Shirley Dongwei Chen is a designer, writer, and researcher based in New York and Texas. Shirley received her Post-Professional M.Arch degree from Princeton School of Architecture where she was a editor for Pidgin magazine, and co-hosted weekly radio show at psoa radio. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at Texas A&M University College of Architecture.

Shirley’s recent projects explore how working bodies are registered and concealed in architectural bodies of work. She is particularly interested in the historicization of design and building technology. Her writings have been included in The Avery Review, Roomonethousand, POOL, Yale Paprika!, Lunch Journal, Utzonia: From / To Denmark with Love, among others. Her creative work has exhibited at a83 gallery in New York, Tbilisi Architectural Biennale in Georgina, as well as Trinity Buoy Wharf, TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth, and The Arts Institute, Plymouth University in UK.

Shirley is one half of DoZa with Maria Espinoza. DoZa’s project, Kartli Archive, is one of the three digital projects exhibited in Tbilisi Architecture Biennale 2022.

For inquiries, please email shirleydongweichen@gmail.com.