ABOUT US

Our collective formed around our intersecting interests and backgrounds in architecture, visual arts, and urban planning research. Equipped with a profound understanding of architecture's role in forming visual and material cultures, we are passionate about creating sustainable and engaged spaces for this and future generations.

VANESSA GONZÁLEZ is an architectural designer from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, whose work explores how ephemeral architectures can define cyclical regenerative spaces for communities. Recently, her work has been supported by the Butler Travelling Fellowship, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and the Effron Center for the Study of America. This year, her research has also been presented in NYU Latinx Project’s Intervenxions journal and the 26th Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference at the University of Pittsburgh. Vanessa holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, and a BA in Architecture from Barnard College. She has previously worked at Joel Sanders Architect/ MIXdesign, Verona Carpenter Architects, and French2D.

BELLA CARMELITA CARRIKER is an artist and architect with a passion for water: she hopes to incorporate soft edges and multiplicities into a new framework for thinking both about the built environment and about the communities that design it. Through an interdisciplinary framework, her work focuses on climate through the lens of water and agriculture infrastructures, examining the intersection between environmental degradation and socioeconomic factors, gender, climate change, and (multi-)cultural concerns. 

Carriker holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and a BA in Architecture with a focus on Visual Arts from Columbia University. She has previously worked on artwork commissions for public exhibitions, co-designs in Bogotá, Colombia, New York architecture offices WORKac and Toshiko Mori Architect, the MIT Urban Risk Lab, and Sou Fujimoto Architects in Paris.