Experimental Constructions Lecture Series

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Tuesday, September 3, 2 - 3pm, CAP Room 470

Founded in 2023 by Ran Huo and Shenghui Mao, Office Moments is a design and research architectural studio based in Shanghai, providing inter-disciplinary design services ranging from architecture design, interior design, installation design and furniture design. Office Moments grows out of TeamRH of THDL. We were selected in HUA-STAR Young Emerging Architects in 2021, and awarded Chinese Young Architecture Firm by Position in 2021 and 2022. Since founded, the practice has won many professional awards, including First Prize of Youth & Sea Xiangshan Trailscape Invitational Competition; Second Prize of Longquan City Balcony Architecture and Landscape Design Invitational Competition; Honorable mention of Architecture Master Prize (AMP).

Image Credit: Dashahe Riverside Teahouse by Office Moments

Tuesday, September 17, 2 - 3pm, CAP Room 470

Alex Spatzier is an architect based in Oakland, California, serving as the principal architect of ASA (Alex Spatzier Architects) and a partner at ALTO, where he collaborates with Tommy Haddock on larger scale projects. He taught design studios at UC Berkeley, where he also earned his M.Arch. He previously worked at First Office in SF/LA and SITU Studio in NYC. Before architecture, he did research in geology and astrophysics, and has BAs in Physics and Mathematics from Oberlin College. 

Tuesday, October 8, 2 - 3pm, CAP Room 470

Holly Deichmann is an Associate Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). She was the Project Architect of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Project Director for the adjoining Park Union Bridge, a curved steel structure connecting the museum campus to the adjacent America the Beautiful Park. Before joining Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Holly worked with Peter Gluck Architects (now Gluck+) as Project Manager for the Lakeside Retreat in the Adirondacks of New York. Prior to her time at Gluck+, Holly worked at OMA Rotterdam in the Netherlands and OMA Beijing in China, where she was the Project Architect of the CCTV Headquarters. Holly’s previous roles also include Project Architect at Istanbullu Architects for the City of Los Angeles Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library.

Tuesday, October 29, 2 - 3pm, CAP Room 470

Kwong Von Glinow (KVG) is an award-winning architecture practice founded in 2017 by Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow, both of who are visiting critics at Rice University School of Architecture. Their delivered projects range from single-family homes to multifamily residential buildings, public and cultural spaces, exhibitions, and designed objects. Their work translates forward-looking architectural concepts into playful designs with broad appeal. Taking an optimistic and explorative approach, KVG focuses on creating innovative living environments, places for cultural engagement, urban public space, and contemporary workspaces.

Tuesday, November 12, 2 - 3pm, CAP Room 470

Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis are co-founders of DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS. The interest underlying much of their work is the friction between the original design intentions for spaces and buildings, and the much richer built reality and unpredictable lives that buildings inevitably have. In most of their work, they study existing built conditions—sometimes these studies evolve into built works and sometimes the studies take the form of documentation (drawings, photographs, writing).