Violette de la Selle

Violette de la Selle

Critic

Violette de la Selle is founding member of citygroup, an architecture collective and project space in New York City. In addition to exhibitions and regular gatherings, citygroup hosts Dialogue not Monologue, a debate series Violette co-organizes that challenges the habits of architectural practice through sustained conversations among many participants.

Violette earned her Masters in Architecture at Yale and her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. At Yale, she co-edited the journal Perspecta 49: Quote. She has also published writing in Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, E. Pelkonen, Ed. (New York: Phaidon, 2018) and San Rocco 66.

Violette has previously worked at SHoP Architects in New York and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in London.

Education
BS, University of Virginia
M.Arch, Yale University

Courses

2250
Spring 2025
Demo: Demonstration Projects for the Viable Reuse of Aging Buildings
Violette de la Selle
1011
Fall 2024
Architectural Design I
Cara Liberatore, Can Vu Bui, Nicholas McDermott, Michael Szivos, Violette de la Selle, Maria Rius Ruiz
1011
Fall 2023
Architectural Design I
Brennan Buck, Violette de la Selle, Cara Liberatore, Nicholas McDermott, Nancy Nichols, Michael Szivos
1117
Spring 2023
Advanced Design Studio: A particular (New England) building
Carrie Norman, Thomas Kelley, Violette de la Selle
1011
Fall 2022
Architectural Design I
Brennan Buck, Can Vu Bui, Violette de la Selle, Cara Liberatore, Nicholas McDermott, Nancy Nichols, Michael Szivos
1112
Spring 2022
Advanced Design Studio: VERI_PLEX Center for Alternative Cinema
Joe Day, Violette de la Selle
1105
Fall 2021
Advanced Design Studio: Re-Move/Re-Mix
Caroline Bos, Violette de la Selle
1105
Fall 2020
Advanced Design Studio: Productive Uncertainty
Marc Tsurumaki, Violette de la Selle
1105
Fall 2019
Advanced Design Studio: Archipelago
Elia Zenghelis, Violette de la Selle