BETTY NG
Betty is the Founder and Director of COLLECTIVE. With an international career, her portfolio spans major architectural projects, master planning, interiors and cultural research across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Betty holds a post-graduate Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture (Professional Degree) from Cornell University. She is a Registered Architect in the Netherlands, a Chartered Architect of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and an International Associate member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Deeply engaged in industry leadership, Betty served as Committee Member for the RIBA Hong Kong Chapter (2024 - 2026) and on the Nominating Committee for the AIA Hong Kong Chapter (2023 - current). She is a Fellow of the 2024 Class of the Aspen Institute's China Fellowship Program, and a member of the International Women’s Forum. Additionally, she actively supports alumni affairs as a Board Director of the Cornell Club of Hong Kong (2022 - 2026), having previously served on the board of the Harvard Club of Hong Kong (2018 - 2022).
Prior to founding COLLECTIVE, Betty served as Design Director at OMA Rotterdam, working alongside Pritzker Prize Laureate Rem Koolhaas. There, she co-led the notable winning proposal for the Axel Springer Media Headquarters in Berlin and the 80,000-square-meter Hermitage Museum Art Repository in St. Petersburg. Her extensive tenure at OMA spans multiple global offices: at OMA Asia, she contributed to the CCTV Headquarters interiors in Beijing, the 42-hectare West Kowloon Cultural District Master Plan in Hong Kong, and the 140-meter-tall Baosteel Headquarters in Guangzhou; at OMA New York, she worked on the Milstein Hall architecture school extension at Cornell University and the 214-meter-tall Museum Plaza mixed-use tower in Louisville, Kentucky. Earlier in her career, Betty practiced at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel on the Mining Facilities Revitalisation at Monteponi in Sardinia, and the Church of the Nativity on Culiacán, Mexico. She was also at Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome working on the EUR Convention Center in Rome and the Is Molas Resort and Hotel in Sardinia. She has also conducted on-site research on Chinese vernacular architecture with the Tibet Heritage Fund and at the “Kaiping Diaolou and Villages” in Guangdong with Architect Mui Ho, which was later recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Active in architectural education, Betty is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she co-teaches the Master of Architecture Design Studio alongside COLLECTIVE Directors Chi Yan Chan and Juan Minguez. She has previously served as a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS), an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor advising Master's theses at CUHK. Furthermore, she acted as an External Examiner for HKU and CUHK, and frequents universities as review jury member.