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March 15, 2026

Spinagu is the winner of Small Lots, Big Impacts Design Competition

Spinagu was named a Professional Winner in the Small Lots, Big Impacts competition, organized by cityLAB‑UCLA, LA4LA, and CIty of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office. Their proposal, titled Households, is housing design for five units but feasibly ten households. It’s a subdivision experiment to disrupt the architectural habits of the single family, to find bridges between households, generations, and living arrangements. […]
March 15, 2026Mar 2026
July 16, 2025

KoozArch Interview: Exploring Feminist, Material, and Process-Based Curatorial Strategies in Material Acts

In July 2025, Jia Yi Gu, Kate Yeh Chiu and Olga Subiros were featured in an in-depth interview on KoozArch, where they delved into the feminist, material, and process-driven curatorial approaches that underpin the Material Acts project. Gu discussed the ways feminist perspectives inform the exhibition’s emphasis on process, highlighting how these strategies foreground often overlooked labor and material histories […]
July 16, 2025Jul 2025
July 15, 2025

Design Museum Essay Contribution: “Living Materials”

Jia Yi Gu contributed the essay titled “Living Systems: From the Geologic to the Metabolic” to the catalogue accompanying More-Than-Human, a landmark exhibition at the Design Museum, London. Published in Summer 2025, the essay explores the entanglements between architecture, ecology, and biological life, examining how living systems operate across scales—from the geologic to the metabolic—in shaping material and spatial practices. […]
July 15, 2025Jul 2025