a.l . hu
Rose Fellow at Enterprise Community Partners
noma , ncarb , aia , ecodistricts ap
a.l . hu , aia , noma , ecodistricts ap , queer , nonbinary transgender taiwanese-american organizer , facilitator , registered architect life work new york city . practice synthesizes organizing racial , class , gender justice design ; rethink architect ’ role facilitating accessible space ; manifest design , visual medium , collaborative cultural work . 2019-2021 enterprise rose architectural fellow . member well conduit connecting many organization , including design protest , dark matter university , ncarb , aia new york . a.l . writes not-so-regular queer agenda newsletter , provides brainpower energy queeries , ongoing survey community-building project lgbtqia+ architect designer . received master architecture columbia university gsapp .
Enterprise Community Partners
https://www.linkedin.com/company/enterprise-community-partners
Rose Fellow
Greater New York City Area
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Solomonoff Architecture Studio
https://www.linkedin.com/company/solomonoff-architecture-studio
Senior Designer and Project Manager
Greater New York City Area
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Solomonoff Architecture Studio
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Designer
Greater New York City Area
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United Auto Workers
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Organizer
Greater New York City Area
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Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Teaching Assistant
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Sarah Jefferys Design
Architectural Intern
Greater New York City Area
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Research Assistant
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Solomonoff Architecture Studio
https://www.linkedin.com/company/solomonoff-architecture-studio
Designer
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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Turnbull Griffin Haesloop
Architectural Intern
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
Studiomaven
Student Assistant
Wrote, organized, and managed content for Studiomaven wiki, a website for teaching digital skills for 2D and 3D architectural representation.
Berkeley, CA
Philip Banta & Associates Architecture
https://www.linkedin.com/company/philip-banta-&-associates-architecture
Architecture Intern
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
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Student Assistant
As an intern with the Facilities Department, work with the Project Manager on cost estimation, site analysis, and project planning.
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UC Berkeley Interlibrary Loans Office
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uc-berkeley
Student Employee
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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GeoSpot
https://www.linkedin.com/company/geospot
Content Acquisition
Researched and organized a database of restaurants' operating hours for use on the website.
Fremont, CA
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Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Architecture, Sustainable Design
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), summa cum laude
University of California, Berkeley
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National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Re-Think Tank Member 2021-2022
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.
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
Queer Vigilantism
MAS Context
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.
https://www.mascontext.com/issues/33-vigilantism/queer-vigilantism/
A.L. Hu: You Might Think You Know Me
Architect Magazine
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.
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"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/
Architecture in the Trump Era: A Report from Columbia GSAPP
Archinect
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.
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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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First-Generation, Non-Binary, And Just Enough The Way I Am
The Establishment
"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."
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2018 Emerging New York Architects ARE Scholarship
The American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
Awarded for the pursuit of licensure and commitment to professional excellence in the New York design community.
Avery 6 Award
Columbia GSAPP
Student-nominated award for the graduating student whose commitment within studio and the school at large has earned the respect of the student body.
GSAPP Service Award
Columbia GSAPP
William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize
Columbia GSAPP
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Albert Hu
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Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting
San Francisco, CA
Al Hu
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Employee at BAML
New York, NY
Al Hu
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Writer at Essay110.com
London
Albert Hu
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Developer Advocate at Alchemy
Sunnyvale, CA