Daisy Ames

Design Critic in Architecture

Daisy Ames is a Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard GSD teaching Option Studio. She is the founding principal of Studio Ames, an architectural design and research practice based in New York City. Her education in anthropology and the history of art inform her design sensibility focused on living spaces, climate change and spatial composition.

The practice has been recognized with the Young Architects Award from The Architect’s Newspaper and as a winner of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Her published articles and representations reflect a body of research on domesticity and the environment.

Ames is a member of the faculty at Yale School of Architecture and Princeton School of Architecture where she teaches design studios.