Chase Galis
Chase Galis 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). His work traces multiscalar histories of infrastructure development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a focus on their visual, cultural, and environmental legacies. He obtained his Master of Architecture degree from the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he was awarded the History and Theory Prize and a certificate in Media + Modernity, and was an editor of Pidgin. He has worked as a curator leading exhibitions including cover me softly (2024), with Oana Stanescu and Simina Marin, and Architecture Arboretum (2019), under Sylvia Lavin.
Office Party is the recipient of a 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, a juried portfolio competition for early-career practitioners in North America, organized around a yearly theme. Other recent projects include Party: A Pedagogical Experiment & Clean Up, with Unmasking Space, a workshop in the form of a party, designed to generate critical and counter-discourses of the hosting institution, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, and a multimedia installation documenting the cleaning procedure for the party that encourages viewers to consider the documentation of temporary gatherings; and Garden Party, a multimedia installation that creates a party environment for plants with music and light designed to complement their biotic needs.