Art Omi: Architecture 2025
U.S.
Alina Nazmeeva is a media artist, architect, and educator whose work examines the material and cultural implications of technology. Her work integrates XR, AI, textile, physical installation, digital simulation, and gaming engines as storytelling devices and sites of critique. Alina is an assistant professor of computation at the University of Illinois School of Architecture. She holds a master’s degree from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She was a fellow-in-residence at the University of Michigan, Canadian Centre of Architecture, and Strelka Institute. Alina’s work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Digital Art Zurich, Slamdance, and HKWalls. She presented at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Politecnico di Milano, Parsons School of Design, SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, and upcoming, ISEA2025.
Spain/U.S.
Andrea Molina Cuadro is a Spanish architect, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of design, art, and environmental humanities. She is the co-founder of Latent Ecologies, a collective that uses critical cartography and storytelling to inspire ecological resurgence in urban environments.
She has been a fellow at Storefront for Art and Architecture and an artist-in-residence at the Mutant Institute for Environmental Narratives (IMNA) at Matadero Madrid. She has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University and as a designer at Estudio Herreros and Moneo Brock in Madrid.
Her work has been supported by The Graham Foundation, published in e-flux Architecture, and reviewed by The Architect’s Newspaper. Andrea is currently an Adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She holds an M.S. in critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices in architecture from Columbia University and a master of architecture from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).
U.S.
Ang Li is an interdisciplinary designer and associate professor at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Her creative practice investigates the maintenance rituals and material afterlives behind the modern built environment through fieldwork, material experiments, designed objects, spatial installations, and site-specific public art commissions. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Exhibit Columbus, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, among other venues. Ang holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Cambridge and a master of architecture from Princeton University.
U.S.
Dillon Pranger is an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he directs the Deconstruction/Reconstruction Lab, an interdisciplinary research group whose work lies in sustainable building material recovery methods and circular construction techniques. As a licensed architect, he is the founder and sole principal of ODP (Office of Dillon Pranger). His design work has been featured extensively through the 2024 and 2023 Architizer A+ Awards, 2023 Rethinking the Future Awards, 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Residential Design Vol. 2, Architect Magazine, Van Alen Institute, and Princeton Architectural Press’ Posters for the Planet, among others.
Mexico
Trained as an architect with a master’s degree in urban design, Erik Carranza is interested in architecture as a spatial practice added to the city and the crossover with other disciplines that develop in the same urban space—from skateboarding and game-play-sport to informality and food. Since 2007, he has directed Anónima, a design and research platform. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in architecture at La Salle University and CENTRO. He was a member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) for the 2020-2023 cycle with the theme City, Body, and Urban Sport, and was a scholarship holder in the Young Architects Program of FONCA/CONACULTA (National Fund for the Culture and the Arts) with the project: gastroarQuitectura, investigating the relationship between food and architecture. He was an advisor of the same program for the 2025 generation of young architects.
Carranza is head of the Architecture Program at La Salle University in Mexico City. He is also the winner of the 2024 Architectural League Prize. He is the author of La Frontera Desbordada, published by Underground Architecture in the collection Contemporary Aesthetics by the Department of Aesthetics at the Pontificial Javeriana University. It presents a view of the city and its processes through the interaction between living things and their own evolving phenomena and mutations. Carranza participated in Skate the World’s Mexico episode. He also writes for Arquine, an architecture, design, and urbanism magazine from Mexico City.
China/U.S.
Leyuan Li is an architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on the agency of the architectural interior in the articulation of spaces and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA and SOM before founding his practice, Office for Roundtable, a design collective exploring different forms and events of sharing. Li is currently an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Denver. His work has been featured on prestigious design platforms, including ArchDaily and Designboom, and has been exhibited at History Colorado Center in Denver, the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, and the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Most recently, he was awarded the AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award in both 2024 and 2025.
Ukraine
Liza Goncharenko is a Ukrainian architect, urban designer, and researcher. She holds an MSc in architecture from KU Leuven and a BArch from KNUCEA, with additional studies in urbanism at Lisbon University and heritage studies in conflict zones at IHS Erasmus University Rotterdam & TU Delft. She has worked in architecture offices in Ukraine, Sweden, and Belgium. As Ukraine’s National Contact at the European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA), she organised events and tutored workshops for architecture students across Europe. In 2021, she co-curated the SESAM Poliklinika architecture residency in Slavutych, Ukraine.
U.S.
Sophie Weston Chien is a designer, organizer, and practitioner who builds community power through social and physical infrastructure to ensure people can shape their own spaces. Sophie is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Design Program. She is one-half of the collaboration just practice and is a core organizer for Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. She has an MLA and MUP from Harvard GSD and a BFA and BArch from RISD. Sophie’s practice draws on her training as an architectural and landscape designer, planner, and political organizer to build spatial and social relationships.
Romania
Szabolcs Egyed is a practicing architect interested in high-quality anonymous architecture, experimental furniture, and research-driven model and image making. He studied at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara, with scholarships in Budapest and Salerno, and gained professional experience in Turin, Basel, and Bucharest. In 2020, he founded Atelier Szabolcs Egyed, working on local commissions and international collaborations. He has led workshops, given lectures on his early projects, and exhibited his work in publications and galleries, exploring themes of architectural practice, endangered heritage, and experimental design. He is based in Miercurea Ciuc/Csíkszereda.
Armenia/U.S.
Tigran Kostandyan is an Armenian architect, designer, researcher, and educator based in New York. His work explores the intersections of supply chains, architecture, and environmental systems through cinematography, model-making, algorithms, and storytelling. A registered architect in New York, he has extensive experience in architecture and exhibition design, contributing to projects across New York, Sharjah, and Dubai—including Sharjah Art Biennial 14, the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Expo 2020 Dubai, and 10 West 17th Street in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
Tigran is a founding member of Future Trajectories, an architectural collective investigating the entanglements of ecology, colonial histories, and spatial politics through design, research, and critical practice. He was a Strelka Institute Terraforming Fellow (2020) and a GSAPP Incubator Prize recipient (2024).