Adjunct

Educational Credentials :

• M.Arch, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, 2010
• BFA, General Fine Arts Major, Culture & Politics Minor, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2007

Teaching Experience :

• Adjunct Lecturer, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, CUNY, 2023-Present
• Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, 2023
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, 2021-Present
• Part-Time Faculty, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design, 2019-Present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, 2022
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art Department, Queens College, CUNY, 2018-2021
• Co-Anchor, Dark Matter U in partnership with Florida A&M University and University of Utah, 2021
• Visiting Critic, MFA Program, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2019

Professional Experience :

• Co-founder, Yeju & Chat, 2019-Present
• Independent Artist and Designer, 2013-Present
• Architectural/Urban Designer, WXY Architecture + Urban Design, 2010-2012

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

• Publications and Conference Papers:
• - Chat Travieso, “101 Ways to Refuse a Wall,” AD: Architectural Design 92, No. 6 (November/December 2022): 102–109.
• - Chat Travieso, “Field Notes on Design Activism: 7,” Places Journal, November 2022.
• - Chat Travieso, “Concrete Terror: Race Barriers and Vigilantism in the United States,” MAS Context 33 (Fall 2021): 236–249.
• - Chat Travieso, “A Nation of Walls,” Places Journal, September 2020.
• - Chat Travieso, “TXD: Making Public Space More Equitable,” Design Trust for Public Space Blog, 8/6/20.
• - Yes Loitering, “Yes Sitting, Yes Skating, Yes Music,” Urban Omnibus, 3/8/18.
• SELECTED PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
• - On End, done in collaboration with Yeju Choi as Yeju & Chat, commissioned by LAND Studio and the Cleveland Public Library as part of See Also, Cleveland, OH, 2022.
• - Up & Around, done in collaboration with Yeju Choi as Yeju & Chat, commissioned by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan as part of the Inside Art exhibition, New York, NY, 2020
• - Boogie Down Booth (174th St), Boogie Down Booth (Melrose),
• - Boogie Down (Youth) Booth, commissioned by WHEDco, The Bronx, NY, 2015, 2016, and 2019 respectively
• - On the Other Side, done in collaboration with Yeju Choi, commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council in partnership with Public Works, Cambridge, MA, 2017
• - We Call This Place Home, done in collaboration with Samuel Holleran, commissioned by NYCDOT in partnership with Hester Street, New York, NY, 2016
• - Kit-O-Cart, commissioned by the Elsewhere Museum as part of South Elm Projects, Greensboro, NC, 2015
• - Sit Anywhere: Borinquen Plaza, created through a Community Arts Fund Grant and a Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, 2014–2016
• - On a Fence, done in collaboration with Yeju Choi, Co-commissioned by Good Old Lower East Side, Hester Street, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Two Bridges Neighborhood Council as part of Paths to Pier 42, New York, NY, 2013–2014
• - CoolStop, commissioned by the NYCDOT Urban Art Program as part of Summer Streets, New York, NY, 2013
• - Word Play, sponsored by the Architectural League of New York, the PEN World Voices Festival, and Little Free Library, Ltd. as part of Little Free Library/NYC, New York, NY, 2013