News
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
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