Art Omi: Architecture 2026
Morocco/France
Sara Ayoub is an architect graduate from École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-la Villette. Her practice operates at the intersection of architecture, exhibition design, and material research. She approaches architecture as a layered process shaped by manual, mechanical, and technological gestures, investigating how matter accumulates and transforms over time. Her work explores themes of stratigraphy, ruin, and transformation, treating architecture as an evolving system. Ayoub designed the scenography for the exhibition Archéologies at the Dar Bellarj Foundation in Marrakech and contributed to the development of a 3D-printed earth prototype within the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s 3DPA program, presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
U.S./El Salvador
Carlos H. Blanco is a Salvadorian architect and interdisciplinary designer working between the United States and El Salvador. He leads “Casas de Cartón – Rural Memories of the Dry Corridor,” supported by the Graham Foundation. Blanco holds a M.Arch from Yale University and a B.Arch from University of California, Berkeley. His research explores domestic architecture, geography, exhibition curation, and the cultural production of marginalized urban and rural narratives in Latin America, with a focus on Central America. He is the Emerging Scholar in Design at University of Texas, Austin and previously served as a teaching fellow at the Yale School of Architecture.
U.S.
Lindsay Harkema is an architect, educator, founder of WIP (Work In Progress | Women in Practice), and co-founding member of WIP Collaborative, an award-winning shared design practice. Her work embraces a feminist perspective, reimagining public spaces as opportunities for a more vibrant and restorative built environment. Harkema holds an M.Arch from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Her independent and collaborative projects are supported by AIANY, Design Trust for Public Space, Graham Foundation, NYSCA, and Urban Design Forum. She has taught at Barnard College, Cornell University, The City College of New York, The New School, and Syracuse University.
U.S./Hong Kong
Justin Hui is an artist and architect whose work investigates memory and archives, exploring how form shapes our understanding of history, experience, and identity. Working primarily in model-making, photography, film, and installation, his projects experiment with reconstruction and representation, blending forensic research with narrative and visual inquiry. Hui holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell, where he received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal, and has worked at Herzog & de Meuron and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
Switzerland
Michel Kessler is a Zurich-based architect, filmmaker, and writer. In 2022, he founded michel.kessler+associates, an architecture and research practice investigating the infrastructural, material, and medial conditions of contemporary spatial production. His work has been recognized with the Foundation Award for Innovation in Architecture (2024) and the City of Zurich Literary Fellowship (2022). His short film, Under the Ice (co-directed with David Oesch), received the Méliès d’Argent for Best European Short Film at Grimmfest, U.K. In 2017, he participated in the Dramenprozessor at Theater Winkelwiese with the play Pentheus.
Canada
Lisa Moffitt is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of Graduate programs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is founder of Studio Moffitt, a practice with a portfolio of speculative and built projects. Moffitt’s research focuses on the distilling lens of the architectural model — understood as both scale physical artifact and as mental ideal. This is the subject of her book, Architecture’s Model Environments (UCL Press, 2023) and associated travelling exhibition. Her current research, EarthWorks: Architecture’s Regenerative Material Models, uses scale models and prototypes to explore the tectonic possibilities of raw (cement-free) earth and fiber construction.
Malta
Ella Fleri Soler is a Maltese architect working at the intersection of architecture, art, and design pedagogy. She maintains an independent practice and co-founded Text Catalogue, a research-led collective producing artistic installations, critical writing, and workshops engaging spatial, cultural, and political conditions. The collective exhibited in Malta and Berlin, following a 2025 residency at Spreepark Art Space. Soler holds an M.Arch from the University of Malta, is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty for the Built Environment, and was appointed Chair of Design in the Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association in 2025.
U.S./Spain
Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán is a designer, researcher, and educator based in the United States. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture, and co-founder of Estudio Latente. His work explores the spatial, cultural, and political implications of infrastructure and digital networks at the intersection of design, technology, and territory. Terán has taught at Cornell, Syracuse University, and Montana State University. His projects have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and the Cornell University Biennial. He holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Cornell, degrees in Architecture and Urbanism from the Universidad de Alcalá, and is a registered architect in Spain.
U.S./China
Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work concerns architecture, culture, and environment through design and digital media. Using smoke, images, and objects as generative mediums, she explores architecture’s mobile relationships with its users and the planet. Zhang has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at 'T' Space, DesignTO, A+D Museum, A83, UC Berkeley, and London Design Festival, among other venues. She was a finalist for the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021. She authored Pamphlet Architecture 37, Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids.
U.K./Poland
Asia Zwierzchowska is an architect, artist, and educator. After receiving her M.Arch from the Royal College of Art, she gained professional experience at Stanton Williams and the Turner Prize-winning collective, Assemble. She currently leads large-scale public sector retrofit housing projects, with a focus on decarbonization and fuel poverty. Zwierzchowska is a mentor at the University of Westminster and has taught at the Birmingham School of Architecture & Design. Her personal practice is defined by research-driven projects, including a public installation for the London Festival of Architecture and a solo exhibition on Jewish heritage in provincial Poland.