Katherine hui
is dedicated to using design as an active agent for creating tangible social and environmental change. She graduated summa cum laude with a BArch at the Rice University School of Architecture, where her unique training in architecture, urban design, photography, construction, and fine arts has shaped her to be an interdisciplinary and diversely equipped creative leader.
At Rice, Katherine was involved in campus leadership roles in Rice Architecture Society, Design For America, the university newspaper, Rice Architecture’s Mentorship Program and Orientation Week for first-year undergraduates. Katherine was the recipient of the Wagoner and Mary Lovett Travel Fellowships, along competitive accolades from Rice Architecture, Texas Architecture Foundation, National Association of Women in Construction, and the New York State Builder’s Research and Education Foundation. She has worked at NYC-based offices Fete Nature Architecture, WXY architecture + urban design, and is currently a Designer at Dattner Architects, where she is pursuing architectural licensure and contributing to designing sustainable affordable housing and mission-driven, local work.
Katherine merges her design practice with photography to engage and reimagine the world. She brings her curiosity of light, perspective and spatial experience into urban and environmental research. In 2022, she pursued an architectural photography research fellowship in Portugal to understand how different cities and cultures have spatially responded to today’s intersecting pandemics— racial, economic, social, and health.
Committed to addressing social and environmental justice, Katherine’s diverse experiences have fueled her motivation to amplify the voices of local communities as an integral step in the design process. She works across different scales to enhance collectivity in cities, critically engage communities, and advance sustainable design.
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