New York, NY

gloriamah@outlook.com

Small Footprint. Big Impact.
Gloria is an architectural, urban, and experiential designer.

Title: X-Ray City, collage.

Gloria holds an accredited Bachelor’s of Architecture from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University GSAPP. “Small Footprint Big Impact” represents a series of stories that tests the possibilities of the future.

Summer Reading!
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach,
- Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg,
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

A cat shelter designed and fabricated for Architecture for Animals with Stantec. Meghan bob Photography.

Making Kin with Biomaterial interactive exhibition at 1040 Space for Ideas, NY with Columbia GSAPP.

Virtual reality experience with Unreal Engine 4.

Design Impact:

Designers are always understood as solving a problem. Artists, intellectuals, and writers are expected to ask questions, to make us hesitate, to see our world and ourselves differently for a moment, and therefore to think.

Why not design that produces thought-provoking hesitations in the routines of everyday life rather than simply servicing those routines? Why not design that encourages us to think? Design as an urgent call to reflect on what we and our companion species have become?

Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
are we human?