Ling-Li Tseng is an educator, architect, and maker with expertise in multidisciplinary design methods, including art, architecture, technology, and engineering. She is based in Taiwan and works as an assistant professor in the architecture department at National Chiao Tung University. Before she moved back to Taiwan, she worked as a designer-maker in Heatherwick Studio, a multiaward winning British-designed architectural studio. She takes the responsibility of designing smart interior spaces and prototyping for the Google Mountain View office campus in California. In addition, She is the founder of Serendipity Studio, a cloud-based design platform for experimental practices, and has linked designers from four different countries and won multiple international awards, including the 2017 X-site pavilion in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

EDUCATION

• Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,USA. Master in Design Studies - Technology, 2015

• The Cooper Union, School of Architecture, New York, USA. Master of Architecture II, 2012

• Tunghai University, Department of Architecture, TAIWAN. Bachelor of Architecture, 2008

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Designer, Heatherwick Studio, 2015-2018

• Founder, Serendipity Studio-Design Platform, 2016-2018

• Research Assistant, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2013-2015

• Teaching Assistant, Digital Fabrication Shop, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2014

• Editing Assitant, Cooper Union, 2012-2013

• Architecture Designer, Miniwiz, 2008-2009

Research

• Design Research in Campus Planning, Google Mountain View, 2015~2018. Team: Google Inc. & Heatherwick Studio

• Waste to Energy Project, 2014. Team: The WtE Design Lab, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

• Affective Thickness – Robotic Fabrication of Ceramic Shell Structures), 2014. Team: Nathan King, Rachel Vroman, Fabrication Lab, Harvard GSD

• Crabby-Informal Robotic, 2014 Team: Chuck Hoberman, Harvard GSD & Wyss Institute

Awards

• 12th Taiwan Interior Design Award (TID Award), Temporary Architecture and Installation Category, 2019

• Special Jury Award, 12th Taiwan Interior Design Award, 2019

• Best Design of the Year, Golden Pin Design Award, 2019

• Silver Award, Taipei Design Award, 2019

• Bronze Award, Urban and Environmental Design, Shenzhen Global Design Award, 2019

• Bronze Award, Public Exhibition Installation, Shenzhen Global Design Award, 2019

• Best Design of the Year, Golden Pin Design Award, 2018

• Finalist, Portland Design Museum Street Seats Competition, 2018

• First Prize, Taipei International Design Award, 2017

• La Vie Creative Award, 2017

• Winning Team, X-Site Installation Competition, 2017

• Graduation with Distinctions in Responsive Environments, (Re)fabrication Tectonic Prototype, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2015

• The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structure Award 2014

• MIT ART Council Grant, 2014

• IASS Hangai Prize, 2014

• MUJI Design Award Entry, 2013

• Harvard University Grant, 2013-2015

• Ministry of Education Grant, Taiwan, 2013-2015

• Winner, Alvaro Siza – Xue Xue Companion Travel Competition, 2012-2013

• Cooper Union Scholar Award, 2011-2012

• Honorable Mention, Young Talent Architectural Design Award, 2008

• Finalist, Outstanding Thesis Design Award, 2008

• Distinction, W.S. HUNG Annual Memorial Award, 2007

Publications

• Mist Encounter, Taiwan architecture magazine, Vol.266, 2017

• Mist Encounter, Shopping Design magazine, Vol.109, 2017

• Mist Encounter, In Side the Arts, TV Program, Episode 7 ,2017

• Architecture and Waste: A (Re)planned Obsolescence, Jul 2017, Harvard GSD [Editor: Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio-Villoria]

• Multidisciplinary Design Approach, Architectural Institute of Taiwan, P10-13 Vol.84, 2017

• Mind Wall, Fuzzy Production, Time + Architecture P.169, Vol.148, 2016

• Seibold, M. Singh, L.-L. Tseng and Y. Wang (2014). Hangai Prize Papers for 2014: Robotic Fabrication of Components for Ceramic Shell Structures, Journal of The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, p237-242, Vol. 55, 2014.

• Feather, Platform 7, Harvard Graduate School of Design Publication, P314-315, 2014

• Bloom, Platform 7, Harvard Graduate School of Design Publication, P308-309, 2014

• Continua, Platform 7, Harvard Graduate School of Design Publication, P304-305, 2014

• Affective Thickness, Ceramic Materials Formations, Harvard Ceramics Gallery 224, USA, 2014

• Young Taiwanese Architects in New York, Taiwan Architecture Magazine, 2014

• Braille Alphabet, Architecture Toys for Blind, A/N Blog, 2012

• Mental Toys, Portfolio of Young Talent Architectural Design Award, P27-32, 2009

• Mental Toys, “Paper Exhibition of Great Thesis Design”, Taiwan architecture magazine, P70-81, 2008

• Tree-Log Park, “A Real-Time Collage of Real and Virtual”, Taiwan architect magazine,P112-115, 2008

Exhibitions

• The Search of The Glow, Taiwan Lantern Festival, 2020

• Kaohsiung Shui Shui, Shenzhen Global Design Exhibition, 2019

• Mist Encounter, Shenzhen Global Design Exhibition, 2019

• Mist Encounter, IN-Site Exhibition: Ambiguous Atmosphere, 2019

• Mist Encounter, X-SITE Summer Pavilion, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, 2017

• Crabby, 10° – Chuck Hoberman Exhibition, Informal Robotics section, USA, 2016

• Bloom, ARTS FIRST Festival, Harvard University, USA, 2014

• TRANSPLANT – Young Taiwanese Architectural Designer Exhibition, USA, 2014

• Disaster as Opportunity, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, USA, 2012

• Unity Exhibition of Six Architectural Schools, Taipei Huashan-Creative Park 2008