e+i studio
Tools for Multispecies Fluorishing
2024
e+i studio is an architecture and design practice based in New York City, founded by partners Eva Perez de Vega and Ian Gordon. The work of e+i examines the built environment’s capacity to contribute affirmatively to human well-being while also taking nonhuman life into account.
Increasingly engaged in critically assessing architecture in the context of the global climate crisis, e+i advocates 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.
The work of e+i has recently received a grant from the Architectural League of New York to explore multispecies interventions and has received past support from the Architectural League, the New York Foundation For the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Manhattan Council Art Fund, Architecture For Humanity and Emerging New York Architects, among others. It has been exhibited in New York at the AIA Center for Architecture, Van Alen Institute, Max Protech, RIVAA art gallery, Parsons New School For Design, as well as internationally at the Milan Design Fair, Venice, Rome, Madrid, Stockholm, and Seoul.
past work
Posthuman, Chinatown Gateway
Posthuman Eyewear
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Eva Perez de Vega
Eva Perez de Vega is an architect, designer and educator, cofounder of e+i studio in NYC.
She is professor of Architecture at Pratt and at Parsons, having previously taught at the UPenn Landscape Architecture School and Princeton School of Architecture. Prior to establishing e+i studio, Eva was lead design architect at Reiser + Umemoto.
She holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Madrid, School of Architecture (ETSAM) specializing in Building Structures has professional dance training from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in NY and holds a master’s in Philosophy from the New School For Social Research, with a certificate in Gender and Sexuality studies, where she is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy.
Eva has organized multiple symposia and panels around themes of Climate Crisis, Animal Ethics and Design & Gender. Most recently Eva presented at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen for Design Inclusivity the Nonhuman panel; organized a panel discussion between faculty and students at the Gender Matters Symposium at the New School; and co-organized and chaired the Voice panel of Climate Collectivisms conference. She was also part of the organizing team for the conference With/In Environments at the NSSR. Her research explores how ecofeminist frameworks can help us radically rethink the engagement with the built environment.
Eva has lectured and presented widely at academic conferences, including at Oxford for British Society For Aesthetics, the two Architecture + Philosophy conferences held in Boston, and a number of ACSA conferences, as well as panels on Climate Crisis talks, Animal Ethics and Ecofeminist theory.
Originally from Rome, Italy, she has been in New York City since 2001.
Ian Gordon
Ian Gordon is a licensed architect in New York State with professional experience working in New York, North Carolina, and Madrid, Spain. He received his Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) and graduated with honors from Columbia University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from NC State University and has a background in Fine Arts. Prior to e+i studio, Ian worked as an architect for Studio Daniel Libeskind working on a range of international projects.
Ian is an adjunct professor at New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), Parsons the New School for Design, and New York City College of Technology (NYCCT). He teaches a wide range of Architecture, Interior Design, and 3D modeling courses. Ian grew up living in various countries in Africa, as well as Rome, Italy. Originally from Manilla, Philippines, with an American-French background Ian has travelled significantly before settling in New York City in 2001.