Lauren Gideonse

Lauren Gideonse is a Somerville-based architectural designer, artist, and researcher. She has a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MArch from MIT, where she was a recipient of the Master of Architecture Faculty Design Award, a Department Merit scholarship, the Schlossman Research Award, and a PKG Service Fellowship.

Prior to joining Neighbor Architects, Lauren practiced in exhibition design and fabrication. She has worked with IN-FO.CO in Los Angeles, Project Projects in New York, and Stock-a-Studio in Cambridge. Exhibitions that she has worked on include Dimensions of Citizenship for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Soft Schindler at the MAK Schindler House, Living in America for the Buell Center at Columbia University, and the permanent collection for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She has worked on signage systems for MoMA, Dropbox, and the Bass Museum.

Lauren has taught in the architecture departments at RISD and MIT. Her ongoing research is concerned with the trajectory of preservation and building longevity in the American context, particularly the re-invocation of pragmatic modes of adaptation, stewardship, and reuse.