Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Aviva works in multiple realms of architecture including exhibition design, curation, education, and research. She is the founder of Studio Aviva Rubin, designing exhibitions and small-scale interventions for such clients as the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Moody Center for the Arts, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and many others. Aviva previously practiced at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Urban Arts Projects, Lynch/Eisinger/Design, and SFMOMA. She has taught at Harvard’s Career Discovery and Boston Architectural College. Aviva sits on the advisory board of the Octavia Project and the programming committee at Materials & Applications. She was an Aspen Ideas Fest Scholar, a Mountain School of Arts resident, and an architect-in-residence at Art Omi. Aviva holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master in Design Studies from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Working both in and beyond the confines of traditional architecture, Aviva’s practice and research aim to bring together the human-scale experience of space with the social, the speculative, and the urban.
BArch – Carnegie Mellon University
MDesS – Harvard University