M.Arch, Rice University; B.S. University of California, Berkeley
Tiffant Xu joins the School as the Harry der Boghosian Fellow for 2025–26. Her work investigates North American contemporary construction culture through the lens of medium specificity and lived experience. During the 2025–26 school year, Xu will teach two seminars and an architecture studio on this research topic with an emphasis on tectonics and material expression.
Prior to joining Syracuse University, Xu was the 2024-25 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at University of New York at Buffalo, where her work explored conventions of light timber framing, culminating in the spring installation “Lightly Speaking.” She has taught architectural representation at Northeastern University and was a practicing architect at the offices of Spiegel Aihara Workshop, David Jaehning Architect, and Jim Jennings Architecture. Xu’s designs and writing have been published in The Architect’s Newspaper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CITE Journal, and Architectural Record. She has held editorial positions at the New York Review of Architecture and PLAT Journal.
Xu received a Master of Architecture from Rice University where she was the recipient of the William D. Darden Thesis award, and a Bachelor of Science from University of California, Berkeley. She is a registered architect in the state of California.
