“Museum on Parade” Fredi Fischli + Niels Olsen Studio Harvard GSD w/ Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2023. w/ Kaleb Swanson.
“Museum on Parade” Fredi Fischli + Niels Olsen Studio Harvard GSD w/ Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2023. w/ Kaleb Swanson.
“Museum on Parade” Fredi Fischli + Niels Olsen Studio Harvard GSD w/ Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2023. w/ Kaleb Swanson.
“Pillows over Pools: Co-operative Housing for Gourmet Rest” Jenny French Studio Harvard GSD, 2023. w/ Hana Kim."Square House" Traverse City, Michigan. w/ Ryan Van Middelsworth.
"Square House” Traverse City, Michigan. w/ Ryan Van Middelsworth.
"On Enchantment" Lecture performance w/ Ben Denzer, UChicago. Chicago Architecture Biennale. “Bookscapes” curated by Marya Kanakis.
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", Guest co-editor Tomi Laja
. Launch Party @ Floating University, Berlin.
"Proofing", US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, stock-a-studio, w/ Zak Slonsky, Adrian Tsou. Website design w/ William Pan
“The Museum Between the Square and Palace” The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Fredi Fischli, Tomasz Fudala, and Niels Olsen, exhibition design Centrala"Proofing", US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, stock-a-studio, w/ Zak Slonsky, Adrian Tsou"Drive-Thru", Rumor, Princeton SOA, 2020. Review of Manetti Shrem Museum by SO-IL."Architecture as Measure," Pavilion of Turkey, Venice Biennale of Architecture. 2021. Curated by Neyran Turan."Architecture as Measure," Pavilion of Turkey, Venice Biennale of Architecture. 2021. Curated by Neyran Turan."Algarve Apartments," David Jaehning Architect, 2020."Heatshield", Barkow Leibinger Schaufenster. Malte Wilms +
Moritz Riesenbeck
w/ exhibition text by Carson Chan.
DISC, Issue 2.0 "Intimacy"
DISC, Issue 2.0 "Intimacy," super stuffed edition, launched @ Bungee Space + Materials & Applications"Proofing", US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, stock-a-studio, w/ Zak Slonsky, Adrian Tsou"Bodybuildings," M.Arch I Thesis, Harvard GSD, 2025. Advised by Jenny French, John May.RECORDAR, models for Deborah Garcia, MIT Keller Gallery + Exhibit Columbus
RECORDAR, models for Deborah Garcia, MIT Keller Gallery + Exhibit Columbus
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", Guest co-editor Tomi Laja, Animation Adrian TsouDISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", launch party ETH Zürich D-SPACE w/ Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", Guest co-editor Tomi Laja, Animation Adrian Tsou
“Museum on Parade” Fredi Fischli + Niels Olsen Studio Harvard GSD w/ Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2023. w/ Kaleb Swanson.
"Fashion," Paprika!, 2021. w/ Angela Lufkin, Betty Wang, and Anna Sagström.
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", Guest co-editor Tomi Laja, Animation Adrian Tsou
“Rendering Air Revisited: On The Imaginary Breeze” Log 58, 2024.
"Bodybuildings," M.Arch I Thesis, Harvard GSD, 2025. Advised by Jenny French, John May.
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", Guest co-editor Tomi Laja, Animation Adrian Tsou
“Floating Library” Neiheiser Argyros, Harvard GSD, 2024.
"Four Cones" Mosswood Meltdown, Pneustars / Adam Miller, animation Oliver Moldow."Pneu History," Architecture Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2021. w/ Oliver Moldow, Remi McClain.
“The Phantom Jacket: Le Corbusier and the Obscured Legacy of The Forestiere” Antwerp Museum of Fashion “Fashion and Interiors: A Gendered Affair” 2025.
"Pneu History," Architecture Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2021. w/ Oliver Moldow, Remi McClain."Fashion," Paprika!, 2021. w/ Angela Lufkin, Betty Wang, and Anna Sagström. Merch collaboration with Boot Boyz Biz / Kevin McCaughey.
“Pillows over Pools: Co-operative Housing for Gourmet Rest” Jenny French Studio Harvard GSD, 2023. w/ Hana Kim.
"Algarve Apartments," David Jaehning Architect, 2020.
“Pillows over Pools: Co-operative Housing for Gourmet Rest” Jenny French Studio Harvard GSD, 2023. w/ Hana Kim.
DISC, Issue 3.0 "Enchantment", launch party @ Floating University, Berlin
"Bodybuildings," M.Arch I Thesis, Harvard GSD, 2025. Advised by Jenny French, John May.
“Museum on Parade” Fredi Fischli + Niels Olsen Studio Harvard GSD w/ Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2023. w/ Kaleb Swanson.
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Ian Erickson is a designer, writer, and curator based between Berlin and New York City. His work explores material systems and media cultures. He is currently a fellow at NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator, and works at Barkow Leibinger.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of DISC, a publication and curatorial platform exploring design and media. In summer 2026, he is a tutor for AA Visiting School Berlin “A Shrinking Archipelago,” revisiting 1977’s Green Archipelago by O.M. Ungers and Rem Koolhaas.
Ian was previously a member of the curatorial team for the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, "Architecture as Measure," and a research fellow at Rhizome. His work and writing have appeared in Log, Vestoj, MOLD, Paprika, Pidgin, and The Brooklyn Rail, as well as in the exhibition catalogue Fashion & Interiors for the Antwerp Museum of Fashion. His individual and collaborative work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, at a83 in New York, and is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. He has practiced with studios including Leong Leong, ANY, Mork-Ulnes, Stock-a-Studio, and The Open Workshop.
He interviewed Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons on the runway of Prada's FW21 Menswear show and has lectured at the University of Chicago for the 2024 Chicago Architecture Biennial and at WSA.
Ian holds an M.Arch I from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was a Dean’s Merit Scholar, and a B.A. with a Certificate in New Media from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Departmental Citation in Architecture.