Liz Gálvez is a registered architect, directs Office e.g., and teaches courses on design and environmentalism. She received an M.Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a concentration in history, theory, and criticism of architecture and a bachelor’s degree in architectural and philosophical studies from Arizona State University. She practices between the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico.
Previously, Gálvez has taught at the Yale School of Architecture, the Rice School of Architecture, and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, where she was the 2018–19 William Muschenheim Fellow. Her writing has been published in Thresholds, Footprint, and other journals. Her work has been exhibited at the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Austria, the University of Michigan, the Space p11 Gallery in Chicago, the Farish Gallery at Rice University, and at the University of Virginia. Most recently, her research has been funded by the SOM Foundation’s Faculty Research Prize and the Graham Foundation. She was a 2022 Art Omi fellow and recipient of the 2016 Seebacher Prize for the Fine Arts. In 2021, she was awarded the Architectural League Prize.
Team Members:
Deniz Atayolu (Undergrad)
Catherine Chiu (Undergrad)
Xinhui Harper Dong (M.Arch)
Annette Ho (Undergrad)
Kyra Johnston (M.Arch)
David Lin (Undergrad)
Chloe Wang (Undergrad)
Sarah Zhang (Undergrad)
Wenteng Zhao (M.Arch)
- Collective Comfort (exhibition)
- Prepared Mass (research)
- A Heterogenous Interior (architecture/prototype)
- Wooden Food (research)
- From Wood to Tree (research)