tomi seyi laja
laja.tomi@gmail.com
Berlin, Germany

(b. 1996, Ibadan) is a Nigerian American architect, artist, researcher, and essayist currently based in Berlin, by way of Chicago. Working with sculpture, installation, drawing, and writing, her multidisciplinary practice prioritizes poetics to explore spatial themes on form, environment, agency, and sensuality. Her larger body of art–architecture–essayistic works are forming cool architectonics for rest. She works on personal and commissioned projects worldwide.

Previously, she has worked and collaborated with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chicago and NYC), Park Books (Zurich), OMA/AMO (Rotterdam), the Graham Foundation (Chicago), The Funambulist: Politics of Space and Bodies (Paris), and Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy (Toronto), amongst others, with design, research, editorial, programming, and strategic communications. Her writing has been published by MIT Press, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Art Papers, Yale Paprika!, and DISC: Media, Technology, Environments.