Cynthia Deng is a dual-degree candidate in the Master in Architecture I and Master in Urban Planning programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is broadly interested in the intersections of design, politics, the environment, and social justice. She has conducted funded research in Egypt, Morocco, Mexico, and China on a variety of topics including human infrastructure of informal waste networks, vernacular earth architecture, and informal occupation of vacant lots. She holds a B.A. in Architecture with Distinction from Yale University and has worked as an architectural designer in New York and Beijing on a variety of project scales. Her work and writing has been published in Log, Platform 10 Live Feed, Yale Retrospecta, and Site Projects Inc. Most recently, she was a 2017 recipient of the Mexican Cities Initiative Research Fellowship. She is a proud second-generation immigrant from Hamden, Connecticut.
Cynthia Deng
