ABOUT

This WORK represents the pursuit of understanding place and the space it defines.

Anastasia was born in Memphis, TN, and raised with music, dance, photography, and architectural design, all things which shaped a particular seeing of the world. Gathering these interests into an education and career, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Memphis, with a concentration in Photography and Sculpture, and a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design.

As an Architectural Designer, her pursuits in drawing, making, photography, sculpture, exhibition design/installation and furniture production continue to influence her work. Currently, Anastasia lives and works in Rhode Island and Vermont.

Before founding A L / STUDIO, Anastasia worked with Friedrich St.Florian Architects, Oblique Studio, KPF, Richard Fleischner Studio, and buildingstudio.

EDUCATION

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Master of Architecture | 2009
Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship | 2006-2009

University of Memphis (Tennessee)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography|Sculpture | 2001
Cum Laude
Dana D. Johnson Fellowship Award | 2000-2001

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

A L / STUDIO | Providence, RI / Waitsfield, VT| 2019 - Present
Founder/Principal
Design/Build Practice

Yestermorrow Design/Build School | Waitsfield, VT | 2020 - 2023
Director of UMass-Yestermorrow Semester Design/Build Program, Design/Build Faculty

Oblique Studio | Providence, RI | 2015 - 2020
CoFounder, Principal Designer, Project Manager
Design/Build Studio, Architectural Design, Project Management, Coordination with clients, sub-contractors and fabricators

School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation | Roger Williams University | Bristol, RI | August 2015 - May 2020
Adjunct Faculty, Architecture Design Core Studio I & II

Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI | 2009 - Present
Visiting Critic in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Foundation Studies Departments

Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI | February 2018 - December 2018
Critic, Interior Architecture Department

DownCity Design | Providence, RI | July 2016 - October 2018
Board of Trustees Member

StudioMEJA | Providence, RI | 2014 - 2016
Senior Architectural Designer, Project Manager
Design, Project Management and Coordination with clients, contractors and fabricators

Site Specific | Providence, RI | 2013 - 2014
Architectural Designer, Assistant Project Manager
Design/Build studio and shop space with focus on residential, commercial and institutional work

KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox) | New York, NY | January 2012 - June 2013
Architectural Designer I on the Hudson Yards project in New York
Design, Coordination with clients and fabricators
Assistant to Editor for KPF Monograph published November 2012

Fleischner Studio | Providence, RI | 2010 - 2012
Architectural Design and Fabrication in collaboration with Richard Fleischner

DownCity Design | Providence, RI | Teaching Fellow | 2010 - 2012
Educator in Architecture and Design for Providence After School Alliance

Sharif Guest Studio | Providence, RI | Cambridge, MA | Fabricator | October 2009 - May 2010
Design, Fabrication and Installation for gallery exhibition 'Inside Jobs' (Projects: RISD 01, RISD 02)

Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI | Graduate Teaching Assistant
Architectural Design Studio | 2008
Design Principles | 2008
International Symposium for Environmental Design and Architecture in Nagoya | Summer 2008
assistant to RISD Professor Silvia Acosta in drawing workshop

buildingstudio | Memphis, TN | Architectural Intern, Exhibition Coordinator | 2003 - 2006
Contributed to the design of projects, meeting with clients, construction drawings and models
Photographer of projects on site and museum installations
Assisted in the construction of the Samuel Mockbee SubRosa Pantheon, Newbern, Alabama | 2004

Estes, LLC | Memphis, TN | Assistant to Furniture Fabricator | 2002 - 2003
Assisted in production of furniture; wood shop, welding, painting

EXHIBITIONS

RISD Museum | Providence, RI | Outpost Journal 04: Providence Opening | 2014 www.outpostjournal.org

The Storefront | Providence, RI | Current Event Print Exchange | 2011

Providence Art Windows | Providence, RI | '...like a Shadow of Time' | in collaboration with Kathryn Foley | 2010

Bayard Ewing Building Gallery, Architecture Department of RISD | Providence, RI | 'No Architect is an Island' | 2008

Jack Robinson Gallery | Memphis, TN | 'fifty-six minutes from houston' | solo photography show | 2006

Jack Robinson Gallery | Memphis, TN | group photography show | 2005

The Art Museum at the University of Memphis | Memphis, TN | 'Light Enfolded into Sky Enfolded into Water Enfolded into Glass' | in collaboration with buildingstudio | 2005

The Ewing Gallery, College of Architecture and Design, University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | 'Parts Seen Within The Background of the Whole' | in collaboration with buildingstudio | 2004