Shou Jie Eng



Shou Jie Eng is a writer and architectural designer, whose work addresses the spatial and embodied narratives that are present in histories of labour and cultures of craft. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a multi-disciplinary design practice located in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his MArch from the Rhode Island School of Design.

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Posit, SOFTBLOW, Tupelo Quarterly, The Westchester Review, the anthologies New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy), Ritual and Capital (Wendy’s Subway and Bard Graduate Centre), and elsewhere. In 2024, he was a finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Contest, and his chapbook, We Carry These Bones to Market, was selected as a finalist for the Helena Whitehill Book Award by Tupelo Press.

Alongside his practice, Shou Jie is a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches courses on architectural drawing and other representational topics.


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Shou Jie Eng



Shou Jie Eng is a writer and architectural designer, whose work addresses the spatial and embodied narratives that are present in histories of labour and cultures of craft. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a multi-disciplinary design practice located in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his MArch from the Rhode Island School of Design.

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Posit, SOFTBLOW, Tupelo Quarterly, The Westchester Review, the anthologies New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy), Ritual and Capital (Wendy’s Subway and Bard Graduate Centre), and elsewhere. In 2024, he was a finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Contest, and his chapbook, We Carry These Bones to Market, was selected as a finalist for the Helena Whitehill Book Award by Tupelo Press.

Alongside his practice, Shou Jie is a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches courses on architectural drawing and other representational topics.

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Left Field Projects
RISD Architecture