2015 Traveling Fellowship for Architecture, Design, and Urban Design
Global/Local: Intergovernmental Architecture of Africa and Europe

Xiaoxi Chen Laurent
Columbia University

received her Master of Architecture Degree in May 2015 from the Columbia University where she was awarded the Total Design Prize for all-around outstanding performance in the design studio and seminar sequences. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed her final year at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette. Chen Laurent has worked in diverse and interdisciplinary offices and understands architecture as an inherently collaborative confluence of multiple fields, which allows for a more inventive and relevant process to address contemporary spatial issues. She believes that by pushing the limits of the architectural profession while successfully collaborating with other disciplines, architecture can provocate new social, political, and aesthetic relationships in complex built environments. She is based in New York City, where she is currently working with the office of 2x4.