Laura-India Garinois

Visiting Lecturer

Department

Architecture

Contact

B39 E. Sibley Hall
lag269@cornell.edu

Academic Research Areas

Architectural design
Architectural installations
Architectural practice
Architectural representation
Circular economies
Ecological practice
Film/video/sound
Infrastructure
Landscape architecture
Material practice

Laura-India Garinois is a designer, researcher, and educator working at the intersections of architecture, media, and the environment. Her work investigates the commodification of nature and the lifespan of building materials.

She is cofounder of Superinfra, a design-research practice working across architecture, infrastructure, and ecology.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Thessaloniki Design Week and ETH Zürich, and published in POOL Magazine, the Journal of Architectural Education, ASSOCIATION, and KoozArch. She has practiced at CODA, Hou de Sousa, Trimble Architecture, and White Arkitekter, among others.

She holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

Academic Research Areas

Architectural design
Architectural installations
Architectural practice
Architectural representation
Circular economies
Ecological practice
Film/video/sound
Infrastructure
Landscape architecture
Material practice

Over/Under, Winnipeg, Canada, 2016 (Superinfra)

Prosthetic Dialogues (short film), Andalusia, Spain, 2024-ongoing

Retreat, Susėja, Latvia, 2016 (Superinfra)

Goathouse / Studio, Cyclades, Greece, 2023 (Superinfra)

Designing for Urgency, gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, 2023

Unearthed (short film), Drama and Athens, Greece, 2024

Classes

Design III Generative Ecologies

ARCH 2101

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

MIT Spain Research Grant

Cambridge, MA 2024-2025
CAMIT Seed Grant

Cambridge, MA, 2023
Over/Under Installation

STUFFgroup, Winnipeg, Canada, 2016

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

Prosthetic Dialogues

Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2025
Beyond the Plot

Wiesner Gallery, MIT, 2025 (co-curator)
Doors to Ukraine: Designing for Urgency

gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023
Live Jacket

Thessaloniki Design Week, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018