Eva Perez de Vega
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biography
Eva Perez de Vega is an architect, educator, and founding partner of architecture and design practice e+i studio based in Chinatown, NYC. Prior to co-founding e+i studio, she was lead design architect at Reiser + Umemoto.
At e+i Eva engages in projects of multiple scales that contribute affirmatively to human and nonhuman wellbeing. Increasingly engaged in critically assessing architecture in the context of the global climate crisis, e+i advocating for rethinking the human-centric quality of architecture towards a multi-species approach by choreographing spaces and environments that promote interaction, aesthetic innovation and ecological empathy.
As an exploration of these overlaps, e+i exhibited Project Speciation at the Venice Biennale in 2021, and published, Choreographing Space: a monograph that brings Eva’s philosophical thought with her architectural practice to address the role of architecture within the climate crisis. Moving towards a multispecies practice she has presented work at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen, the British Society of Aesthetics in Oxford and co-chaired, multiple ACSA conferences and organized and presented at panels on Climate Collectivisms, Animal Ethics and Ecofeminism.
Education
PhD in Philosophy from the New School For Social Research with a certificate in Gender and Sexuality studies, receiving a dissertation award for The Architecture of huMan Exceptionalism: Redrawing our relationship with other species.
MA and MPhil in Philosophy from the New School For Social Research.
M.Arch and B.Arch degrees in Architecture from the University of Madrid, School of Architecture (ETSAM) specializing in Building Structures.
Professional Dance Certificate from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in NY.
Publications and Projects
Most Recent Publications:
2024
▪ Book chapter in Climate Collectivisms. Proceedings of the AHRA Conference on Climate:
“The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism” ed. Alicia Imperiale, New York: Routledge, 2024 (forthcoming)
▪ Book chapter in Design for Inclusivity. Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen: “The Architecture of (Hu)man Exceptionalism. Redrawing our Relationships to Other Species.” in Design for Inclusivity eds. Magda Mostafa, Ruth Baumeister, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke. 6667-677. Cham: Springer Nature, 2023.
2023
▪ Book chapter: “In-Between Body and Image” in Architecture, Film, and the In-between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt, eds. V. Vahdat & J. Kerestes. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2023.
▪ Peer Reviewed (blind) for In Commons, ACSA Annual Conference Proceedings: “The Architecture of huMan exceptionalism”
2021
▪ Book Publication: Choreographing Space. London: Artifice Press Books on Architecture, Oct. 2021. Monograph printed book on work and genealogy of e+i studio with EPerezdeVega’s theoretical writing.
▪ “Musing: Spinoza and Feminism Question the Structures of Domination. Is the Mind-Body Problem a Gender Problem?“ The Oxford Philosopher. Published by direct invitation from the editors. Oxford Philosopher is an online philosophy journal, with a mission to make philosophy inclusive and accessible.
▪ Oxford Journal of Aesthetics, Nov. 2018, Conference proceedings, blind peer reviewed
▪ “Spinoza and Feminism: Questioning the structures of domination” published on Public Seminar
by Invitation of Chiara Bottici. Public Seminar is an intellectual commons for analysis, critique and debate, linked to the New School for Social Research.
▪ CER International Magazine, print & Cover with special feature article of e+i project Strada Dinamica
▪ Grand Stand 6, Designing Stands for Trade Fairs and Events. Published by Frame Magazine, print
▪ Peer Reviewed (blind) text for: The Ethical Imperative, ACSA Proceedings “The Body of Architecture and Its images”