RISD faculty member Amelyn Ng is a Singaporean-Australian architect and cartoonist. Working in research, drawing and exhibitions, Ng explores architecture as media and environmental matter as information. Working across scales and between digital and physical mediums, she seeks counter-narratives and alternative representations to architecture’s status quo, particularly around climate and social questions. Recent projects include D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices in RISD’s BEB Gallery, Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-time to Geological Time at VI PER Gallery in Prague, and the SEI-funded Sensing the Environment: Evidence, Narrative, Appearance public symposium at RISD. Ng has also contributed work to Down to Earth at the 2023 Venice Biennale’s Luxembourg Pavilion and Architecture as Measure at the 2021 Venice Biennale Pavilion of Turkey. Past grant-funded projects include collaborating with community organizations in Houston, TX on publicly mapping toxicity and visualizing pandemic home stress.
Ng’s writing can be found in the Journal of Architectural Education, e-flux, Perspecta, PLAT, Cultural Politics, VOLUME, Assemble Papers and POWER: Infrastructure in America, among other publications. Her ongoing work on building information models and the entanglement of drawing with labor and material systems has been part of symposia such as Building Information at the TU Berlin Architekturmuseum, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital at EFPL Lausanne, and Software as Infrastructure at the eighth Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen.
A graduate of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Ng was a 2019–21 Wortham Fellow at Rice University Architecture. She studied architecture at the University of Melbourne and is licensed in the state of Victoria, Australia.
This course, the first in a two semester sequence, explores design principles specific to architecture. Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued:
the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation
meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture
ARCH 2196-01 - THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2196-01
THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatSeminar
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Amelyn NgLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 120Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
We begin work on your Thesis Projects from the outset of the semester: navigating arbitrary beginnings; setting boundaries like nets; developing a whole language of grunts, smudges and haiku; gathering the unique and unrepeatable content, forces, and conditions of your project; hunting an emerging and fleeting idea; recognizing discoveries; projecting forward with the imagination; and distilling glyphs, diagrams and insight plans.This course satisfies the prerequisite requirement for Thesis Project.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students are responsible for the preparation and completion of an independent thesis project.
Estimated Materials Cost: $50.00 - $200.00
Permission for this class is based on the student's overall academic record, as well as their performance in the Wintersession course ARCH 2197: Thesis Discursive Workshop. If the department recommends against a student undertaking ARCH-2198: Thesis Project, two advanced elective studios must be taken instead.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
These studios, three of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Fee: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
