Laura Veit is a designer and researcher based in Berkeley and New York City and originally from Napa, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of the Master of Architecture program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where she was the 2019 recipient of the Ali Jawad Malik Memorial History/Theory Honor Award. She has recently worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture and as a Teaching Assistant in the History and Theory of Architecture at GSAPP.
Laura’s studio projects have included public housing in Santorini, Greece, senior housing in New York and Tokyo, and ecologically-attentive infrastructure and housing in Vieques, Puerto Rico. In addition to researching the water crisis in Flint, Michigan while at the Buell Center, Laura has researched the history of fresh water sources in Vieques, and has written on the symbolic uses of water infrastructure (formal garden fountains, water treatment plant murals) in the landscapes of 17th-century England and 20th-century Mexico City.