Eve Nnaji
Eve Nnaji is an architectural designer who grew up in Houston, Texas, and currently practices in Lagos, Nigeria, her country of origin.
She is the founder of ADD.apt, a practice that uses architecture, design, and data as tools to connect environmental awareness with urban and societal development. She is also the founder of Even Designed, a brand that applies her architectural approach to creating products and designs that express her current state of being. Her research interests include urban flood mitigation strategies, design solutions for developing communities, biological fabrication methods, and material intelligence. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University and a Master’s degree in Advanced Architecture from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
Her publications include Strange is Better: An Effort to Biologically Convert Polystyrene Into Organic Matter Using Mealworms (Creative Food Cycles, 2020) and Water We Talking About? (RESPONSIVE CITIES: DESIGN WITH NATURE SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, 2021).