Jia Yi Gu is an architectural scholar, curator, and designer whose projects explore the materiality of buildings and the history of cultural techniques in architecture. She develops research and curatorial projects, publications, and programs about architecture and its wide-ranging practices. As an architectural historian, her research examines the history of material experimentation by architects with a focus on testing protocols, mock-ups, and experimental infrastructures through which architects explored material processes such as weathering. With Kate Chiu, she co-curated the Getty PST ART project Material Acts, an interdisciplinary exhibition and material library exploring experimentation in design and architecture at the intersections of architecture, craft, and science, presented at Craft Contemporary. For over a decade, she served as director and curator of two small and unusual architecture institutions, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles-based project space for experimental architecture. She is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College, co-director of the architecture studio Spinagu, and Board Vice President of the Feminist Center for Creative Work.