Jia Yi Gu

is an architectural researcher, curator, and designer. Her work  explores changing definitions of architectural knowledge from the building site to the desktop. She is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvey Mudd College and one half of the architecture and research studio Spinagu. 
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Jia Yi Gu
 is an architectural scholar, curator, and designer working on histories of knowledge production through the lens of media studies, cultural techniques, and material cultures (i.e. how we know and show our histories). Her research and courses explore changing definitions of architectural knowledge from the building site to the desktop. She is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvey Mudd College and one half of the architecture and research studio Spinagu. She develops exhibitions, texts,  and experimental programming and  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.