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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 practice prioritizes poetics to explore spatial themes on form, environment, agency, and sensuality. Her larger body of art–architecture–research works are quietly forming
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architectonics for collective rest. She works on personal and commissioned projects worldwide.
Previous work and collaborations include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM, Chicago and NYC), Park Books (Zurich), OMA/AMO (Rotterdam), the Graham Foundation (Chicago), Storefront for Art & Architecture (NYC),
The Funambulist Magazine
(Paris), and
Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy
(Berlin/Toronto), amongst others, with technical design, research, editorial, consulting, and strategy. Her writing has been published by MIT Press, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW),
Art Papers
, Yale
Paprika!
, and
DISC: Media, Technology, Environments.
Fulbright Germany Independent Scholar / Master of Architecture II, Harvard University / Bachelor of Architecture, Iowa State University
Email for curriculum vitae, portfolio, inquiries.
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