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Jia Yi Gu

is a Los Angeles-based architectural curator, scholar, and educator with a special interest in critical and alternative practices in architecture. She is director and curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and co-director of Spinagu. She develops exhibitions, texts, public programs and experimental projects. (+)

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Jia Yi Gu is a Los Angeles-based architectural curator, scholar, and educator with a special interest in critical and alternative practices in architecture. She is director and curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and co-director of Spinagu. She develops exhibitions, texts, public programs and experimental projects.

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At the Seams: 5-Over-1 Housing in Chinatown


At the Seams: 5-Over-1 Housing in Chinatown  responds to the Los Angeles housing crisis by soliciting new propositions for housing density and multi-family living in Los Angeles, in association with a study on alternative ownership-models and financing. Establishing an approach that will expand a disciplinary interest in architecture to the fields of real estate and alternative financing, the studio will explore the problem of affordable housing with two propositions in mind: an address of housing through its social, political and economic conditions while also confronting the ubiquity of one-plus-five construction in Los Angeles (the default construction type for mid-rise residential housing).  

With Maxi Spina, Eugene MacDorman Visiting Professor, UT Austin, Advanced Studio, Spring 2022.

Student exercise in figure-ground. A loose constellation of courtyards as an organization principle for housing.