Profile
Brittany Utting is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work explores the relationship between architecture and planetary practices of environmental care. Building upon these themes, her current book project examines the experimental infrastructures and spatial practices of climate research. She is the editor of the book Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of Log 60: The Sixth Sphere (Winter/Summer 2024). This special issue of Log laid the groundwork for the exhibition The Sixth Sphere, curated by Utting and exhibited internationally at the 7th Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, the Aedes Architekturforum in Berlin, and the Rice School of Architecture in Houston. Her writings have been published in The Avery Review, MIT Thresholds, e-flux Architecture, AA Files, Log, and the Journal for Architectural Education, of which she co-edited the special issue JAE 79:1 Architecture Beyond Extraction. Utting has been a MacDowell Fellow in Architecture, the Willard A. Oberdick Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and the Buell Center. She holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Utting is a registered architect in New York, and prior to co-founding HOME-OFFICE, she practiced at Thomas Phifer and Partners as project designer for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.