Christin Hu

christin hu is a lifelong tinker and learner trained in landscape architecture and architecture. They were born and are currently based in Lenapehoking (New York City, NY). Through collaborative workshops and games, christin brings joy and teamwork into the design process. A part of their teamwork in the field includes organizing with the Design as Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. They also practice game design, urban farming, and martial arts, all of which are grounded in Chinglish stories, tasty ancestral foods, and care for all people and beings.

They have worked in both architecture and landscape architecture offices, and have taught in the Industrial Design Department at Rhode Island School of Design, as well as Cornell University College of Agricultural Sciences and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Currently, they teach at The City College of New York and Pratt. They hold an MLA from Harvard GSD and BArch from The City College of New York.

B.Arch, City College of New York
MLA I, Harvard Graduate School of Design

(Forthcoming) “Bias Towards Action: Lessons from the Design As Protest Collective” co-authored with Sophie Weston Chien and Simone Delaney in Urban Innovation for the Climate Crisis: Design Policy and Practice, edited by Gabriel Kaprielian and Julie Ulrich.

“The Dark Matter Issue.” Architect Magazine, October 2023. https://www.architectmagazine.com/magazine/2023/october/.

“The other day we started a shared doc…” on behalf of Dark Matter U. In Log 54: Coauthoring, guest edited by Ann Lui and Ana Miljački and edited by Cynthia Davidson, 27-30. New York: Anyone Corporation, Winter/Spring 2022.

North Meadow on the Greenway. Boston, MA. Completed July 2022. https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/park-construction-north-meadow-on-the-greenway/. Winner of the Award of Excellence in the 2023 WLA Awards – Built Small Landscape Design category.