Joyce Hwang

Ants of the Prairie has a new website! 🐜🦋🐝🦇🐦🐍🐞🦆🐸🐿️🌱 We’re excited to re-launch antsoftheprairie.com today in alignment with the United Nations’ @worldwildlifeday , “an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora, to raise awareness of their many benefits to reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts.” (/en/observances/world-wildlife-day) I’m so happy to have worked with graphic designers Miguel Gajdos @3000000000am and Siri Lee @iris.eel who brilliantly interpreted our practice and ethos to create this fantastically vital website. And props to Siri for her patience in developing the site over the past months. Thank you, Miguel and Siri! Check out their amazing work — Link in Bio! #WorldWildlifeDay

So thrilled to finally see and share the @themuseumofmodernart video about my practice! It's the 2nd in #MoMA’s #AmbaszInstitute’s Built Ecologies video series-- I'm super honored to be included in this line-up! Thank you MoMA, Carson Chan @chan.carson , Dewi Tan @thedaywe , Pin-up @pinupmagazine , Felix Burrichter, MIchael Bullock, Michael Cukr @michaelcukr , Brandon Scott @brandonscottdrums , and everyone involved in making the film! 🙏✨🦇🐝🐦 And pinging Exhibit Columbus @exhibitcolumbus , SAIC Sullivan Galleries @saicpics (esp @jnthnslmn ), MacDowell @macdowell1907 , UB Architecture and Planning @ubuffaloarchplan , Tifft Nature Preserve @tifftnature , and Silo City @silocitybuffalo — thank you for being an important part of the work shown in the film. And also high fives to: Martha Bohm, Chris Romano @studionortharchitecture , Courtney Creenan @ccreenan , Kyle Mastalinski @kylemastalinski , Dan Nead, Scott Selin, Lisa Stern, and Rigidized Metals @rigidized_metals on the Hive City project. And a behind-the-scenes thank you to Wade Georgi @wadegeorgi , Albert Chao @treefalldown , YT Oh @archipleasure , and Greg Serweta for helping me set up for the filming! #AntsofthePrairie @antsoftheprairie #UBuffalo @universityatbuffalo . See link in bio for the "Designing for Other Species" feature in the MoMA Magazine, and for the link to the video!

“The Beautiful Game,” this semester’s Big Projects Studio led by Professor Joyce Hwang, took shape around the upcoming World Cup. With global inspiration and a real-world framework for the studio, 13 master of architecture students were tasked with designing a new soccer stadium for the New England Revolution, Boston’s Major League Soccer team, on a site that’s currently under consideration for that purpose. After completing case studies of stadiums worldwide, the students traveled to Boston in late January to visit the proposed site firsthand. Throughout the semester, students met regularly with Eric Brill (BA END ‘92), studio director in Gensler’s NYC office, Cory Kessler (BPS ‘98), senior design associate at Gensler, and Sam Valentine, a planner for the City of Boston. They also gleaned insights from Steve Chung, Gensler’s design director and sports leader in Los Angeles. For the final project, each student is designing a stadium that channels the spirit of their chosen fan (at Chung’s suggestion, each student developed a persona representing the fan they were designing for). Final reviews will take place at Gensler’s Midtown Manhattan office, where the students will present their work to Gensler architects, UB alumni, and other professionals, giving them one more close look at how large-scale design projects unfold in professional practice. Learn more about this studio at the link in our bio! #UBuffalo #UBuffaloArchPlan

Nighttime neighbors #urbanwildlife #motionsensing #skunk #cat #rat

In case you tried to visit antsoftheprairie.com in the past few days and got a password prompt, we are in the process of revamping our website (after more than 15 years with the old Wordpress platform 😂). Excited to share that our new website will launch on March 3, 2026 in honor of World Wildlife Day! Stay tuned! More soon! Meanwhile, here is a sneak peek 👀 🐜🐜🐜 Cc: @3000000000am @iris.eel

I had forgotten that I wrote a postcard to my future self almost a year ago, during my last week in Tainan. Totally surprised to receive this yesterday! Postcard and mailing by @bodomambo

Happy 2026!!! In the 21 years that I have called Buffalo my home, this is the first time I have been in town to celebrate the new year! Great to see so many people out on a super cold night! 🥶🥳🎉🍾🥂

✨2025 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀✨ Jointly administered by the League and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA, @nyscouncilonthearts ), Independent Projects supports self-generated work in design that seeks to answer the question: 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙜𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩? Today, we’re introducing the last five projects that received the 2025 Independent Projects grants of $10,000 each. Lingering Listening Pavilion: A System for Evolving Community Spaces Jin Young Song, Joyce Hwang, and Stephanie Cramer @jo.hwang and @jinyoung___song Buffalo, NY You(th) Fab: A Mobile Community Design & Fabrication Lab for Youth in Flushing, Queens Hung Fai Tang and Vincent Wu @hi5fai and @youth.fab Nassau County and New York, NY A New Residential Grammar: Herman Jessor and Abraham Kazan’s Housing Cooperatives and Shared Living Elements Mersiha Veledar and Kayla Montes de Oca @mersihaveledar New York, NY The Design Turn: Unpacking Incentives, Values, and Impacts in New York City’s Affordable Housing Architecture Laura Wainer New York and Westchester County, NY Seeds of Diaspora: Plants, Migrations, Settlements, Cities Lynnette Widder, Wendy S. Walters, and Sam Van Aken New York, Syracuse, and Westchester County, NY Stay tuned to learn more about the next Independent Projects cycle in 2026. 📸 1) Concept image of Lingering Listening Pavilion. Image Credit: Jin Young Song 2) Image credit: Hung Fai Tang, assisted by AI 3) Co-op City construction. Image credit: Architectural Record 4) “CHILDHOOD NODES,” from “PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing,” published by The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Image credit: Mauricio Guidos and Genesis Soto 5) Oakwood Beach, Staten Island, September 2024. Ornamental conifers and spontaneous vegetation at the site of a house ceded to storm surge flooding. Image credit: Thad Russell

2025 Independent Projects Grant Recipient, supported by NYSCA and The Architectural League of NY. Lingering Listening Pavilion: A System for Evolving Community Spaces Jin Young Song, Joyce Hwang, and Stephanie Cramer. In collaboration with Tool Library Lingering Listening Pavilion explores a participatory design-build process using a reconfigurable modular construction system. In partnership with the Tool Library, a nonprofit organization in Buffalo, NY, this project proposes a communal space that evolves with community needs and invites people to participate and linger. Its incremental, adaptable design embodies the practice of “listening through design,” reshaping how the space fosters engagement over time. #thetoollibrary

One of the best things about final review season is catching up with old friends! So happy to host Yusuke Obuchi in Buffalo for @nbruscia ’s review at @ubuffaloarchplan — can’t believe it’s been over a decade since we have seen each other! We are so lucky that Yusuke is nearby this year as the 2025-26 Daniels Faculty’s Gehry Chair @uoftdaniels . (And he was our 2nd ever house guest in our new place 🏡)

Beneath the surface of the Balearic Islands lies a fragile network of Aquifer Communities — underground collectives sustaining life across Mallorca, Menorca, Eivissa, and Formentera. This totem connects to the word Hydrocommunity by Joyce Hwang (@jo.hwang ), evoking the shared relationships that bind humans, ecosystems, and the hidden infrastructures of water. Through ceramic plaques linking each place to its aquifer, it traces invisible connections between individual use and collective subterranean life. In the face of overextraction, pollution, and the pressures of tourism, Aquifer Communities calls for an ethic of attention, care, and collective action — reimagining how we coexist with water beneath and beyond the surface. 📍On view at @_docks_cantieri_cucchini , Venice 🗓 May 10 – November 23 | Free entry #WaterParliamentsBiennale is curated by Eva Franch (@eva_franch ), Mireia Luzárraga & Alejandro Muiño (@we_are_takk ), and commissioned by @irllull as an official Collateral Event of @labiennale #BiennaleArchitettura2025. With the support of @columbiagsapp @umprum_praha #CataloniaInVenice #IntelliGens #AquaAudibilis #InstitutRamonLlull #Hydrocommunity #JoyceHwang #VeniceBiennale #ArtInVenice #WaterParliaments

Prairie House (1960-61), designed and built by architect Herb Greene (and his students) in Norman, Oklahoma. Preservation efforts are being stewarded by the Prairie House Preservation Society @prairiehousepreservation , a 501c3 formed in 2022. On their website: “The Prairie House is considered by some to be one of the most coherent embodiments of the type of Organic architecture exemplified by Bruce Goff and his followers. At the current age of 92, (Greene) is the only living member of the University of Oklahoma American School faculty and the Prairie House is one of only three buildings still standing in Norman from this significant era in Oklahoma history.” Thank you @ou_gibbs faculty Terri Bullard for hosting my visit and Ted Reeds (a PHPS board leader) for the wonderful tour of the house!