Currently... Elena is working at CAHA Design on local cafes and food halls, dabbling with her friends at bugs studio (shop here!) and lecturing for the M.Arch program at The School of Architecture (FKA Taliesin West)

Elena Bouton
Architectural Designer
Oakland

Elena Bouton M. Arch

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Elena is an architectural worker living in Oakland, California, where she likes to design, garden, break things, fix things, sew, and build furniture.

For her thesis, titled ‘Ingrown’, Elena was awarded the 2021 Ciampi Art in Architecture Award. For research, titled ‘Loopholes and Extralegal Architectures’, she was awarded 2020 Branner, Stump, and Beckerman Travel Fellowship. Elena is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley Master of Architecture and completed a Bachelor of Science at McGill University in Geography and Environmental Health.

She was the 2020-2021 co-editor of the award-winning architecture journal, Room One Thousand. RM1000 published it’s first collaborative issue, Issue 9: Breaks, sponsored by the Graham Foundation.

Elena has worked as an architectural designer, graphic designer, studio assistant, design studio instructor, teacher, drafter, cartographer, and spatial analyst, lifeguard, server, hostess, babysitter, and dogwalker. 



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