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Gabriel Cira
Title:
Visiting Lecturer
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Tower 541
Education:
2014 - MArch, Princeton University; 2008 - BSAD Architecture, Comparative Media Studies Minor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience:
Built work
- 2022 - Secret Garden, new 1500sf greenhouse and community-use classroom and landscape/exterior spaces in East Boston MA (with Jena Tegeler)
- 2022 - Black History In Action, historic preservation of a 1886 Black church in Cambridge MA, adaptation for use as arts and culture space
Exhibitions/Research
- 2021 - The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship with James Heard and Emma Pfeiffer — Exhibition at Pinkcomma Gallery sponsored by The Graham Foundation and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown
- 2019 - Bizarro Beach, Boston MA — Architectural installation commissioned by the ICA Boston
- ongoing - The Emerald Tutu — scientific research, prototyping, advocacy, and community work around nature-based infrastructure for coastal climate resilience
Publications
- 2022 - Face to Face (introduction to Wendy Jacob and Jeffrey Mansfield), Boston Art Review #8
- 2022 - Less than Heroic (interviewed by Dan Roche), New York Review of Architecture #25
- 2021 - Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing, Art Papers 44.03
- 2020 - Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices, MAS Context
- 2019 - Loitering, Legibility, Disability with Emily Watlington, Art Papers online
- 2019 - Spaces of Labor, Architectural Labor #2
- 2019 - Performing Arts Access, Art Papers, 42.04
- 2018 - Signs and Architecture, Pre-Vinylite Society Journal #1
- 2018 - The Emerald Tutu, project profile, Boston Art Review #2
- 2018 - Blueprint for Counter-Education , Big Red & Shiny online
- 2018 - Semiotic Structure as Context: Inscriptions at Harvard GSD , Big Red & Shiny online
- 2017 - Lobbying for Value with Peggy Deamer and The Architecture Lobby, ARQ #97
- 2012 - 2014 - Reverse History, Mixed Metaphors, The A and the E, Nova Organa #1, #2, #4
Awards
- 2019 - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) innovation award in Sustainable Engineering for The Emerald Tutu
Professional Affiliations
- American Institute of Architects
- Boston Society of Architects
- The Architecture Lobby
Professional Experience
- 2017 - present - ARCH CIRA, Cambridge MA
- 2015 - 2017 - EJA, Cambridge MA
- 2014 - 2015 - Isozaki, Aoki & Associates, Tokyo
- 2009 - 2011 - R&Sie(n) Architects, Paris
- 2008 - 2009 - dECOi, Cambridge MA
- 2007 - 2008 - Höweler+Yoon, Boston MA
Connect
- arch-cira.com
- Instagram: @arch_cira
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