The Rice School of Architecture welcomes Michael Abel Deng and Nile Greenberg, founding partners of Abel Nile New York (ANY), for their lecture, Abel Nile New York Texas 2025. ANY is a partnership in architecture, scenography, theory, and design, synthesizing structure, materials, culture, organizations, and media into architectural projects recognized for their intellectual rigor and cultural engagement. AIA New York recognized ANY as part of New Practices New York (2020–2023).
Michael Abel Deng is a founding partner of ANY and Chief Design Officer of Homer. He has presented ANY’s work at ETH Zurich (Newrope Chair), Spazio Maiocchi, the AIA Center for Architecture, Princeton University, and the Cooper Union. His writings and dialogues have appeared in PIN-UP, Flash Art, Rumor Review, Disc Journal, KALEIDOSCOPE, and The Brooklyn Rail. He co-edited Copies in an Age of Network Culture (recipient of a Graham Foundation grant) and has worked with MOS Architects, MILLIØNS, and Khoury Levit Fong. Abel holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto.
Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of ANY and Architecture Editor at The Brooklyn Rail. His work focuses on the relationship between architecture and art, with recent projects including guest-editing the 2025 Flash Art Volumes on “Crisis Formalism” and co-authoring The Advanced School of Collective Feeling (Park Books, 2023). He edited Two Sides of the Border (Lars Müller, 2020) and curated the related exhibition at Yale. His work has been presented at the 2025 Venice Biennale, ETH Zürich, Cornell University, Spazio Maiocchi, and other international venues. Greenberg has taught at Columbia GSAPP and has worked with MOS Architects, SO–IL, and Leong Leong. He holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund; the William B. Coleman Jr. Colloquium Fund for Architecture; and the Wm. W. Caudill Lecture Series Fund.