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Mingjia Chen

MCP, MArch

Mingjia Chen (he/they) enjoys documenting and reflecting on unassuming experiences as modes of inquiry into his work. He is currently completing his degrees in architecture and planning at MIT where he was the co-editor of Thresholds 53:Idle, the 2022-2023 editor of the online student platform Out of Frame, and teaching assistant for several classes within both departments of Architecture & Urban Studies and Planning.

 



 

Publications

Mingjia Chen
Zoning Plan to Boost ‘Affordable’ Units Will Still Price Out Many
Sampan Newspaper
2025
Mingjia Chen
As Some See a Taller Chinatown With New Zoning, Let’s Focus on Getting to the Right Heights
Sampan Newspaper
2025
Mingjia Chen
Opinion: Chinatown Library Only Possible After Hard ‘Fight’
Sampan Newspaper
2025
Mingjia Chen, Joshua Tan (Ed.)
Thresholds 53: Idle
MIT Press
2025
Tejumola Bayowa, Mingjia Chen
Objects In Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
Are.na Annual Volume 7
2026
Lev Bratishenko, Mingjia Chen, Ewa Effiom, Melanija Grozdanoska, Rebekka Hirschberg, Harriet Powell, Thea Renyong, Duncan Steele, CoCo Tin, and Joseph Zeal-Henry
How To: Not Become an Developer
Canadian Centre of Architecture
2022
Headshot of Mingjia Chen

Contact

Vancouver, BC
mingjia@mit.edu
8573541357
Headshot of Mingjia Chen

Contact

Vancouver, BC
mingjia@mit.edu
8573541357
MIT MIT SA+P

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA

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