Joyce Hwang
Assistant Professor
office : Hayes Annex B 01E
phone : 716 829 5906
e-mail : jh96@buffalo.edu
website: http://www.antsoftheprairie.com
Assistant Professor Joyce Hwang, AIA, is the Director of Ants of the Prairie, an office of architectural practice and research that focuses on confronting contemporary ecological conditions through creative means. Currently she is developing a series of projects that incorporate wildlife habitats into constructed environments. The first built project in this series, “Bat Tower,” was funded with an Independent Projects grant from NYSCA.
Hwang’s research investigates ‘ecosystems of security,’ that is, the construction of ecologies that shape and respond to notions of human security. Her writing has been published in Bracket, MONU, and Mastermind Magazine, among others. Her architectural projects have been featured in numerous publications including Azure Magazine, Green Building and Design, Good Magazine, Inhabitat, Treehugger, and The Metropolitan Field Guide. Recently, Hwang was selected as a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
Hwang is a registered architect in New York State. She has practiced professionally with offices in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Barcelona, and has worked with the office of Carlos Ferrater in an invited competition for the new International Terminal at the Barcelona Airport. Hwang received a post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, where she received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Bronze Medal.
