Office Party is an international research and design collective specializing in the production of temporary events, installations, and exhibitions. The office critically examines the role of parties and similar ephemeral spaces as the origin of complex social and material networks with urban, political, and environmental effects. Office Party further investigates the ways that parties provide insight into the development of architecture as a temporary and responsive mode of space-making through written and editorial work.

Office Party is led by Chase Galis, Christina Moushoul, and Sonia Sobrino Ralston.

Chase Galis (he/him/his) is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at ETH Zürich jointly appointed between the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) and the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (lus). He obtained his Master of Architecture degree from the Princeton University School of Architecture in 2021 where he was awarded the History and Theory Prize and a certificate in Media + Modernity. While at Princeton, Chase was an editor of Pidgin and an assistant instructor in the school’s graduate and undergraduate design programs. Chase previously worked as an exhibition designer for institutions including the Amant Foundation and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and he has worked as a curator leading exhibitions including Architecture Arboretum (2019) under Sylvia Lavin and assisting various projects at Materials & Application under the direction of Jia Yi Gu.

Christina Moushoul (she/her/hers) is the Assistant Editor at e-flux Architecture and the R&D Associate at the Museum of Modern Art. She obtained her Master of Architecture degree from the Princeton University School of Architecture in 2022 where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize and the History and Theory Prize. While at Princeton, Christina was an editor of Pidgin and a co-founder of Salon Series. Christina previously worked for the media artist Refik Anadol, serving as project manager and designer for projects such as WDCH Dreams (2018) and Das Paradies (2018) at the LA Phil, among others. She was the curatorial assistant for Model Behavior (2022) curated by Cynthia Davidson and Architecture Arboretum (2021) by Sylvia Lavin.

Sonia Sobrino Ralston (she/her/hers) is the Research and Teaching Fellow in Art + Design at the Northeastern College of Art, Media and Design, and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania at the Weitzman School of Design. She obtained her Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Digital Design Prize, the Norman T. Newton Prize, and the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize. She previously obtained her Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize and a certificate in Media + Modernity. During her studies, Sonia was an editor of Pidgin, as well as supported the work of the metaLAB at Harvard. Sonia served as the Assistant Curator for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale on the theme “Edible; Or, the Architecture of Metabolism” under Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou, and recently helped to lead “Setting the Course,” an exhibition and conference on landscape architecture pedagogy at the Harvard GSD alongside Rosalea Monacella.

Office Party’s work has been generously supported by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the Princeton University High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Princeton University School of Architecture, Harvard ARTS FIRST, NEW INC, and the Fabian & Nobuko Foundation for Queer and Mixed Heritage Practice.

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