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 the Rice chapter for Design For America, Head Photo Editor at the Rice Thresher, Coordinator of the Rice Architecture Mentorship Program and advisor for first-year undergraduates. During her time at Rice, Katherine was the recipient of the Wagoner and Mary Lovett Travel Fellowships, along competitive accolades from Rice Architecture, Texas Architecture Foundation, National Association of Women in Construction, New York State Builder’s Research and Education Foundation, and the Long Island Builder’s Institute. She completed a year-long Preceptorship at WXY architecture + urban design before studying in Paris for Fall 2024. She currently pursuing architectural 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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