Ming Thompson is an architect and designer working across scales and typologies. Ming is co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT’s work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in public spaces, schools, museums, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world.

Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been honored with the IIDA Foundation Visionary Award and the Architect’s Newspaper Young Architects Award. ACT’s work has been featured in Metropolis, Architect, Dezeen, and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Educated at Yale and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming is a critic at the Yale School of Architecture, where she teaches courses focused on community-engaged design.

Ming is also a co-founder of A Rising Tide, an initiative to cultivate leadership and increase visibility of Asian and Pacific Islanders working in design for the built environment.