Jia Yi Gu

is an architectural designer and historian with research interests in the history and politics of architectural knowledge production, through the lens of media histories, display practices, material cultures, and feminist ethics of care. She is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvey Mudd College and co-director of research and designs studio Spinagu. (+)

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Jia Yi Gu is a Los Angeles-based architectural researcher and designer with a special interest in critical and alternative practices in architecture. She is co-director of Spinagu and Assistant Professor in Architecture at Harvey Mudd College. Previously, she was director and curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Materials & Applications. She develops exhibitions, texts, public programs and experimental projects.

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CARE-WORK: Space, Bodies, and the Politics of Care


The Institution is a Proposition in CARE-WORK: Space, Bodies, and the Politics of Care examines how concepts of care across multiple disciplines have redefined the boundaries between our bodies, our collective structures, and our environments. Through these frames, the symposium interrogates architecture’s relationship to care work as an intimate alliance between the built environment and its embedded material, social, and labor practices. Panel discussions explore architecture’s capacity to unearth and cultivate new forms for care, unpacking the intersection between space, subjectivity, and solidarity.

Organized by Brittany Utting, Assistant Professor, Rice Architecture, March 3rd 2021.