Ng wins ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence

Tsz Yan Ng, associate professor of architecture at Taubman College, has received a 2025 Innovative Research Award of Excellence from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). The award recognizes original research that advances the field of digital design and highlights work with the potential to reshape contemporary architecture.

Ng is principal of an architecture and art practice with built works in the U.S. and China. Her interdisciplinary research projects explore questions of labor, underscoring broader issues of industrial manufacturing, human crafting, technology, and aesthetics. Her material-based research and design focuses on experimental concrete forming, timber construction, textile innovation, and additive manufacturing processes, underscoring elements of R+D across scales, media, and applications.

Ng is the recipient of The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award, Architect Magazine’s R+D Award, and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium’s New Research Award. She has served as a board member of ACADIA and is currently on the editorial board of the The International Journal of Architectural Computing. Ng first joined Taubman College as a Walter B. Sanders Fellow.

Established in 1998, the ACADIA Awards of Excellence honor outstanding contributions to architectural computing. Each year, select individuals or programs are recognized for exceptional and innovative achievements that advance the field of digital design in areas including teaching, service, research, and impact on education and communities.