Current
Fellows
Ryan Ball is an architect and educator. His research focuses on issues of materiality, detailing, and performance embedded in methods of industrial production in architecture and the built environment. His pedagogy seeks to demystify the often unapproachable topic of building systems. Through the juxtaposition of familiar icons of postwar American suburbia, such as processed foods, losing sports teams, and pristine lawns, his teaching seeks to leverage participatory art practice techniques and examine the US cultural relationship with technology, labor, and class.
Olaia Chivite Amigo is a Spanish-Venezuelan architect, researcher, and educator. Her work uses graphic representation and mixed media techniques to develop spatial narratives that highlight how regulatory frameworks, intentions, or formal procedures shift or adapt through the continuous negotiation between public and private stakeholders, citizens, and users.
Angela Cho is an architectural designer, educator, and ceramicist based in Toronto and Ann Arbor. Highly manual and abundant in plaster and clay, her work grapples with philosophies and techniques of memory, preservation, scale, tactility, originality, and experiential sequence. Her design and pedagogy attempt to exacerbate natural tensions between index and mimesis, accident and control, movement and stillness, detail and context, and between different media, the latter often dissolving the conventional boundaries between disciplines. She has worked at Productora in Mexico City and Office of Adrian Phiffer in Toronto and collaborates with Phiffer on architectural competition projects. Cho has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, has exhibited internationally, and has attended artist residencies in South Korea and the United States. She has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University and at The University of Toronto, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in interior design and a master’s in architecture.
Tess Clancy is a designer and educator based in the U.S. and Rome. Her research and design lie at the intersection between architectural history, memory of place, and political power structures, specifically the complex role of public monuments and architecture’s capacity to augment and subvert the embedded power of a monument. She is particularly concerned with the potential for experimental representation to visualize and synthesize such intersections and augmentations. Her master’s thesis (Eroding the Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy on Richmond’s Monument Ave.) won the Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award for best M.Arch thesis. In 2023 she received the Robert James Eidlitz travel fellowship to fund an ongoing project, Architectures Against Fascism. Her work is published in the Cornell Journal of Architecture (Fear, Sp. 2020) and the Hyphen Journal (Penn State, 2023). She has taught studios and visual representation courses at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) and Penn State University and worked for New Affiliates in New York Labics in Rome. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College and an M.Arch from Cornell AAP.
Francesca Mavaracchio is an Italian architect and the co-founder of 4051, a multidisciplinary practice operating between Italy and Switzerland. Her research explores contemporary forms of visual representation and their potential physical manifestations in architecture. In 2023, she was a fellow at the MacDowell residency program in Peterborough, where she developed a series of works that translate relevant contemporary narratives into architectural elements. Francesca previously worked as an architect at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, contributing to projects across Switzerland, Italy, France, South Korea, and China. She holds an MSc in architecture, urbanism, and building sciences from TU Delft and a Bachelor of Science in urbanism from Politecnico di Milano.
