Common Ground

​Common Ground is, above all, a device for dialogue. It is not a historical event but a territory of longing, one that speaks to architecture’s continual making, remaking, and unmaking of relations. Like points on a plane, the seven projects of this exhibition act (and react in turn) in non-linear ways to the worlds they inhabit. Negation, danger, permanence, ingestion, convention, heritage, and power—these elements, present in the work of seven architects, articulate a field defined by a distinct atmosphere. The distances between each operate as defining parameters of the space conducive to relationships that, without aiming to clarify anything, foster the construction of a new landscape. Common Ground emerges as a condition assembled from the footnotes of experience and memory, whether in the drawings of landscapes or building tectonics.

The seven projects exhibited in Common Ground are conducted in the context of the Post-Professional Master of Architecture program at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, where there is a unique opportunity for professionally trained architects to pursue a two-year program that culminates in a year-long thesis. The 2025 Post-Professional Master of Architecture Thesis class includes Mariam Arwa, Yuanyuan (Yuki) Cao, Tzuchun (Austin) Hsu, Chad Miller, Vinh Hung (Ryan) Nguyen, Ana Sevilla, Zee (Ruizi) Zeng, and is coordinated by Professor James Graham with Assistant in Instruction (AI) Shravan Arun.

Gallery hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 12–6pm, open to all.