J. Roc Jih (he/they) is principal of Studio J. Jih, Associate Professor of the Practice in the MIT Department of Architecture, and Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Their pedagogy and practice center on cultures of form, which they see as the frameworks by which material cultures, construction cultures, tools, identities, and regions shape architectural form.
J. is co-recipient with Skylar Tibbits of MIT’s Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant, which supports original, ambitious research agendas, for their research and prototyping of mono-material basalt construction systems. J. received their Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they were awarded the Faculty Design Award for Design Excellence.
