Rashida Ng (MArch‘01) is a licensed architect and educator whose research lies at the intersection of social equity and environmental justice. Focused on housing insecurity, Ng’s work examines historical and present-day design practices that perpetuate racial inequities and health disparities in black, indigenous, and other communities of color. She has engaged in service and leadership activities both nationally and locally. Ng served as the 2019-2020 President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the first African American woman to hold this position, and as the Secretary-Treasurer of the ACSA board. She has practiced with firms in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New Haven.
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Housing insecurity through the lens of climate change and systemic racism
Performative materials and the interrelationships between constructed and natural systems
Assessment of the tacit social dynamics inherent within architectural pedagogies and curricula
ARCH 399: Racism and Climate Change
ARCH 4010: Advanced Design (Fall 2022)
Performative materials:
Performative Materials in Architecture and Design, Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel, editors. London: Intellect, 2013. Learn more
Cloud Magnet: A prototype for climatically active lightweight skins. Andrew Wit and Rashida Ng. In Proceedings of 37 eCADDe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution. José Pedro Sousa, Gonçalo Castro Henriques, and João Pedro Xavier, editors. São Paulo: Blucher, 2019: 627-636. Learn more
Cloud Magnet: the ethical imperative for environmental health and remediation. Rashida Ng, Andrew Wit, and Tonia Hsieh. In Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium / European Association for Architectural Education 2018 International Conference: Architectural Research for a Global Community. 2018 Learn more
Composite Systems for Lightweight Architectures: Case studies in large –scale CFRP winding. Andrew Wit, Rashida Ng, Cheng Zhang, and Simon Kim. In ACADIA 2016 Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. Kathy Velikov, Sean Ahlquist, and Matias del Campo, editors. ACADIA, 2016.
Nanomaterials: Invisible Structures, Visible Performances. In Proceedings of ARCC 2013 Conference: The Visibility of Research. 2013. Learn more
The Determination of Thermal Properties of Paraffin-based Phase Change Material [PCM] Within a Daylighting Panel. John McCloskey, Amy Fleischer, Sneha Patel, and Rashida Ng. In Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. New York: ASME, 2009.
Architectural pedagogies and curricula:
Breaking the Chains: Beyond the Beaux-Arts Tradition of Architectural Education in the United States. In Rethinking the Crit: A new pedagogy in architectural education. Miriam Dunne, Patrick Flynn, Maureen O-Connor, and Mark Price, editors. London: Routledge, 2022. (Forthcoming)
A Painful Truth: Reflections on the Path to Justice in Architecture. Context: Journal of the AIA Philadelphia. Fall 2021: 34-35. Learn more
What Will It Take? Reflections on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Architectural Education. In Journal of Architectural Education, 73, no. 2, 2019: 142-144. Learn more
The Student Issue. Rachel Schade and Rashida Ng, editors. Context: Journal of the AIA Philadelphia. Spring 2019. Learn more
Education: Building the Future of the Profession. Rashida Ng, editor. Context: Journal of the AIA Philadelphia, Winter 2017. Learn more
Registered Architect, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
National Organization of Minority Architects