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curriculum vitae
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©2025 Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer /they/them/elle/ is an architectural designer, writer, and researcher currently based in Mexico City.
Their work analyses the instrumentalization of borders and binaries within heritage* and futurism**, and their potential to deconstruct and reconstruct socio-political territories.
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Audrey is currently the head of research at Sordo Madaleno (Mexico City & London) and is the co-founder of Rehearsing ∞ with Chong Gu, a collaboration dedicated to framing otherness in transience.
Previously, Audrey directed and coordinated research globally at Adjaye Associates (Accra, London & New York) before serving as head of research at Fundación Fernando Romero (Mexico City), where they led the development of the institute’s agenda on migration, territorial relations, and geopolitics, framing Mexico as a borderland. Before focusing on research, they worked as an architectural designer in firms including SOM (New York), Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo), Philippe Rahm architectes (Paris), among others.
Audrey was a resident of the Bandung Residency (New York), co-organized by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). They have also collaborated with various organizations, including Yale and Princeton NOMAS, queer space working group, Red Canary Song, etc.
Their work has been featured in the Venice Biennale Architecttura, AIA NY Center for Architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the ACSA/EAAE. Their writing has been published in e-flux, Pidgin, Paprika!, POOL, Yale Retrospecta, and other platforms.
Audrey holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Master of Architecture from Yale University (United States), where they were awarded the George Nelson Fellowship for their research Stewarding Chinampas: Co-speculating Our Many Worlds (Mexico City).
curriculum vitae
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Architectural heritage unravels the futuristic potential for both violence—of displacement, dispossession, and erasure—and abundance—of care, solidarity, and interdependencies.
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Architectural futurism often uses heritage as a foundation for imagining worlds that either authenticate or derive alternatives to colonial, hegemonic orders.