Joyce Hsiang

Joyce Hsiang is an architect, urbanist and an assistant professor at Yale School of Architecture. She co-founded, Plan B Architecture & Urbanism, a collaborative practice that operates as both research laboratory and experimental design studio, to anticipate and rehearse new relationships between humans and the earth. Her work uses cartographic analysis, design experimentation, and architectural implementation to examine how humans have transformed the earth and to reimagine design at the planetary scale. Projects range from immersive exhibitions and landscape installations to urban plans and global models of urbanization.

Joyce has exhibited worldwide including La Biennale Architettura di Venezia (2021 & 2025), Lisbon Triennial, Istanbul Biennial, and Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale as well as in Switzerland, Iceland, Abu Dhabi and at universities including Yale, Princeton, and Arkansas. Awards include grants and fellowships from Yale Planetary Solutions, MacDowell, the AIA Latrobe Prize, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Hines Research Grant for Advanced Sustainability, MacMillan Center, the Franke Program in Science and Humanities as well as the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus. Her work and writing has been featured in diverse forums from Atlantic Cities, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program Future Tense, the Arctic Circle Assembly and Kulturplatz SRF to Log, [bracket], New Geographies, Al Manakh, Los Angeles Forum, and Wallpaper*.

Prior to starting Plan B, Hsiang was a project architect and manager at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Pelli Clarke Pelli in New Haven, where she led and managed the design and construction of large-scale urban projects throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Joyce received a B.A. from Yale College and an M.Arch. from Yale School of Architecture.