AFFECT-T is an abbreviation in closing; Affectionately often used by Marcel Duchamp in his correspondence with friends and fellow artists. The studio is conceived as a multidisciplinary design firm whose purpose is the creation of space, objects, and installations which are directly accessible through the visual, physical, and emotional experience of space. The studio is modeled on a historic progression of making spaces appropriate to the time we live in. Adaptability, openness, and environment stewardship are the chief aims of our built work.
Dylan Baker-Rice / Director
Dylan Baker-Rice founded AFFECT-T in 2009. He has pursued a varied career in architecture and design graduating from Appalachian State University with degrees in Anthropology/Sustainable Development and Construction Technology before earning his Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture. Initially working as a Designer and Project Architect in New York with Kevin Kennon Architects, Studio Commonwealth, and Asymptote Architecture. He later moved to London to work with Zaha Hadid Architects before starting the studio.
In parallel with his design work Dylan has contributed to various academic journals and publications, taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, and acted as an architectural critic at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, the Architectural Association, and The Univeristy of Hong Kong. Dylan Baker-Rice is currently an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University.
Damita Yu / Director
Damita joined AFFECT-T in 2009 after completing her Diploma in Architecture from the Architectural Association in London. She has contributed to numerous projects and guides the studio with her varied design background and unique experience. She briefly studied fashion at Central Saint Martins in London after directing a fashion boutique in Melbourne. She worked as an architect in Melbourne and later for BIG in Denmark and has an undergraduate degree in architecture from Melbourne University, as well as degree from Institute of Architecture + Urban Studies in New York.
Damita has contributed writings for the online architectural journals and continues her collaborative enterprises in the fashion world.
