For the past two decades, Professor Joyce Hwang’s award-winning architectural practice has been focused on developing a series of projects that incorporate wildlife habitats into constructed environments. A pioneer in advancing multi-species design in architecture, her focus on ecological practices and climate justice contributes to innovating design practice and education, and advocating for care and empowerment in the built environment.
A registered architect in the State of New York, she has practiced professionally with offices in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Barcelona. She received a post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Bronze Medal.
Professor Hwang is also a director at Ants Of The Prairie, an architecture, design, and research practice which advocates for a resilient and biodiverse planet by fostering interdisciplinary and inter-organisational collaborations and working with partners and consultants in ecology, field biology, visual art, music, engineering, anthropology, landscape architecture, architecture, and planning.
Her work has been featured by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and exhibited at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Matadero Madrid, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale, among other venues.
Hwang’s projects and writing have been featured in publications including Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, AV Proyectos, Azure Magazine, Biophilic Cities Journal, Bracket, Curbed, Elle Décor, Forbes, Good, Log, Metropolis Magazine, Next Nature, Praxis, Volume Magazine, and World Architects.
She is a co-organizer of the Hive City Habitat Design Competition and a co-editor of Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering Models of Practice, published by Actar. Hwang serves as a Core Organizer for Dark Matter University, and previously served on the editorial board for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE).
She is a recipient of the WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize Fellowship in 2024, Exhibit Columbus University Research Design Fellowship in 2020-21, the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award in 2014, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in 2013, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Independent Project Grant in 2008 and 2013, and the MacDowell Fellowship in 2011 and 2016.
