CAMESgibson, Inc.
CAMESgibson is an architecture practice based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by registered architect, Grant Gibson, the small practice is committed to the production of culturally critical work. In the pursuit for a more progressive future, CAMESgibson undertakes a variety of professional commissions, speculative provocations, and academic work. The range of work can be quite perplexing at first glance, yet has a distinct aesthetic and character that has garnered attention.
CAMESgibson has been internationally published and exhibited. The Schiff Foundation named Grant Gibson the 2004 Fellowship as Chicago’s top architectural graduate. A decade later, The Chicago Architecture Club awarded him the Emerging Vision Prize. A year later in 2015, Architectural Record named CAMESgibson one of five promising practices in Chicago’s future. New City has him ranked among the 50 most important architects and designers operating in the city today.
Past individual recognition is in part due to Grant Gibson’s dedication to a broader intellectual milieu as an educator, speaker and writer. A clinical assistant professor, Gibson has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2006. He is the author of A Performed Memoir, published and exhibited by the Graham Foundation in Jimenez Lai’s Treatise Series. In 2017, he was the contributing character Felix of the Odd Couple in the architectural criticism magazine Flat Out #2. His fictional story Introducing the Black Bird will be published in MAS Context’s upcoming Character Issue.
Jacob Bower-Bir (PhD, M.Arch) is an occasional professor of politics and policy, a frequent international governance and security consultant, a founding member-owner of an architectural design worker cooperative (Design Anarchy Co-op), and the founding designer at an autonomous earthen construction company (Terran Robotics). In his academic work, Jacob studies the evolution of moral and social norms through economic experiments and surveys, and he design spaces (often made of earthen materials) meant to foster democratic, egalitarian interactions. He, like everyone, is a shill for the Market Economy. He's working on it.
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Design Anarchy Cooperative
A worker cooperative of architectural designers. We create spaces that foster democratic, egalitarian interactions.