Brittany Utting is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University in Houston, TX, and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work examines the relationship between architecture and planetary practices of environmental care. She is the editor of the book Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Log 60: The Sixth Sphere (Winter/Summer 2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Journal for Architectural Education 79:1: Architecture Beyond Extraction (Spring 2025). Her writings have been published in The Avery Review, MIT Thresholds, e-flux Architecture, AA Files, Log, and the JAE. Utting has been a MacDowell Fellow in Architecture, the Willard A. Oberdick Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and the Buell Center. She holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Utting is a registered architect in New York, and prior to co-founding HOME-OFFICE she practiced at Thomas Phifer and Partners as project designer for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.​

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Daniel Jacobs is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. His work focuses on environmental representation and mediation in architecture and the changing role of labor production in professional practice. He is the editor of the forthcoming book Architecture as Environmental Media: Rendering the Planetary (Routledge, 2025), and his writing has been published in Log, AA Files, The Architectural Review, The Avery Review, MIT Thresholds, JAE, and San Rocco. He previously served as the secretary of the National Organizing Committee of the Architecture Lobby and co-organized the first Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School (2021). His work has been exhibited internationally at Washington University in St. Louis, the Architekturmuseum at TU Berlin, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, and the Citygroup gallery in New York. Before joining the University of Houston, he taught as a Lecturer at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Yale University School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. Daniel is a registered architect in Texas and New York, and prior to co-founding HOME-OFFICE, he practiced as an Associate at SHoP Architects in New York.