Stephanie Choi works in architecture, installation and time-based media. In her research and teaching, she focuses on spatial justice in the built environment, specifically looking at how intersectional politics can shape environmental justice. Using the techniques of speculative fiction for world-building, she engages in material culture and artifacts to examine the role of technology in the creation of a self in relation to the social. Stephanie is the founder of architecture and design practice Daphne and was the Emerging Scholar Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for 2020–22. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany from 2014–16. Her work has been funded by the Graham Foundation and Artist Relief. She holds an MArch from Princeton and a BA in comparative literature from Stanford. Stephanie is licensed in the state of New York and recently taught at Rice Architecture.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ARCH 101G-03 - GRADUATE CORE STUDIO 1: SUBJECTS. TOOLS. PROCESS.
The first of three graduate core studios focus on iterative making and critical discourse to challenge disciplinary conventions and learn how to make self-authored design decisions in service of abstract spatial ideas. The agency of architecture lies in its capacity to be enactive. It is occupied, experienced and materialized; it constructs, organizes and extends relations among the many. Its forms, spatial orders, materials, and systems result from the designed consideration of physical and spatial interdependencies with the practices, habits and aspirations of its subjects. Providing a precise and specific set of tools and armatures, this first of three core studios introduces the art of architecture as a design process and language that activates, mediates and politicizes the built environment and its subjects.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $500.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch (2yr) and (3yr): Architecture
ARCH 2103-01 - (COUNTER)COSMOGONIES: RITUALS FOR THE (UN)DEAD
Rituals are performed in our day-to-day lives. They are both sacred and profane, loaded with ecumenical meaning, and/or devoid of theological origin. Rituals can be both ordinary and extraordinary, quotidian and divine. They come in different forms, and accordingly, rituals determine different forms and forms of life. This semester we will research mythologies embedded in our daily life. Ceremonies and rituals will serve as the chassis for us to plumb how we hold myths and stories in our imaginaries and our bodies. Rituals are spatial, temporal, and material practices. They are embodied performances and they span myriad genres and registers. Rituals function as states of exception, but in doing so, can reify the existing status quo. They can also embody liberatory potential and rupture world orders. Rituals will be explored as a world-making endeavor, a series of performances co-created and co-authored that reenact mythologies. The sonic and spatial registers of ritual procession will be looked at via scores and notations. This studio will be conducted as an experiment in collectivity. Sample outcomes could include an exhibition, archive, and/or publication. The intention is to create a body of work as a collection, but the process will be loosely determined as both a series of individual and group efforts. As a group we will determine the processes and outputs.
