Lily Chishan Wong, AIA is an architect specialized in spaces and programs for cultural and educational settings. Her practice, beep beep LLC, based in New York and Miami, is devoted to confronting the urgency of ecological justice and the legacy of colonialism through creating spaces, systems, performances, texts, and media. All of them are grounded upon her academic research and upbringing in British-colonial Hong Kong. Currently, her projects focus on the relationships between architecture, vegetal life, and different forms of environmental knowing.
Lily joined the University of Miami School of Architecture as an assistant professor in 2024. She was awarded the Harry der Boghosian Fellowship at Syracuse University in 2022-23 and has taught graduate studios at Columbia University.
Prior to academia, Lily designed cultural and institutional buildings and landscapes with the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi. She received her Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and a BA in philosophy from the New School.
Happy to provide discounted or pro bono design services to 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations for the advancement of equity and justice.
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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