coincides with symposium of the same title) at Liberty Research Annex Gallery, Taubman College, November 1-30, 2019. Includes full-scale prototypes as well as videos and images of projects from seven teams. Exhibition includes a debut performance Patty & Jan by Brandon Clifford and Cemex Global R&D. See archive: https://www.flickr.com/photos/taubmancollege/albums/72157711657150052

Ng, Tsz Yan and Wes McGee. “Print, Tilt, Lift_Concrete 3D Printing for Precast Assemblies.” AIA Upjohn Research Initiative, Current, Dec. 2017-Nov. 2019

Ng, Tsz Yan and Asa Peller. “Robotic Needle Felting.” ACSA 2019, Black Box: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era, Pittsburgh, 2019. Session: Material Frontiers. Presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Externalities, of influence and effects.” Cranbrook Academy of Art. Public Lecture Series, 2019

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Externalities, of influence and effects.” Cranbrook Academy of Art. Public Lecture Series, 2019

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, and Asa Peller. “Robotic Needle Felting.” Faculty Design Award 2019, Honorable Mention, ACSA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2019.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, and Asa Peller. “Robotic Needle Felting.” Shortlisted for Dezeen Award 2019, category Workplace Design.

Panel moderator, session Formworks, ACADIA 2019, Ubiquity and Autonomy, 2019, Austin, Texas.

Risen, Clay and Wanda Lau, editor. “R+D Awards, Robotic Needle Felting.” Architect Magazine, v. 107, no. 8, July 2018, pp. 116-117. On-line version: http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/r-d-awards/citation-robotic-needle-felting-stitches-new-possibilities_o (on project Robotic Needle Felting)

Keane, Katharine. “This Week in Tech.” Architect Magazine, July 27, 2018. On-line: https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/this-week-in-tech-the-worlds-50-smartest-cities-in-2018_o (on project Robotic Needle Felting)

Ng, Tsz Yan and Wes McGee. “Robotic Needle Felting.” ACADIA 2018, Re/calibration: on imprecision and infidelity, Mexico City, MEX, 2018.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, and Asa Peller. “Hard and Soft, Robotic Needle Felting for Nonwoven Textiles.” Research Through Making, Liberty Research Annex Gallery, Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018. Installation of full-scale prototypes and videos.

Wes McGee, Tsz Yan Ng, and Asa Peller. “Hard + Soft: Robotic Needle Felting for Nonwoven Textiles.” Young Potential Best Paper Award Runner-up, Kuka Robotics and Rob|Arch (Association for Robots in Architecture), 2018.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, and Asa Peller. “Robotic Needle Felting.” Finalists for 2018 Architizer’s A+ Acoustics Award.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Labor Visible and Invisible.” Interiors, Volume 9, no. 1, March 2018, 42-59. [link]

Ng, Tsz Yan, Wes McGee, and Asa Peller. “Robotic Needle Felting.” Citation for R+D Awards 2018, Architect Magazine.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Mehrdad Hadighi, and Marc Neveu, editors. Twisted: Lafayette 148 New York Shantou Building, contributors: Mark Linder, Brian Carter, and Nina Rappaport. Actar Publishing, 2018.

Ng, Tsz Yan and Wes McGee. “Hard + Soft: Robotic Needle Felting for Nonwoven Textiles.” ROB|ARCH 2018, Radical Cross-disciplinarity, Zurich, CH, 2018. Presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Public Domesticity.” ACSA 2018 International, New Instrumentalities, Madrid, ES, 2018. Presentation.

“Robotic Needle Felting,” Architect magazine, v. 107, no. 7 (July, 2018): 116

Ng, Tsz Yan and Wes McGee. “Thermoplastic Concrete Casting.” Research Through Making, Liberty Research Annex, Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017. Installation of full-scale prototypes.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Public Domesticity_art, architecture, and urban design.” Michigan Mellon Colloquium, Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017. Lecture.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Thermoplastic Concrete Casting.” TxA 2017 Emerging Design + Technology, Texas Society of Architects, 2017. Presentation.

Ng. Tsz Yan. “Thermoplastic Concrete Casting.” ACADIA 2017, Disciplines + Disruption, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2017. Selected project panel presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Labor Visible and Invisible.” Unmentionable Symposium, Helms Design Center, Woodbury University, Los Angeles, 2017, Presentation.

Rappaport, Nina. “Lafayette 148, Shantou, China.” In Vertical Urban Factory, Actar Publishing, 2016, pp. 366-368. Book.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Projects.” Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo, JP, 2016. Artist talk.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Catie Newell. “Projects.” Ph.D Colloquium, Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2016. Presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Concrete Labor,” Shaping New Knowledges, 104th ACSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2016. Presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. Research Residency Fellow, Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange (architecture), Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

Van Uffelen, Chris, editor. “Lafayette 148 New York, Shantou, China.” Concrete: Pure. Strong. Surprising. Berlin: Braun Publishing, 2015, pp. 26-29. Book.

Wasacz, Walter. “Walking fast and slow.” The Review, November 13, 2015, pp. 1, 4. (on project The Visibility of Labor.)

Sharp, Sarah R. “The 17 Pairs of Hands That Spun a Little Black Dress into Existence.” Hyperallergic, (November 10, 2015): http://hyperallergic.com/252420/the-17-pairs-of-hands-that-spun-a-little-black-dress-into-existence/ (on project The Visibility of Labor.)

“Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States.” Hyperallergic, December 16, 2015, http://hyperallergic.com/262144/best-of-2015-our-top-10-exhibitions-across-the-united-states/ (on project The Visiblity of Labor.)

Ng, Tsz Yan. The Visibility of Labor. 9338 Campau Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, 2015. Installation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “The Visibility of Labor.” Honorable Mention, Best of 2015: Our Top Exhibitions Across the United States, Hyperallergic, 2015.

Ng, Tsz Yan. On-going work support, Art Matters Foundation Production Grant, Jan-Dec. 2014

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Sartorial Architecture.” Ilse Traulsen Fellow, MacDowell Colony Fellowship (architecture), summer 2014.

Campbell-Dollaghan, Kelsey. “A Modern Chinese Factory Made Using Local, Traditional Building Techniques.” CoDESIGN, February 15, 2013, www.fastcodesign.com/1671851/a-modern-chinese-factory-made-using-local-traditional-building-techniques#1 (on project Lafayette 148).

Sharp, Sarah R. “With ‘Factory Setting,’ textile manufacturing looms large at 2739 Edwin.” Knight Arts, August 13, 2013, http://www.knightarts.org/community/detroit/with-factory-setting-textile-manufacturing-looms-large-at-2739-edwin.

Sharp, Sarah R. “Factory Setting: the space of labor’ is in powerful progression at 2739 Edwin.” Knight Arts, August 30, 2013, http://www.knightarts.org/community/detroit/factory-setting-the-space-of-labor-is-in-powerful-progression-at-2739-edwin.

Sharp, Sarah R. “One’s labor’s end for Tsz Yan Ng and new work to come at 2739 Edwin Gallery.” Knight Arts, September 10, 2013, http://www.knightarts.org/community/detroit/one-labors-end-for-tsz-yan-ng-and-new-work-to-come-at-2739-edwin-gallery.

Ng, Tsz Yan. Factory Setting: the space of labor, 2739 Edwin Street Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, 2013. Installation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Standard Deviations in Architecture,” Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 2013. Public lecture.

Balzer, David. “New Lights Fest & Last Mike Kelley Work Lure Art-Lovers Across the Border to Detroit.” CanadianArt, October 10, 2012, www.canadianart.ca/features/2012/10/10/detroit-dlectricity-mike-kelley/ (on project StereoNegative).

Tylevich, Katya.“Un-Privileged Views.” Domus Web, March 16, 2012, http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/un-privileged-views-/ (on project Shuttling the Grid).

Neveu, Marc J. “Concrete Twist.” Domus 958, May, 2012, and Domus Web, May 10, 2012, http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2012/05/10/concrete-twist.html.

“Best of the Week.” Domus Web, May 13, 2012, http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2012/05/13/best-of-the-week.html (on project Lafayette 148).

“Best of the Year.” Domus Web, December 31, 2012, http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2012/12/31/best-of-2012-architecture.html (on project Lafayette 148).

“Problem Solving through Problem Seeking.” interview with Mehrdad Hadighin, HAMSHAHRI, v. 19, August 2012, pp. 60-71 (on project Lafayette 148).

“DLECTRICITY, Detroit’s first ‘Nuit Blanche.’” Event happening concurrent to the New York and Paris “Nuit Blanche” festivals,” art agenda, October 2, 2012, www.art-agenda.com/shows/dlectricity-debuts-in-detroit/ (on project StereoNegative).

Wasacz, Walter. “Neighborhood Lights: Organizers talk about Midtown’s DLECTRICITY.” Model D, October 2, 2012, www.modeldmedia.com/features/dlectricity/1012.aspx (on project StereoNegative).

Blitchok, Dustin. “Midtown Detroit lights up with DLECTRICITY art festival.” The Oakland Press, October 3, 2012, www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2012/10/03/news/local_news/doc506cbc4c119b7155468306.txt (on project StereoNegative).

Seda Gul, “The Movement of Light Coming from the façade,” TASIRIM, Volume 223, July/August 2012, p 50-51 (on project Lafayette 148).

Ng, Tsz Yan, with Helena Kang and Justin Kollar. “StereoNegative a tribute to Tony Smith”, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 2012. Installation from open call competition.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “PreView, Inscribe, Recto|Verso_Manufacturing China, and The Spratly Fatigue.” Installed Exhibition, Architecture Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012. Drawings and Photographs.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Shuttling the Grid.” Un-Privileged Views Exhibition, WUHO Gallery, Woodbury University Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2012. Woven photographs.

Neveu, Marc J., “Concrete Twist,” Domus 958 (May, 2012) and Domus Web

Tylevich, Katya, “Research Through Making,” Domus Web (April 2, 2012)

Tylevich, Katya, “Un-Privileged Views,” Domus Web (March 16, 2012)

Ng, Tsz Yan. “The Spratly Fatigue.” Looking Both Ways Exhibition, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, 2011. Installation, juried.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “The Spratly Fatigue.” 2nd place, Looking Both Ways juried competition. Eastern Michigan University, 2011.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Joshua Bard, and Steven Mankouche. “Digital Steam-bending.” Research Through Making, Taubman College Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010. Installation.

Adrian Welch, ed. “A Few High Notes from 2010,” E-Architecture Newsletter 86 (January 4, 2011)

Yuan Jing, “The Architecture of Fashion,” in Numéro 3, China edition (November 2010): 192-197, English translation, XII-XIV

Isabelle Lomholt, ed. “Lafayette 148,” e-architect, newsletter 79 (November 9, 2010)

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Lafayette 148.” Fellowships in Architecture, edited by Monica Ponce de Leon, ORO editions, 2009, pp. 180-183.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Recto|Verso_Manufacturing China.” Fellows Exhibition, Taubman College Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008. Installation.

Ng, Tsz Yan. “Recto|Verso,” Fellows Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008. Presentation.

Ng, Tsz Yan and Mehrdad Hadighi. Lafayette 148 Shantou, China. 70 Architect(e)s on Ethics and Poetics. Centre de Design de l’UQAM, Montréal, QC, 2007. Drawings and photographs.

Ng, Tsz Yan, Torban Berns, and Dan Maxfield. “Inscribe.” Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2000. Installation.