Lily Chishan Wong is a licensed architect and researcher specialized in spaces and programs for cultural and educational settings, focusing on the relationships between architecture, vegetal life, and different forms of understanding the planet.

 Her practice, beep beep, based in New York and Miami, USA, is devoted to confronting the urgency of ecological justice and the legacy of colonialism through creating spaces, systems, performances, texts, and media. All of these are grounded on her academic research and upbringing in British-colonial Hong Kong. Her work has been supported by the American Institute of Architects, Art Omi, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Columbia University, KPF Foundation, Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design, New Inc at the New Museum, Syracuse University School of Architecture, and University of Miami Social Justice Prize.

 Lily is currently an assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture in Florida, USA. She received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the New School. 

(Website is under construction. Will be much better hopefully soon.)

Architecture and Vegetal Life
University of Miami Spring 2025 Tecnoglass Lecture Series

LECTURE SERIES

TALKS / PERFORMANCE / DRAWING WORKSHOP

collaboration with Xiaoxi Chen

Moonrise
Embodying the Mid-Autumn Harvest

Photo: Benny Rebecca

Photo: Xiaoxi Chen

Photo: Anna Santana

Photo: Benny Rebecca

RESEARCH / INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE

Patent Plants

Patent Plant (2023), an installation at Syracuse University

US PP26607 (2023), a performance about the legality of plants as intellectual properties and the language and spatial conditions that constitute them.

US PP26607 (2023) - Scene 1

US PP26607 (2023) - Scene 5

RESEARCH / SYMPOSIUM

Pet Plants

"Pet Plants” Symposium at Syracuse University
Graphic Design: Common Name

“Pet Plants,” in La condición postnatural: Glosario de ecologías para otros mundos, ed. Clara Benito. Madrid: Cthulhu Books, 2024, p.226-229.

RENOVATION

A Loft for Living with Plants

BUILDING

A Shed for Compost and Plants

A House with a Long Driveway, Hudson Valley

INSTALLATION

James Joyce’s Tree Wedding

James Joyce’s Tree Wedding, Bloomsday, Dublin (2022)

Museum Art Storage (with Weiss/Manfredi, 2022)

Previous Projects

Photo: Alex Doronina