Agenda
Teaching
Fall:
In Service Of:
Research
Action
|1| Image Credit: Baumann, Heinz, Street Cleaning, 1980-1982. ETH Bildarchiv, Bern, Bärenplatz.
People
Elif Erez-Henderson (she/her/hers),Harvard GSD, is a doctoral student with RIOT. Her work focuses on centering care and collectivism, and decarbonizing the built environment through policy and infrastructure design enabling repair and reuse. She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and has a Bachelors of Architecture from Yale University, a dual Master’s in Architecture and Master’s in Design Studies from Harvard University GSD. She has previously practiced at Studio Gang Architects, and is a co-founder of the repair-centered interdisciplinary design collaborative bags, @bags__collective, based in Querétaro and Istanbul. Her writing has been published in Log, the Harvard Urban Review, and PAIRS.
Kathlyn Kao (she/her/hers), Harvard GSD, is a scientific collaborator at RIOT and co-founder of Paperwork. Her work focuses on questions of immeasurability and intangibility within regimes of land ownership and environmental law. Her thesis, “In the Capital of Absence, I am Longing for___,” supported by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, focuses on the spatial remittance economy of overseas Filipina domestic workers. She has given talks at institutions including Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University, ABK Stuttgart, and ARQ Technológico de Monterrey. Kathlyn received a B. Arch from Cal Poly (SLO) and is a registered architect in New York, USA.
Nagy Makhlouf (he/him/his), ENSA Paris-Malaquais, is currently writing a doctoral dissertation within the ALICE and RIOT laboratories at EPFL, where he addresses the relationships between suburban planning, liberal governmentalities, and computational drawing in the U.S.A. He has recently contributed to the book Unearthing Traces and magazines such as Trou Noir and Polygone.
Friends & Collaborators:
ACAN
agps
Alia Bengana Architecture
Archizoom
Ariane Widmer-Phan
ASAR
Assemble
Blanca Guardelegui
Carole Lenoble
CRL
DRAG Lab
Dream the Combine
Dubravka Sekulić
Elise Misao Hunchuck
Filipe Calvao
HITAM
Huda Tayob
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
Kunik de Morsier
Jon Levine
Joanne Pouzenc
Matri-Archi(tecture)
Margarida Waco
Marie-Louise Richards
Maison de l'Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées
Material Cultures
Merve Bedir
Motor Productions
New South
Olaf Grawert
Samia Henni
Something Fantastic
Stephane Herpin
Station +
Studio Dia
Tom Emerson
TPOD
THEMA
Villalba Studio
Teaching Assistants:
Carolina Pichler
Eva Oustric
Laure Melati Dekoninck
Paulina Ornella Beron
Credits:
Website Design: Something Fantastic with Villalba Studio
Graphic Identity: Something Fantastic
Agenda
Teaching
Fall:
In Service Of:
Research
Action
|1| Image Credit: Baumann, Heinz, Street Cleaning, 1980-1982. ETH Bildarchiv, Bern, Bärenplatz.
People
Elif Erez-Henderson (she/her/hers),Harvard GSD, is a doctoral student with RIOT. Her work focuses on centering care and collectivism, and decarbonizing the built environment through policy and infrastructure design enabling repair and reuse. She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and has a Bachelors of Architecture from Yale University, a dual Master’s in Architecture and Master’s in Design Studies from Harvard University GSD. She has previously practiced at Studio Gang Architects, and is a co-founder of the repair-centered interdisciplinary design collaborative bags, @bags__collective, based in Querétaro and Istanbul. Her writing has been published in Log, the Harvard Urban Review, and PAIRS.
Kathlyn Kao (she/her/hers), Harvard GSD, is a scientific collaborator at RIOT and co-founder of Paperwork. Her work focuses on questions of immeasurability and intangibility within regimes of land ownership and environmental law. Her thesis, “In the Capital of Absence, I am Longing for___,” supported by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, focuses on the spatial remittance economy of overseas Filipina domestic workers. She has given talks at institutions including Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University, ABK Stuttgart, and ARQ Technológico de Monterrey. Kathlyn received a B. Arch from Cal Poly (SLO) and is a registered architect in New York, USA.
Nagy Makhlouf (he/him/his), ENSA Paris-Malaquais, is currently writing a doctoral dissertation within the ALICE and RIOT laboratories at EPFL, where he addresses the relationships between suburban planning, liberal governmentalities, and computational drawing in the U.S.A. He has recently contributed to the book Unearthing Traces and magazines such as Trou Noir and Polygone.
Friends & Collaborators:
ACAN
agps
Alia Bengana Architecture
Archizoom
Ariane Widmer-Phan
ASAR
Assemble
Blanca Guardelegui
Carole Lenoble
CRL
DRAG Lab
Dream the Combine
Dubravka Sekulić
Elise Misao Hunchuck
Filipe Calvao
HITAM
Huda Tayob
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
Kunik de Morsier
Matri-Archi(tecture)
Margarida Waco
Marie-Louise Richards
Material Cultures
Motor Productions
New South
Olaf Grawert
Something Fantastic
Stephane Herpin
Station +
Studio Dia
Tom Emerson
TPOD
THEMA
Villalba Studio
Teaching Assistants:
Carolina Pichler
Eva Oustric
Laure Melati Dekoninck
Paulina Ornella Beron
Credits:
Website Design: Something Fantastic with Villalba Studio
Graphic Identity: Something Fantastic
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