The Unbearable Tightness of Building

Liz Galvez is a registered architect, directs Office e.g., and teaches as a Visiting Critic at the Rice School of Architecture. She holds an M.Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pursued her undergraduate studies in architecture and philosophy at ASU. Her work focuses on the interface between architecture, theory, and environmentalism. Gálvez was the Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2018–2019. Office e.g. was awarded the Architectural League Prize in 2021.

Lizzie Yarina is a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and a doctoral student at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where she investigates the spatial politics of climate change adaptation. Previously was Research Scientist at the MIT Urban Risk Lab, and a Fellow with Fulbright New Zealand. Yarina holds a joint Masters in Architecture and Masters of City Planning from MIT.

Claudia Bode holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and is a PhD candidate in international urbanism. Her published work focuses on intersections between architecture and (alter)urbanisms. Academic collaborations have included the MIT Urban Risk Lab and the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin. She co-founded the Kujenga Collaborative, a design nonprofit working to promote resilience in rural Tanzania. Currently, Claudia is a project manager for mass timber projects at MTTR Architekten und Stadtplaner. She lives in Berlin.