Award-winning architect to visit the Stuckeman School as Corbelletti juror

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tsz Yan Ng, principal of Tsz Yan Ng Design and a winner of the Architectural League of New York’s 2022 Emerging Voices competition, will visit the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School Aug. 22-26 as guest juror and visiting architect of the Department of Architecture’s 2022 Corbelletti Design Charrette.

Ng, who is also an associate professor of architecture at the University Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, will give a public lecture titled “The Case for Architectural R+D” at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space and via Zoom.

Ng’s practice, collaborative in nature and interdisciplinary in scope, ranges in scale from textile manufacturing facilities to commercial retail interiors or installations. Her material-based research and design primarily focus on textile manipulation and experimental concrete forming, incorporating contemporary technologies to develop novel designs and innovative ways for building and manufacturing. Her work investigates questions of labor in various facets and forms, underscoring broader issues of industrial manufacturing innovation, human labor, crafting and aesthetics.

She has received multiple honors and awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ Small Project Awards in 2022 for the project “SPLAM,” the Architectural Research Centers Consortium’s New Researcher Award in 2020 and a citation from Architect Magazine’s R+D Awards for “Robotic Needle Felting” in 2018.

Ng’s co-authored book, “Twisted,” was published by Actar Publishing in 2018. She also co-edited the Journal for Architectural Education’s themed issue titled “Work” in 2019 and she was the guest editor for a themed issue of Gradient, titled “Inflections,” last year. She is a board member of ACADIA, the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture.

Ng earned a master of architecture II from Cornell University and her master of architecture and bachelor of professional studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

The Corbelletti Design Charrette ushers in the start of the new academic year for upper-level architecture students and the Corbelletti prize has become a coveted award among Penn State architecture students. Students are presented with a brief by a visiting architect at the start of the first week of classes and have the rest of the week to respond to the brief by focusing on the use of hand drawing and rendering in their submissions. Entries are then displayed for open judging and a jury determines the winner, with honors also available for second place and/or honorable mentions. 

Ng will present the Corbelletti brief on Monday, Aug. 22, at 2:30 p.m. in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space and via Zoom. Competition submissions will be on display and the jury will convene at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 26 in the Jury Space and via Zoom where the winner(s) will be announced. Those who wish to view the Corbelletti events remotely can request the Zoom links by emailing Chrissy Leidy at cml34@psu.edu.

The Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture is the largest academic unit in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State. The school houses the departments of Architecture, Graphic Design and Landscape Architecture as well as two research centers and one emerging research initiative: the Hamer Center for Community Design, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing and Ecology plus Design.