Gabrielle Printz is an architectural researcher, writer and designer based in New York. She is a co-founder of feminist architecture collaborative. f-architecture is a winner of the 2019 Architecture League Prize; their work has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Girls Like Us, ED, Log, Thresholds and Real Review, and at UN-HABITAT III, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Lab at Darat al Funun, the Frac Centre Val-de-Loire, and the 2019 Triennale di Milano.
Gabrielle is currently working on a Ph.D. in Architecture History and Theory at Yale. Her project focuses on the cultivation of non/national "Human Resources" through the development of social infrastructure projects in the Arabian Peninsula in the late 20th century. In particular, she's interested in how the construction and operation of hospitals, universities, and housing settlements depended on a stratified system of expatriate labor that was instrumental to the reproduction of a Saudi Arabian national body. And in general, she studies correspondances between labor, architecture, and citizenship.
📄 "Human Resources in Times of Crisis," Avery Review no. 50 (Dec. 2020).
📄 "The Incubator Incubator, the Administration of Leaky Bodies, and Other Labor Pains," Harvard Design Magazine no. 46 (F/W 2018).
📄 "Good Prison, a World Premiere," Avery Review no. 37 (Feb. 2019).
Her past research has explored landscapes of detention and the spatial and performative networks which connect border and prison. This exploration manifested in the web-based project C-A-R-TRIP.US, an award-winning thesis for the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture Program (MS.CCCP) at Columbia University GSAPP. Among her other efforts to see curious and spatial entanglements of bodies, media, and the law, C-A-R-TRIP attempts to visibilize the larger apparatus of US migrant detention as situated in an extended territory of bodily apprehension along the US/Mexico Border.
Gabrielle is an associate editor of the book Bodybuilding: Architecture and Performance (Performa, 2019) with editors Charles Aubin and Carlos Minguez Carrasco, and a co-editor of the book Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering Models of Practice with Joyce Hwang and Martha Bohm, published by Actar in 2015. Beyond Patronage is a project which acknowledges emerging design practices and architectural actors which operate outside the conventional, structural relationship between architect and patron. The life of the project exists in a series of conversations with design practitioners, held at institutions including the Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and SAIC's Sullivan Galleries as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
📚 "Conscious Skins," an advanced architecture studio with Abeer Seikaly at Yale School of Architecture (Fall 2021).
📚 "Ford Foundation Funded: Institutional Operations in a Developable World," a studio in the Advanced Architectural Design program (AAD) at Columbia University GSAPP (Summer 2021).
📚 "Too Much Future: Technological Sentiments in Crisis," Graduate Seminar (Intellectual Domain), Situated Technologies Research Group, B/a+p (Fall 2020).
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