Liz Gálvez is a registered architect, directs Office e.g. and teaches as a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. She received an M.Arch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a concentration in history, theory, and criticism of architecture and a bachelor’s degree in architectural and philosophical studies from Arizona State University. She practices between New York City and Michoacán, Mexico. Her work focuses on the interface between architecture, theory and environmentalism through a re-examination of building technologies. Previously, Gálvez taught at the Rice School of Architecture and at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, where she was the 2018–19 William Muschenheim Fellow. She has practiced at architecture firms in the United States and in Mexico, including Will Bruder Architects and NADAAA. Her writing has been published in Thresholds, Footprint, Pidgin, Plat, Pool, Disc. and others. Her work has been exhibited at the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Austria, the University of Michigan, the Space p11 Gallery in Chicago, the Farish Gallery at Rice University, and at the University of Virginia. She was a 2022 Art Omi fellow, received the 2021 Rice Design Alliance Houston Design Research Grant and the 2016 Seebacher Prize for the Fine Arts. In 2021, she was awarded the Architectural League Prize.