Urban Studies

Biography

Tei Carpenter graduated in 2005 from Brown and then received a Master’s of Architecture at Princeton. She is currently a Wortham Fellow at Rice University’s School of Architecture as the Wortham Visiting Lecturer. She founded her own architectural design practice, Agency-Agency this past summer. Tei is currently working on a beach house renovation in Cape Cod which will be complete in May and a 20,000sf office building in downtown Houston for a mentoring non-profit called Big Brothers Big Sisters which will begin construction in March. Thi Spring Tei curated a lecture series titled “Plug-Ins” on behalf of the Rice School of Architecture and Rice Design Alliance.