Celia Chaussabel

Celia Chaussabel is an architect and educator currently based in Buffalo, New York, where she is the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellow at University at Buffalo. Her creative practice is focused on how narratives and aesthetics shape cultural perceptions of construction waste. Celia’s work speculates on what it would mean for the architectural profession to consider the sourcing, maintenance, and re-circulation of materials as critical design work. She designs architecture, furniture, exhibitions, video games, animations, and other mediums that bring awareness of the life cycles of the materials that make up the built environment.

Celia is also co-founder of NOT NOT, a design practice exploring overlooked dimensions of architecture as sites for political and creative inquiry. NOT NOT projects often begin with constraints such as construction debris, material temporality, maintenance, and zoning loopholes to investigate cultural aesthetics and potential. NOT NOT’s design work has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, Salone del Mobile in Milan, and Princeton School of Architecture.

Celia previously worked at Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis as a designer and researcher on the Manual of Biogenic House Sections (ORO Editions, 2022) and at Bellastock in Paris and Rotor in Brussels on research around material reuse. She holds a graduate degree from MIT (SMArchS 2025) and is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University (B.Arch 2019). She has previously taught at MIT and Tecnologico de Monterrey.