Grace Alli is designer, researcher, and educator based in New York City. Currently, she works as a Senior Project Designer at Porto Architecture. Grace has taught graduate and undergraduate design studios at Columbia University GSAPP in New York and Lawrence Technological University in Michigan. Additionally, Grace has worked at design offices in New York, San Francisco, and Detroit.
Her research is interested in unearthing narratives that challenge accepted historical narratives. Through investigative spatial inquiry, she examines how ideas of national identity and cultural memory are constructed. From 2020-2023, she conducted research and design for the exhibition, Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism: The Machine at the Heart of Man, at Onassis Stegi museum in Athens.
Grace completed her B.S. in architecture at University of Michigan, where she was awarded first place in the Wallenberg undergraduate prize for her project, Contested Ground: Unearthing L'Enfant's Washington. She received her M.Arch from Columbia GSAPP, where she was a recipient of the Kinne Award for sponsored research on the topic of Re-programming religious architecture and the Institute of Cultural Monuments in communist Albania. She has been an invited critic at City College of New York, Barnard College, Lawrence Technological University, Cooper Union, University of Michigan, and Columbia GSAPP.