A.L. Hu
Rose Fellow at Enterprise Community Partners
NOMA, NCARB, AIA, EcoDistricts AP
A.L. Hu, AIA, NOMA, EcoDistricts AP, is a queer, nonbinary transgender Taiwanese-American organizer, facilitator, and Registered Architect who lives and works in New York City. Their practice synthesizes organizing for racial, class, and gender justice with design; rethinks the architect’s role in facilitating accessible spaces; and manifests in design, visual media, and collaborative cultural work. They are a 2019-2021 Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow. They are a member of as well as a conduit connecting many organizations, including Design as Protest, Dark Matter University, NCARB, and AIA New York. A.L. writes the not-so-regular Queer Agenda newsletter, and provides brainpower and energy for Queeries, an ongoing survey and community-building project for and by LGBTQIA+ architects and designers. They received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP.
Enterprise Community Partners
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Greater New York City Area
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Rose Fellow
Solomonoff Architecture Studio
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Greater New York City Area
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Senior Designer and Project Manager
Solomonoff Architecture Studio
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Greater New York City Area
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Designer
United Auto Workers
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Greater New York City Area
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Organizer
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Teaching Assistant
Sarah Jefferys Design
Greater New York City Area
Architectural Intern
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Research Assistant
Solomonoff Architecture Studio
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Managed and assisted Principal and Designers with design, construction documents, and construction administration on several high-end residential renovation projects.
Greater New York City Area
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Designer
Turnbull Griffin Haesloop
Translated sketches into AutoCAD drawings and SketchUp models for residential, educational, and winery projects. Rendered context-specific images using VRay for design review and planning review meetings. Completed construction drawings for an accessory dwelling unit.
San Francisco Bay Area
Architectural Intern
Studiomaven
Wrote, organized, and managed content for Studiomaven wiki, a website for teaching digital skills for 2D and 3D architectural representation.
Berkeley, CA
Student Assistant
Philip Banta & Associates Architecture
https://www.linkedin.com/company/philip-banta-&-associates-architecture
Worked with the principal and staff to draft plans and sections for warehouse renovation, create renderings in SketchUp for an office expansion, and edit images in Photoshop for firm website.
Emeryville, CA
Architecture Intern
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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As an intern with the Facilities Department, work with the Project Manager on cost estimation, site analysis, and project planning.
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Student Assistant
UC Berkeley Interlibrary Loans Office
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Processed a high volume of books to be mailed out to other universities, filed paperwork quarterly, and worked with supervisor to streamline the process.
Berkeley, CA
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Student Employee
GeoSpot
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Researched and organized a database of restaurants' operating hours for use on the website.
Fremont, CA
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Content Acquisition
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
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Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), summa cum laude
Architecture, Sustainable Design
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University of California, Berkeley
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Through a series of in-person and virtual events, Re-Think Tank members share feedback on licensure programs, brainstorm areas for improvement, and engage with NCARB leadership.
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Re-Think Tank Member 2021-2022
Dark Matter University
Core Organizer, Facilitator
Design As Protest
Core Organizer
American Institute of Architects NY
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The Architecture Lobby
Secretary
The Architecture Lobby
External Communications Coordinator
Welcome to the Vigilantism issue. In this issue we explore spaces of vigilantism, both historically and today. What are the spatial dimensions of vigilante encounters, segregation, violence, and exclusion, or conversely emancipation, liberation, and inclusion? Threshold, circulation, private vs. public, and other architectural delineations of space have become the subject of much controversy as footage of sexist and racist policing of these spaces emerge. Beyond spatial dimensions, which regulatory, institutional, aesthetic, and material expressions of vigilantism does architecture condition? What is vigilante behavior in highly digital and post-digital space? In pop-culture? In new media? How do technology and design become means for cultivating and expressing those behaviors? How do contentious political movements respond to, and draw from, vigilantism? What are the micro-, meso-, and macro-level dynamics of sociospatial acts of violence? Can vigilantism ever be good? Liberatory? And what are ways aggressors, resistors, and witnesses take on characteristics of vigilantes? To address these issues and more, vigilantism is a topic that needs to be explored.

Contributions by Emanuel Admassu, Laida Aguirre, Joseph Altshuler, Atelier Mey, Germane Barnes, Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, Galo Canizares, Sean Canty, Sekou Cooke, Krystina François, Jia Yi Gu, A.L. Hu, Demar Matthews, Katherine McKittrick, Zack Morrison, Jennifer Newsom, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Gary Riichirō Fox, Shawhin Roudbari, Andrew Santa Lucia, and Chat Travieso.
Queer Vigilantism
MAS Context
https://www.mascontext.com/issues/33-vigilantism/queer-vigilantism/
Only after we let go of the gender binary can we begin to come to terms with the ideologies of inequality that have been normalized in offices and studios for far too long.
A.L. Hu: You Might Think You Know Me
Architect Magazine
https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/a-l-hu-you-might-think-you-know-me_o
"Who’s missing from this AIA Conference promo video? (Hint: It’s not men)"
Architect's Newspaper
https://archpaper.com/2018/05/whos-missing-from-aia-conference-promo-video/
A week after taking to the streets for the Women’s March in New York City and two weeks into the spring semester, I felt restless and helpless as the barrage of outrageous news took its toll. It’s difficult to sit still in studio when it seems as if the world is beginning to morph into a reality that is at once unrecognizable in its incredulousness and intensely familiar—the beginnings of history repeating itself.
Architecture in the Trump Era: A Report from Columbia GSAPP
Archinect
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Archinect Sessions #81: GSAPP United: how student unions affect architectural labor, ft. A.L. Hu, GSAPP MArch student and organizer with Graduate Workers of Columbia
Archinect
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"I am a non-binary person. My gender does not fall within the bounds of the male-female binary. I am also a first-generation Asian-American. I wrote this to add to the many stories out there of trans-embodiment. There aren’t many non-binary people who are visible to the undiscerning, uncaring eye, but we exist. I exist. I have to tell myself every single day."
First-Generation, Non-Binary, And Just Enough The Way I Am
The Establishment
https://medium.com/the-establishment/first-generation-non-binary-and-just-enough-the-way-i-am-37d76e91cad7
Awarded for the pursuit of licensure and commitment to professional excellence in the New York design community.
The American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
2018 Emerging New York Architects ARE Scholarship
Student-nominated award for the graduating student whose commitment within studio and the school at large has earned the respect of the student body.
Columbia GSAPP
Avery 6 Award
Columbia GSAPP
GSAPP Service Award
Columbia GSAPP
William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize
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Long overdue! Congratulations to Diébédo Francis Kéré and his firm for winning the 2022 Pritzer Prize. Honored to have met him in 2017 at AIA…
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San Francisco, CA
Albert Hu
Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting
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New York, NY
Al Hu
Employee at BAML
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London
Al Hu
Writer at Essay110.com
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Sunnyvale, CA
Albert Hu
Developer Advocate at Alchemy