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OCTOBER 2025

+ Evan Shieh joins the Perspective Lab Podcast as an invited

guest for the episode "Future of Mobility: From Autopia to Transitopia"

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at Pratt

Institute

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external guest

critic at Parsons School of Design

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SEPTEMBER 2025

+ Evan Shieh receives two Architizer Vision Awards for

Autonomous Urbanism (AR+D): Vision for Transport, Editor's Choice Winner, and Vision for Cities, Finalist

+ Evan Shieh awarded a 2025 S-Lab grant by the Institute for

Design Research & Innovation (IDC) Foundation for the exhibition proposal "Mono-functional Industrial Adaptation"

+ Evan Shieh attends final seminar review as a jury panel

member of the "2025 UDL Thesis Publication Seminar"

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AUGUST 2025

+ Evan Shieh joins the Interconnected Podcast by Equinix as

an invited guest for the episode "Autonomous Everything: Rethinking Infrastructure for a Self-Driving World"

+ Evan Shieh serves as a blind peer reviewer for research

paper submissions to the 2025 Conference of Green Digital Intelligent (GDI) Built Environments

+ Evan Shieh nominated & selected to join the International

Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP)

+ Evan Shieh lectures at AHL Architects

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JULY 2025

+ Evan Shieh co-organizes and co-leads the international

"Urban Intelligence Workshop" with Korea University and Parsons School of Design, held at the Division of Smart Cities campus in Sejong City, South Korea

+ Evan Shieh contributes a juror essay to the Form Follows

Life: Reinventing Cities report, published by Non-Architecture

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the organization Lectures on Tap,

hosted by NeueHouse NYC

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JUNE 2025

Emergent Studio's proposal Vanua Sun-Well shortlisted as a

Finalist in the international "2025 Land Art Generative Initiative (LAGI)" design competition

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the American Institute of Architects

(AIA), hosted by the Sub-Zero, Wolf, & Cove Showroom

+ Evan Shieh lectures at TYLin Engineering Group

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MAY 2025

+ Evan Shieh co-lectures and co-leads a topical workshop

session at the United Nations HQ for the 10th Annual Science, Technology, & Innovation (STI) Forum as part of the symposium "Future of Cities", organized by NYIT in collaboration with the Consulate General of Denmark NY

+ Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Parsons School of Design

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APRIL 2025

Evan Shieh invited to serve on the jury panel of the Urban 

Design Lab "2025 UDL Thesis Publication" competition

+ Evan Shieh co-publishes the paper "Envisioning Future

HealthScapes" for the 10th Annual Science, Technology, & Innovation (STI) Forum SDG Conference 2025

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the organization Open Plans, hosted

by Cookfox Architects

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MARCH 2025

+ Autonomous Urbanism (AR+D) given a book review by the

Urban Design Lab

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the Harvard Alumni Architectural & 

Urban Society (HAAUS), hosted by Head Hi Bookstore

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the NYC Department of City Planning

(DCP) Urban Design Division's monthly "BUDS" lecture series

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at

Parsons School of Design

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external guest

critic at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Parsons School of Design

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FEBRUARY 2025

+ Evan Shieh curates the exhibition Autonomous Urbanism at

Education Hall Gallery, NYIT

+ Evan Shieh joins the Most Podern Podcast as an invited

guest for the episode "Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Cities"

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at North

Carolina State University

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JANUARY 2025

+ Evan Shieh interviewed and quoted in NatNews, Issue 148

+ Evan Shieh lectures at Amazon's self-driving vehicle

company Zoox's "CityBeat" quarterly lecture series

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DECEMBER 2024

+ Evan Shieh publishes an op-ed titled "Our Car-Centric

Culture is Hurting New Yorkers" on RealClear Policy (RCPC)

+ Evan Shieh contributes a juror essay to the 2024 UDL

Thesis Publication report, published by the Urban Design Lab

+ Evan Shieh contributes to the exhibition Dreaming of our

Roots at Gallery 61, NYIT

Evan Shieh featured & profiled in the Winter 2024 edition of

Metropolis Magazine

+ Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Parsons School of Design

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NOVEMBER 2024

Evan Shieh named the national 2024 Planet Positive

Educator of the Year by Metropolis Magazine

Evan Shieh interviewed & profiled in the Fall 2024 / Winter

2025 edition of the New York Tech Magazine

+ Evan Shieh lectures at Harvard GSD’s “In Dialogue” lecture

series hosted by UD:ID

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the Living Well Club of New Jersey

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at Pratt

Institute

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OCTOBER 2024

+ Evan Shieh awarded the Stretto Alumni Achievement Award

at its 2024 Inaugural Gala 

Evan Shieh publishes Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a

New Transitopia (AR+D)

+ Autonomous Urbanism (AR+D) launched as a lecture

at NYIT’s World Un/Designed” Fall 2024 public lecture series

+ Evan Shieh lectures at the 2024 NYC Architecture Biennale

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external guest

critic at Parsons School of Design

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SEPTEMBER 2024

Evan Shieh interviewed & profiled by ArchUncovered

Evan Shieh attends final seminar review as a jury panel

member of the "2024 UDL Thesis Publication Seminar"

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AUGUST 2024

+ Emergent Studio's proposal Productive Han-Ga-Ram 

published in the official archive book of the 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

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JULY 2024

Evan Shieh lectures at NYC Urban Design Forum (UDF)'s 

"Office Hours" forum fellow discussion series​

Evan Shieh interviewed & profiled by Medium's Authority

Magazine

Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at the Strother School of Radical Attention

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JUNE 2024​

Emergent Studio's proposal Fastscape-Slowscape awarded

3rd Place in the international "Banpo-Hangang River Connection Park and Cultural Facilities" design competition, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government

+ Evan Shieh awarded a 2024 Emerging Technologies 

Implementation Grant by NYIT for the proposal "Geo-Spatial Cartographic Urban Morphologies"​​​​

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MAY 2024​

Evan Shieh invited to serve on the jury panel of the

Non-Architecture "Form Follows Life: Reinventing Cities" design competition

Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design

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APRIL 2024​

Evan Shieh contributes to NYIT's proposal Future by Design,

curated & exhibited at the 2024 SaloneSatellite, Salone del Mobile Milano

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​MARCH 2024​

Evan Shieh invited to serve on the jury panel of the Urban 

Design Lab "2024 UDL Thesis Publication" competition

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FEBRUARY 2024​

+ Evan Shieh introduces & moderates the book launch event

"Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground" by Yun Fu, at NYIT's Spring 2024 public lecture series

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JANUARY 2024​

+ Evan Shieh interviewed & profiled by New York Tech News

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DECEMBER 2023​

+ Evan Shieh nominated & selected to join the NYC Urban

Design Forum (UDF) as a forum fellow

Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Syracuse University, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design

 

OCTOBER 2023

+ Emergent Studio's proposal Productive Han-Ga-Ram 

curated & exhibited at the 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, in the "100-year Masterplan" exhibition

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SEPTEMBER 2023​

+ Evan Shieh appointed to the full-time faculty at NYIT as an

Assistant Professor of Architecture

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AUGUST 2023​

+ Evan Shieh awarded the 2023 Presidential Excellence in

Teaching Award by NYIT at university convocation

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at the

University of Johannesburg

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external

guest critic at the University of Johannesburg

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JULY 2023​

+ Evan Shieh publishes Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid

Housing Typologies (Harvard GSD, 2023), co-edited with Rahul Mehrotra​

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MAY 2023​

+ Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Yale University, Columbia GSAPP, and Rensselaer Polytechnic University

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APRIL 2023​

+ Evan Shieh presents at the Association of Collegiate Schools

of Architecture (ACSA)'s 111th Annual Conference

"In Commons", in the Pedagogy: Inclusive Boundaries panel session

+ Emergent Studio's proposal Future of Highways exhibited at

the "Mediating Data: Digital Cartographies" exhibition at the University of Virginia

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MARCH 2023​

+ Evan Shieh awarded a 2023 Emerging Technologies 

Exploratory Grant by NYIT for the proposal "Artificial Intelligence and the Urban/Architectural Imaginary"

+ Emergent Studio's proposal An Ecology of Knowledge

and Culture exhibited at Incheon City Hall

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external guest

critic at Columbia GSAPP, Syracuse University, Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University

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FEBRUARY 2023​

+ Emergent Studio's proposal An Ecology of Knowledge

and Culture awarded an Honorable Mention Prize in the international "Incheon Geomdan Museum-Library Cultural Complex" design competition, hosted by the Incheon Metropolitan City Municipality

+ Evan Shieh interviewed & profiled by The New School News

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at North

Carolina State University and Rutgers University

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JANUARY 2023​

+ Evan Shieh awarded the national 2023 New Faculty Teaching

Award by ACSA/AIAS (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture/American Institute of Architecture Students)

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​OCTOBER 2022​

+ Evan Shieh lectures at NYIT's "Design Dialogs" Fall 2022

public lecture series

+ Evan Shieh attends midterm reviews as an external guest

critic at Columbia GSAPP

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SEPTEMBER 2022​

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at

Harvard GSD

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​​AUGUST 2022​

+ Evan Shieh interviewed & featured by KoozArch Magazine

Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest

critic at Columbia GSAPP's Summer Intro program

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JUNE 2022​

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at

Harvard GSD's Design Discovery program

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APRIL 2022​

Emergent Studio's proposal Future of Highways awarded an

Honorable Mention Prize in the Non-Architecture "Street of Tomorrow" design competition

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MARCH 2022​

Evan Shieh awarded a 2022 Library Course Enrichment 

Grant by the University of Virginia for the proposal "Future of Highways"

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DECEMBER 2021​

+ Evan Shieh attends final reviews as an external guest critic

at Cal Poly Pomona University and Orange Coast College

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NOVEMBER 2021​

+ Evan Shieh awarded an A+D Museum 2021 "Still-on-Paper

Design Award"

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OCTOBER 2021​

+ Evan Shieh contributes to the proposal Manaus: A New 

Contractual Agreement between City & Forest by Somatic Collaborative, curated & exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture

+ Evan Shieh gives an external guest course lecture at Yale

University

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SEPTEMBER 2021​

+ Evan Shieh appointed to the full-time faculty at the

University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Architecture

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AUGUST 2021​

+ Emergent Studio is founded by Evan Shieh

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