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Archinect Celebrates 20 Must-Watch Emerging U.S.-Based Architecture Practices, by Katherine Guimapang & Alexander Walter, July 4, 2023 


Freedom in Practice: Soft-Firm's Lexi Tsien and Talitha Liu on Community, Models of Care, and Staying Grounded, by Julia Gamolina, Madame Architect, January 18, 2023


Wallpaper Magazine: Soft-Firm, US: Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2022, by Shukri Sultan, October 6, 2022

Metropolis Magazine, Soft-Firm Empowers Communities by Reframing Social Paradigms, by Michelle Duncan, January 31, 2023


PIN-UP Magazine: Inside Soft-Firm’s Activist Space-Making, July 2022

FRAME Magazine (print and web): Wireless and Flexible, Soft-Firm’s ‘Phone Booths’ May Facilitate Remote Working On A Larger Scale (February 2022 Frame Challenge)

Next Progressives: Soft-Firm, Architect Magazine, October 2021 

PBS News Hour Weekend Edition, A new sculpture in the ‘heart’ of New York City symbolizes hope, nods to this past year

ABC News 10, “Want to show someone how much you love them? Leave them a message in Times Square”

Architectural Record, Times Square Arts Offers Soft-Firm’s Love Letters to New York City for Annual Valentine’s Day Installation

Untapped Cities, 12 New Public Art Installations in NYC February 2021

Architect’s Newspaper “Soft-Firm’s Love Letters named winner of the 2021 Times Square Design Competition”

Hybrid Activism w/ Bika Rebek at Columbia GSAPP (8/20)

Office Hours: How to Balance Teaching and Practice moderated by Esther Choi (6/20)

ADO Journal “Out Of Office - The Future of Work”, July 2019

Design TO Symposium Speaker: The Future of Work, January 2020 (Lexi Tsien)

Anti-Racist Design Praxis FAMU / Howard (10/20)

Architect’s Newspaper “Yale School of Architecture alumni send letter to administration demanding transformative action”

New Grounds for Design Education, New York Review of Architecture and the Architectural League, July 30, 2020

The Office As We Know It No Longer Exists, Azure Online and Print (10/20)

52 Years Later, New York Review of Architecture Issue No. 24, July 2020

Toronto Star (Online) ”With anti-Asian sentiments rising, Asian people are imagining what life will look like post pandemic”, May 2020

A+D Architecture and Design Museum (Online) “Virtual Reality”, May 2020

AN Interiors Magazine (Print) “Work Play”, October 2019

Metropolis Magazine (Online)“New Exhibition Contemplates the Past, Present, and Future of the Workplace”, August 2019

Core 77 (Online) “Explore the Evolution of the Office (and Possibilities for the Future) at A/D/O’s Latest Exhibition”, August 2019

DAMN Magazine (Online) “Out of Office at A/D/O: an exhibition about the development and future of the office environment.” July 2019

Surface Magazine “Soft-Firm, Tortuga Living, and Alex Gilbert: Out of Office”, July 2019

Plat Journal (Print) “Really Virtual”, September 2018

Depot Magazine (Online and Print) “Choose-York-Own-Kit”, August 2018

Future of Structure: Adidas Brooklyn Creator Farm: Architecture, Product, and the Sensorial (Panel), April 2019

Cooper Union In Transition, “Really Virtual”, Fall 2017

In Rem, Citygroup NYC, Fall 2018

Awards

Soft-Firm named Next Progressives by Architect Magazine 

Lexi Tsien named an Urban Design Forum fellow 2021

Teaching

Columbia GSAPP, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Lexi Tsien) 
Atlanta After Property (coordinator Emanuel Admassu, with Nina Cooke John, Chat Travieso, and Nupur Roy), Fall 2021
Power Tools (Lexi Tsien and Jelisa Blumberg), Spring 2021
Power Tools (Lexi Tsien and Jelisa Blumberg), Spring 2020
    Architecture Drawing and Representation I, Fall 2020
    Architecture Drawing and Representation I, Fall 2019
    Architecture Drawing and Representation I, Fall 2018
    Architecture Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2019
    Architecture Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2018
   

Yale School of Architecture
    Forthcoming: Advanced Studio with Brigitte Shim (Talitha Liu), forthcoming Fall 2022
    Core II Studio: Maintenance, (Lexi Tsien), Spring 2022 
    Advanced Studio with Adam Yarinsky: New Architecture and Landscape for the Rothko Chapel (Lexi Tsien), Fall 2018

Arts Creativity Global, China
    Design Incubator, Expert Tour: Body Tectonic, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Summer 2018

Rhode Island School of Design, Critic, Architectural Analysis, Spring 2018

Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture
    Drawing, Spring 2018, Drawing, Spring 2017
    Design I Studio, Animate Archi-Tectonics, Fall 2017
*Winner of Architect Magazine's Studio Prize

Parsons / New School of Constructed Environments, Part-Time Faculty
    Representation and Analysis, Fall 2017 - Recitation Leader
    Representation and Analysis, Fall 2016 - Coordinator


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