We are happy to introduce Emmett Zeifman as one of our jurors for #mOOO4 competition.

Emmett is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia GSAPP, a principal of Medium Office, and founding editor of Project. He was the 2013-13 Yale Bass Scholar and his work has been exhibited and polished widely, including at the A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Yale School of Architecture.

Previously, he taught graduate and undergraduate design studios and visual studies seminars at SCI-Arc. He was the 2013-14 Yale Bass Scholar in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he received an M.Phil. His dissertation re-examined Robin Hood Gardens in relation to the Smithsons’ work on housing, landscape and urbanism. He completed his M.Arch at the Yale School of Architecture, and his Honors B.A. in English literature at McGill University.

In 2015, in collaboration with Constance Vale, Zeifman completed the Central Hub, a temporary pavilion in downtown Los Angeles for the experimental opera Hopscotch. He is co-editor of the book Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super-Dense (2014).

Emmett’s professional work