A story of two designers who met in 2021.
Since then, we have been developing a collaborative practice, with breaks and starts, together and apart. Essentally, we are friends moving in reflection.
So far, we have worked together on a book (2021), an event (2022), a radio show (2023-2026) and a few architectural projects (2026).
We were introduced to each other in a studio class called The City and The City, named after the book by China Miéville. This theme carries us forward to this day, expressing our distance and parallelism.
Overlaps and collisions actively occuring.
Since then, we have been developing a collaborative practice, with breaks and starts, together and apart. Essentally, we are friends moving in reflection.
So far, we have worked together on a book (2021), an event (2022), a radio show (2023-2026) and a few architectural projects (2026).
We were introduced to each other in a studio class called The City and The City, named after the book by China Miéville. This theme carries us forward to this day, expressing our distance and parallelism.
Overlaps and collisions actively occuring.
Riya Garg works in art, architecture and community building.
She loves creative process where relationships develop with the land and people. She currently lives in the Kootenays, where she has an interdependent design & research practice, with a focus on adaptive reuse projects. She thrives through the coordination of ideas and teams. (Nelson, Canada)
Rory Peckham’s work centres on the repurposing of existing structures.
He has received first place prize in The HODI Award in Built Heritage Conservation for Eyes Which See (Connect), a proposal exploring the reuse of a church. He was also awarded a fellowship from Columbia University GSAPP to study abandoned motels along Route 66. Professionally, he has worked with architecture firms in Toronto and New York City, contributing to detailed design development, including façade systems and construction-ready models. (Tokyo, Japan)
She loves creative process where relationships develop with the land and people. She currently lives in the Kootenays, where she has an interdependent design & research practice, with a focus on adaptive reuse projects. She thrives through the coordination of ideas and teams. (Nelson, Canada)
Rory Peckham’s work centres on the repurposing of existing structures.
He has received first place prize in The HODI Award in Built Heritage Conservation for Eyes Which See (Connect), a proposal exploring the reuse of a church. He was also awarded a fellowship from Columbia University GSAPP to study abandoned motels along Route 66. Professionally, he has worked with architecture firms in Toronto and New York City, contributing to detailed design development, including façade systems and construction-ready models. (Tokyo, Japan)
Rory
Columbia University
Master of Architecture, 2025
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Master of Architecture, 2025
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Both
Bachelor of Architecture, 2022
Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism