Title: Raveevarn Choksombatchai: Open end
In this talk, Prof. Choksombatchai will discuss her design practice.
Raveevarn Choksombatchai is a professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley and a Founding Principal of VeeV Design since 2005; she was also a Founding Principal of Loom Studio from 1993–2003. As the recipient of three Progressive Architecture Awards and Citations (1998, 1996, 2002); Emerging Voices in Architecture by the Architecture League of New York (1999); a nominee for the Chrysler Design Award (2000); and for the National Design Award by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (2002), Raveevarn left Loom Studio where she co-founded, to establish VeeV Studio and continues to produce work with consistent focus in spatial and material investigation emphasizing temporal aspects, particularly in the realm not exclusively visual. Founded in 2005, VeeV was short-listed for two major international competitions, the National AIDS Memorial (2005), and the Tsunami Memorial and Museum (2006), and was included among a distinguished pool in an Architecture and Design Exhibition at the Seoul Design Olympiad in 2009. In 2014, Raveevarn was also selected as one of the 90 global outposts amongst 314 candidates from 42 countries, to collaborate with the 8 partners of OfficeUS, headquartered in the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her work continues to be recognized for its design merits – Beyond Quantities (AIA Design Award in 2007), Cut + Fold (AIA Design Award in 2007), Ambient House (AIA Design Award in 2014), 232 Wurster (AIA Design Award in 2014), and Grace Street Live/Work (AIA Design Award in 2016 and AIACC Design Merit Award 2016). In 2017, Grace Street Live/ Work also received the American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies. In 2021, The Co-housing Project in Ayudhaya, Thailand received a Special Honorable Mention by Architizer A + Awards.