CV

Selected Projects

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[Survey] Stories that make a room (2023) by Jack Wu

[Housing] Community Housing in London by Andrew Douglas

[School] The Care We Sow, The Children They Know (2025) by Elim Hu

[Re-use] Explora_tory: A Playbook for Derelict Spaces (2025) Shnaia Xu

[Social Housing] Te Hokinga Mai (2024) by Antony Lu

[Community] Epiphany Rise (2024) by Alexander Wong

Jack Wu (he/him), MArch(Prof.) UrbPlan(Prof.)

Lecturer
Te Ara Auaha, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, AUT

Jack Wu is a Lecturer in Spatial and Interior Design (BDes, MDes) whose practice-based, cross-disciplinary work spans art, architecture, urbanism, and cultural studies. His research is often between climate emergence, diasporic cultures, alternative pedagogies, and new domestic landscapes. Jack brings cumulatively five years of professional architectural experience.

Andrew Douglas (he/him), PhD

Senior Lecturer / Retired-Registered Architect
Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland

Andrew Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in Theory and Design at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, and Director of Design. He has practised architecture in Auckland and London, including as a Project Director at Jasmax, and holds postgraduate qualifications from the University of Auckland and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an Executive Editor of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, a member of the TurnSpace Collective, and chairs the enigma: he aupiki Trust. His research ranges across architectural theory, continental philosophy, urbanism, and the politics of space.

Elim Hu (she/her), MArch(Prof.)

Architecture Graduate, Beureux Architects

Elim Hu is an Architecture Graduate from the University of Auckland. She currently works as an architecture graduate at Beureux Architects. With a passion for narrative and storytelling in design, her research interests include climate resilience, adaptive dwelling, and the relationship between imaginative process and architectural form.

Shnaia Xu (she/her), MArch(Prof.)

Architecture Graduate, Shape Architects

Shnaia Xu is an Architecture Graduate from the University of Auckland. She currently works as an architecture graduate at Shape Architects, as well as a Design studio tutor and Creative Technologist at the University of Auckland. With a passion for hands on crafting, her research interests include derelict spaces, urban exploration, play and upcycling.

Antony Lu (he/him), MArch(Prof.)

Design Studio Tutor / Architectural Graduate
Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland
Gallery Assistant, Objectspace

Antony Lu is an Architectural Graduate and Design Tutor at the University of Auckland. His recently completed thesis focuses on urban regeneration, historiography, and architecture-as-storytelling, all interests ingrained in his teaching practice. Alongside teaching, Antony works as a Gallery Assistant at Objectspace.

Alexander Wong (he/him), MArch(Prof.)

Design Studio Tutor / Architectural Graduate
Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland

Alexander Wong is an Architectural Graduate and Design Tutor at the University of Auckland. Having recently completed his thesis which focuses on the storytelling capacity of architectural interventions at scales of both building and at a furniture scale, he translates a heavy focus on narrative and bodily scale into his teaching practices.