Born in 1996 in Ibadan, Nigeria, Tomi Seyi Laja is an American architectural designer, researcher, and essayist currently based in Berlin. Working with sculpture, drawing, and writing, her practice prioritizes the politics of poetics to explore themes relating to formalism, agency, and sensuality. She works on personal and commissioned projects worldwide.

A graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design (2023), she is a 2023-2024 Fulbright recipient for independent research in architecture and Guest Editor at Disc Journal: Media, Technology, Environments.

Constructing micro-climates of the cool, her larger body of art-architecture-essayistic works form quiet architectonics for rest and listening, referencing thought by Darell Fields, Sylvia Wynter, and Edouard Glissant with central concepts on abstraction, interiority, andopacity. Her process embraces critical theory (on identity), practical assignments (on thermal conditioning), and field work (on landscape).

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