Georgina Baronian

Georgina Baronian serves as Assistant Professor and Director of the Rice Building Workshop at the Rice University School of Architecture, aligning with her expertise in Architecture and Design. She earned her Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Environments in Architecture from the University of Melbourne. A registered architect in New York and Texas, Baronian is also the principal of clovisbaronian, an architectural practice based in Texas. Her research and practice center on the interrelation of climate and aesthetics, exploring how conventional ideas of thermal comfort can be reimagined through spatial, experiential, and aesthetic dimensions. This focus manifests in full-scale prototypes like Cloud Canopy, which won the Next Generation Global Prize from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, and Paper Roof, funded by the Ohio State Energy Partners Grant. These projects investigate innovative, nonmechanical methods for conditioning outdoor urban environments.

Before joining Rice, Baronian gained professional experience in Tokyo, Japan, working for the offices of SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa) and Junya Ishigami + Associates on diverse projects including cultural venues, educational institutions, housing, and large-scale public art installations in Europe, North America, and Australia. Academically, she has taught at Cal Poly Pomona and Princeton University, and served as the 2022–23 Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellow at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. Baronian maintains ties to Japan through initiatives like the co-organized traveling exhibition Correspondence, pairing young architects from Japan and North America to renovate Arata Isozaki’s Shinjuku White House, supported by the Arts Council Tokyo Arts & Culture Creation Subsidy. Her firm clovisbaronian has received further recognition, including a finalist position in Concentrico’s international call for an Urban Climate-Responsive installation (2025), an honorable mention in the Architect's Newspaper Emerging Architects Project Award (2024), and an AIA Houston Design Award in the On the Boards category (2024).

Professional Email: georgina@rice.edu