Ong Siew May (OSM) Professorship

The Department is pleased to welcome the incoming Ong Siew May Visiting Professor, Hsinming Fung, and Professor CJ Lim, who are joining us this semester (AY2021/22 Semester 2). They will share their expertise and guide our MArch I students in the AR5802 Options Design Research Studio.

Professor Hsinming Fung
Founding Principal and Design Director, Hodgetts + Fung
Recipient of the Rome Prize Advanced Fellowship in Design Art, 1991

In 1984, she founded Hodgetts+Fung Design Associates as a multi-disciplinary partnership in order to expand the artistic boundaries of the architecture and design professions at that time. Their first two projects were the landmark Blueprints for Modern Living exhibition at the newly formed Museum of Contemporary Art, and the subsequent construction of the award-winning Towel Library at UCLA. Awarded the Rome Prize and a recipient of the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects and the 2021 National Design Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, she has continued to break new ground with the new Hollywood Bowl and the recent construction of the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tennessee.

Professor CJ Lim
The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London (UCL) &
Founding Director of Studio 8 Architects and cjlim IMAGINARIUM

With over 25 years experience in planning and design of the built environment, he has been the principle investigator/designer of over 160 projects, with recent eco-cities planning and architecture commissions from the Chinese and Korean Governments. Lim’s design research of cities is developed through the ‘Smartcity’ paradigm, an ecological symbiosis between nature and built-form and the role that citizens play to create diverse forms of resilient landscapes and urbanism. He is the recipient of the Royal Academy of Arts London ‘Grand Architecture Prize’, and a four-time recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Medal International Teaching Award – the highest number ever awarded to a single individual.