Tatjana Crossley is an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who teaches architectural history and theory coursework and runs a design studio for M.Arch students that examines the sensorial in architecture. Her courses approaches architecture and design from the scale and experience of the body in space, the virtuality of experience and representational forms in architecture.

She is co-founder of architectural and research practice ArchiTAG. The practice tackles issues of the experience of space, architecture’s impact and influence in the development of subjectivity, and the production of space that challenges societal histories of discrimination. She and her partner at ArchiTAG explore technological aspects of design in order to propose new modes of perceiving and fabricating our environments.

Tatjana completed her PhD at the Architectural Association, Master’s at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (MArch II) and Bachelor’s at Rice University (BArch). She has worked in practice, for S.O.M. San Francisco, and academia, previously teaching at the Architectural Association in London and now at CUHK. Tatjana’s research focuses on the sensorial and psychology of immersive environments and virtual realities. She has been examining the development of the body image in relation to how the subject perceives space, themselves within it, and the “other”, using theories from psychology, philosophy, biology, technological sciences, art and architectural history.

For more information and to see some of her work: https://www.tatjanacrossley.com