Event details
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
6:30 pm

Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 

Free. The event is at capacity; there will be a first-come, first-served standby line beginning at 6 pm the evening of the program. To be the first to know about new events, subscribe to our mailing list.

Join Madame Architect’s Kate Reggev for a conversation with Dia director Jessica Morgan and Architecture Research Office’s Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky about the design of Dia Chelsea. The conversation is introduced by Madame Architect editor-in-chief Julia Gamolina.

Julia Gamolina is the founder and editor-in-chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine focused on the extraordinary women that shape our world. Trained as an architect and with over a decade of experience across all aspects of design, business development, and communications, she is also an associate principal at Ennead Architects, New York, and teaches graduate professional practice and media courses at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her writing has been featured in A Women’s Thing, Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, and the Architect’s Newspaper, and she serves on the advisory board for Untapped New York’s Journalism Fellowship. In 2023 and 2024, Gamolina was included in Wallpaper*’s USA 300, a list of the people defining the creative landscape of the United States. In 2024, Madame Architect received the Architecture in Media Award from the American Institute of Architects New York. She earned her bachelor of architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, graduating with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for exceptional thesis.

Jessica Morgan is Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director.

Kate Reggev is an architect, project manager, historian, design writer, and educator with over a decade of experience in the design, construction, and preservation worlds. She is currently the project manager leading the design and construction of the Cohen Career Collective, a 160,000–square foot workforce training and educational center at LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City. Previously, she was a project manager at Zubatkin Owner Representation and an associate at the architecture firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, both in New York. Reggev also writes about architecture and design for publications like Architectural Digest and Dwell; teaches in the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University, New York; consults on preservation projects; and authors an historical column at Madame Architect. She’s been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Architectural Digest, and lectures across the country about architecture, preservation, and design. Reggev holds a master of architecture and a master of science in historic preservation from Columbia University, as well as a bachelor of arts in architecture, cum laude, from Barnard College at Columbia University.

Kim Yao, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York firm united in its collaborative process, commitment to accountable action, and social and environmental responsibility. ARO’s diverse body of work has earned the firm over 100 design awards including the 2020 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. Yao is a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University; Parson’s School of Constructed Environments at the New School; and Barnard College, all in New York. She has lectured throughout the United States and abroad. Yao has been awarded the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) Medal of Honor and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Mentorship Award. She was president of AIANY in 2020 and serves on the board of the Center for Architecture, also in New York. She holds a bachelor of architecture from Columbia University, and a master of architecture from Princeton University, New Jersey.

Adam Yarinsky, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal of Architecture Research Office (ARO). He is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at Harvard University, Cambridge; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Princeton University, New Jersey; Yale University, New Haven; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and other institutions. He has also lectured widely and written about ARO’s work. Yarinsky served on the board of Places Journal from 2012 to 2018, and he is on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. He was a Fall/Winter 2023 resident at the American Academy in Rome. Yarinsky holds a bachelor of architecture from the University of Virginia and a master of architecture from Princeton University.