Jia Yi Gu

is an architectural researcher, designer, and curator. Her research and courses explore changing definitions of architectural knowledge from the building site to the desktop. She is one half of Spinagu, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvey Mudd College and co-organizer of Material Acts. She develops exhibitions, texts, and experimental programming and projects.


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Jia Yi Gu is an architectural researcher, designer, and curator 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, publications, and experimental programming and projects.

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Material Acts


Material Acts is a multi-year research project co-organized with Kate Yeh Chiu as part of the Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, presented by Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, 2024. Taking the form of an exhibition and publication, the project examines the role of nature as a starting point for material experimentation in the domains of architecture, craft, and science.

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Entourage


Entourage presents the work of contemporary architects who confront and expand the ways bodies serve as units of measure for architecture. The exhibition centers research-based practices and projects across multiple sites: in people drawn by architects, within the political space of restrooms, and through the commercial fixtures of our daily lives. The exhibition presents works and documentations by MOS (Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample), Your Restroom is a Battleground (Matilde Cassani, Ignacio G. Galán, Iván L. Munuera, Joel Sanders), and Strat Coffman.

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Subject Studies: Reorientations


Subject Studies is an annual program series offering practical and non-practical public engagements. Subject Studies’ inaugural 2022 theme, Reorientations, directs perspectives and questions towards MAK Center’s own institutional habits, routines and practices. With the backdrop of the roof restoration of Schindler House, Reorientations seeks opportunities to reorient our own institution through perspectives of care, repair and transformation.

Co-organized with Rosario Talevi, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2022. 

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Schindler House:
100 Years in the Making


The four-month exhibition and programming series celebrates the pivotal first century of the landmark modern house in Los Angeles by Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler. Alongside archival materials are contemporary contributions by artists and practitioners including: Carmen Argote, Fiona Connor, Julian Hoeber, stephanie mei huang, Andrea Lenardin Madden, Renée Petropoulos, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Jakob Sellaoui and Peter Shire.

Co-curated with Gary Riichiro Fox and Sarah Hearne, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, May 28—September 25, 2022.

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Exhibition views of Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making, MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Schindler House Centennial Program Series


The public program series features newly commissioned performances by jas lin 林思穎, the restaging of the opera Pauline, alongside a summer-long calendar of discussions, lectures series, curator-led tours, and asynchronous projects including the Schindler House Companion Tours.


MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, Summer 2022. 
 

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