Katherine hui

is dedicated to using design as an active agent for creating tangible social and environmental change. Graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in Architecture at the Rice University School of Architecture, she was trained in the unique combination of fine arts, architecture, construction, photography, and urban design, which have shaped her to be an interdisciplinary and diversely equipped creative leader.

At Rice, Katherine was involved in campus leadership roles as the President of Rice Architecture Society, Co-President of Design For America Rice, Head Photo Editor at the Rice Thresher, and Orientation Week Advisor for first-year undergraduates. She also held roles as the Coordinator of the Rice Architecture Mentorship Program and team lead for a national human-centered design project with YMCA USA. During her time at Rice, Katherine was the recipient of the Wagoner Foreign Study Fellowship, Mary Lovett Traveling Fellowship, Rice Architecture Class of 1965 Scholarship, and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Scholarship. She is currently pursuing a B.Arch at Rice and working toward licensure.

Katherine merges her design practice with photography to engage and reimagine the world. She brings her curiosity of light, perspective and spatial experience into urban and environmental research. In 2022, she pursued an architectural photography research fellowship in Portugal to understand how different cities and cultures have spatially responded to today’s intersecting pandemics— racial, economic, social, and health.

Committed to addressing social and environmental justice, Katherine’s architectural education and extracurriculars have fueled her motivation to amplify the voices of local communities as an integral step in the design process. She has volunteered with the grassroots, youth-driven and multidisciplinary coalition Climate Urgency in the Built Environment (CUBE) to bridge built-environment industries with activism. In the future, she hopes to work across different digital and physical mediums that pay attention to the political aspects of architecture, critically engage communities, and advance sustainable design.

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