Lingxiu Chong
⚲ SoMA, San Francisco

Lingxiu Chong (AADip, Assoc. AIA) is an independent architect and cultural worker based in San Francisco. Her work across design, conservation and education aims to activate and transform historic artefacts and spaces around the world. She studied at the Architectural Association in London, and proceeded to practice architectural design with a focus on adaptive re-use and conservation, with Collective Studio and Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Asia, and with Page & Turnbull in California. She teaches architectural design with institutions including the Architectural Association and California College of the Arts. She collaborates on projects of various formats with like-minded individuals and organisations in arts and culture, including Gray Area, the Mechanics' Institute, AIASF, the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, and others. She is presently director of Proto-Domestics, launched in 2020.

/recent
Lecture: "adaptive reuse: scales, sensibilities, strategies", for 100D studio led by Jason Campbell at UC berkeley, February 2022
Presentation: "experimenting with the everyday" at the David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street
Exhibition Opening: project lead, exhibition design for M+ opening display with collective studio - opened to the public November 2021
Publication: urban artefacts co-edited with Calvin Chua published by SUTD press, published 2021

/presentations
Hybrid Festival: "UTOPIAA 2.0: Proto-Domestics in the Counterculture" hybrid festival organised with Architectural Association, CCA and Gray Area, August 2021
Panel Discussion, AIA SF: "Re-imagining Work/Space/Place" with Clive Wilkinson, architecture+the city festival 2020 (hosted by the mechanics' institute and gray area), September 2020
IG Live Interviews: with Keith Krumwiede and Tommy Haddock, Architectural Association Instagram Live talk, July 2020
Radio Show Guest: "Finding Shelter in Art & Architecture" in conversation with Luke Dubois, Peter Hirschberg and Mickey McManus, Quarantime Episode 34, July 2020
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/teaching
director, architectural association visiting school san francisco bay area
adjunct professor, california college of arts
lecturer, department of architecture, UC berkeley
guest reviewer, UC berkeley / chulalongkorn university / singapore university of technology and design / and other design institutions
instructor, architectural association visiting school "moulding matters" naples, italy
instructor, "the urban through the architectural" history and theory course, singapore university of technology and design
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