UCLA AUD Winter 2024 Events: Kelly Bair (MArch '05) and Kristy Balliet (MArch '04), "Core Work"

February 29, 2024, 5:30 pm, Perloff Hall Decafe

BairBalliet is a design venture invested in architecture in the form of both speculative and built projects, founded and led by Kelly Bair (MArch '05) and Kristy Balliet (MArch '04). BairBalliet works between Chicago and Los Angeles and specializes in graphics, objects, interiors, buildings and urban visioning. Bair and Balliet are also co-founders of Possible Mediums, a collaboration with Adam Fure and Kyle Miller, fellow designers and educators interested in shaking up the context and format in which architecture is taught, produced, and engaged.

Bair is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture and has also taught in Los Angeles at UCLA, SCI-Arc, and Woodbury University; Balliet is Design Faculty and Undergraduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc. Balliet was an Associate Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State, Assistant Professor in Studio Greg Lynn at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and faculty at University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia University. Bair and Balliet are each alumnae of UCLA AUD; Bair holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from University of Colorado, and Balliet holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Philadelphia University.