Rate My Professor Georgina Baronian

Before joining Rice, Baronian gained professional experience in Tokyo, Japan, working for the offices of SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa) and Junya Ishigami + Associates on diverse projects including cultural venues, educational institutions, housing, and large-scale public art installations in Europe, North America, and Australia. Academically, she has taught at Cal Poly Pomona and Princeton University, and served as the 2022–23 Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellow at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. Baronian maintains ties to Japan through initiatives like the co-organized traveling exhibition Correspondence, pairing young architects from Japan and North America to renovate Arata Isozaki’s Shinjuku White House, supported by the Arts Council Tokyo Arts & Culture Creation Subsidy. Her firm clovisbaronian has received further recognition, including a finalist position in Concentrico’s international call for an Urban Climate-Responsive installation (2025), an honorable mention in the Architect's Newspaper Emerging Architects Project Award (2024), and an AIA Houston Design Award in the On the Boards category (2024).