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"Obscured Typology": Co-Housing Project has been selected as a Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards for the TYPOLOGY > RESIDENTIAL > Unbuilt - Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors) category.

Raveevarn will serve as a design critic for the End of Semester Final Reviews at the Cooper Union School of Architecture on May 6, and at Cal Poly SLO_LA Metro Architecture Program, on June 10-11, 2021

Raveevarn will serve as a design critic for the End of Semester Final Reviews at Texas A&M on Nov 18, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, NY, on Dec 3, and MIT Architecture on Dec 7, 2020.

Ambient House is selected to be a part of Radical House: Redefining Domestic Architecture For The 21st-Century, UNESCO World City of Architecture, Rio de Janeiro, July 2020, Contemporary Space Athens, Athens, Greece, September 2020, The Chicago Athenaeum Chicago, Illinois USA, March 2021. Its accompanying publication will be published by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. in Spring 2020.

Grace Street Live/Work Project is published in an online architecture magazine Archello

Raveevarn will give a talk at The University of Tokyo, Japan on "Discursive Practice"

Raveevarn will give a talk entitled “Grayscape” at Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea.

Raveevarn will serve as a design critic for the Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea.

Three projects by five undergraduate students, Parama Suteja, Tiange Wang, Yunbo Yan, Felix Yiu, and Margaret Zhou in Raveevarn's Studio at UC Berkeley Spring 2018, were selected to be a part of the exhibition “Two Sides Of The Border: Reimagining the Mexico–United States region” at Yale Art & Architecture Gallery on November 29, 2018 - February 9, 2019 and from 16 March – 25 April 2019 at AEDES Architecture Forum, Berlin, Germany.

Grace Street Residence, was published in Homes for Our Time: Contemporary Houses around the World, edited by Philip Jodidio, published by Taschen Books.

Raveevarn will serve as a design critic for the Spring Final Reviews at University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design and California College of the Arts.

Raveevarn served as a design jury to to assess Prototyping Tomorrow research proposals. “Prototyping Tomorrow” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning.

Grace Street Live/Work was reviewed by Sarah Amalar in Wallpaper*.

VeeV was written up in "Wonder Wall, Grace Street Live/Work", in Art4d issue #259, Architecture/ Design & Arts Magazine.

VeeV was written up in "A San Francisco Live-Work Gem," WORKSPACE, 99U, ISSUE NO. 16, ADOBE

Grace Street Live/Work, was selected to be published in GA HOUSES 154, A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo & GA Photographers, Japan (2017 Issue).

Grace Street Live/Work was selected to be exhibited in New American Architecture, at Contemporary Space, Athens, Greece, presented by The Chicago Athenaeum, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The project was also published in Global Design + Urbanism XVII: New American Architecture, by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

Grace Street Live/Work was written up in The Best of SF Annual issue under Radical Transparency, by Andy Wright, San Francisco Magazine.

VeeV received "Best Interdisciplinary Design Firm Award California" awarded by Build-News, an online global news of construction industries, based in Staffordshire, UK.

VeeV's project will be part of international exhibitions, New American Architecture, at Contemporary Space, Athens, Greece, presented by The Chicago Athenaeum, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies

VeeV received an American Architecture Award for Grace Street Live/Work from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies.

Raveevarn will give a talk entitled “Grayscape” at Texas Tech Universit sy, El Paso, Texas, on March 9.

Grace Street Live/Work, was published online as a part of AIACC Design Award online Publication & Archive as well the AIASF Design Award Publication.

Grace Street Live/Work received a 2016 Design Merit Award in Architecture from The American Institute of Architects California Council

VeeV's project was among 2016 AIASF Design Award Winners, announced in Architect Magazine

Grace Street Live/Work received a 2016 Design Merit Award in Architecture from The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter

Raveevarn will take part in a panel discussion at SPUR, in San Francisco, CA, as part of “Architecture Next Now," on July 27.

Raveevarn will give a talk on the work of VeeV Design as part of a panel discussion to celebrate The NY Architecture League “Thirty Years of Emerging Voices” at The California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA, on November 2.

Raveevarn will give a talk at ELS Architecture and Urban Design, in Berkeley, CA on October 22. The talk is entitled, “Play (With) Time."

Raveevarn will serve as a design critic for the Spring Final Reviews at The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ambient House and Grace Street Live/Work projects were selected to be exhibited at ASA 2015, an annual architecture exhibition organized by the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, at Challenger Hall Impact, Bangkok, Thailand

Raveevarn was selected as one of the 90 global outposts amongst 314 candidates from 42 countries, to collaborate w/ the 8 partners of OfficeUS, headquartered in the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale

Chasing The Shore, an urban scale Public Art Installation proposal for the City of Norwalk, Connecticut was shortlisted among 200 submissions to compete in the second stage of a Public Art Design.

VeeV received a Design Citation Award in Unbuilt Architecture Category for Ambient House, Jin Hai Lake, Beijing and a Design Citation Award in Interior Architecture Category for the renovation of 232 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley, from the AIA San Francisco Chapter

Raveevarn was among designers included in Form, Idea, Resonance: Thirty Years of Architectural League Emerging Voices, edited by Anne Rieselbach, published by Princeton Architectural Press

VeeV Design was written up in San Francisco Business Times.

CED News announcement recognizing its own faculty, Raveevarn Choksombatchai led her design practice VeeV to received a Design Citation Award in Unbuilt Architecture Category for Ambient House, Jin Hai Lake, Beijing and a Design Citation Award in Interior Architecture Category for the renovation of 232 Wurster Hall, from the AIA San Francisco Chapter.

VeeV Design's Project 232 Wurster Hall received a 2014 AIA SF Design Honor Award for Architecture Interior Category

Raveevarn was invited to take part in Transdisciplinary Conversation organized by Swissnex, San Francisco, on January 24, 2014

The EEL Project by VeeV Design was showcased online on January 30, 2013 in LLGA/Cities Pilot, The Future Project as part
of citymart.com

VeeV's Project, Field Rupture was among projects selected to be featured in Landscape Installation Art, A Bilingual Chinese/English Publication, Tianjin Ifeng Space Media Co., Ltd, 2013

VeeV Design's Project Bangkok_Hyperreal was selected to be exhibited at Mapping and Its Discontents, a symposiuhosted by UC Berkeley's Global Urban Humanities at the David Brower Center, Nov. 1, 2013

Raveevarn's presented Bangkok_Hyperreal, in a Juried Presentation for a ACLA International Interdisciplinary Conference: 2013 Global Positioning System, held at University of Toronto, Canada

Raveevarn served as a design critic for the Spring Final Thesis Reviews at University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Raveevarn served as a design critic for the Fall Final Thesis Reviews at University of Maryland, College Park, and The California College of the Arts.

Raveevarn served as a jury member for a collaborative design workshop between King Monkut's University of Technology Thonburi and Kyoto University. This workshop was led by Waro Kishi of Waro Kishi + K.Associates/ architects

Raveevarn gave a talk at BAR Architects, San Francisco, CA on March 6, 2012. The talk is entitled, “Small Projects Big Ideas.”

VeeV Design's Project Space in two Folds, was featured in CA Home and Design in the issue on 10 kitchen + bath commandments, July/
August p.78

The EEL, was selected to be exhibited at ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies, the 32nd Annual Conference 2012 of the Association for the Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Oct 18 - 21, 2012. The project was also included in the Conference Catalogue.

Raveevarn was written up in The New York Times, "In a San Francisco Home, a Vibrant Mix of Life and Work" by Sara Amelar

Raveevarn was invited as a speaker in a panel for Urbanization Around the World at Swissnex, San Francisco, CA.

VeeV Design's Project, Field Rupture, was featured in Yanko Design. The same project was also published in Archdaily and suckerPUNCHdaily.

Two Memorial Designs, the Tsunami Memorial & Museum and The AIDS Memorial were selected to be featured in ArchDaily

VeeV's Project, RAM WALL was selected to be featured in Antarte, a Portuguese design website in 16.06.2010 and designboom.

Raveevarn, together with her former partner Ralph Nelson received an Emerging Voices in Architecture Award honored by the Architecture League of New York. They were written up in the New York Times in "Architecture for a New Century"

Raveevarn presented the design research work and take part in the Research Practice Symposium, California Polytechnic State, San Luis Obispo

VeeV Design was listed as 2008 Ten to Watch by California Home & Design Magazine

Raveevarn was interviewed in Conversation with Architects Series Vol.2, Thai Languange, Li-Zenn Publishing, June 2008

The Unfolding House, Bangkok, was featured in Contemporary World Interiors, edited by Susan Yelavich, Phaidon Press

Raveevarn's Fall 2005 Graduate Design Studio at UC Berkeley was written up in Architecture, September Issue on Architecture Lessons entitled "Handle With Care".

The Unfolding House, Bangkok, was selected to be featured in World House Now, Universe, Rizzoli International 2003

The Unfolding House, Bangkok, was featured in Dwell, Vol 3, in the article “Bangkok Unfolded”.

A LIve/work project Squeeze Play received a Progressive Architecture Award and published in the 49th P/A Award Issue, 01.2002. The project was also exhibited at the Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 01.4-12.2002

The Woman Suffrage Memorial received a Visionary Design Progressive Architecture Award in 1998. The project was featured in Architecture Award issue in 1998, and was featured as a finished work in Architecture 11.2000 and Art 4 d, Architecture/ Design & Arts Magazine, Thailand, No. 71 05. 2001

Raveevarn as a founding partner at Loom Studio was included in “Design Culture Now” the first Design Triennial Exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute, New York City. The catalogue for the show was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Liquescence was created as an architecture installation in one of the light courtyard of the Museum as part of the exhibition.

The Folded Plate, Rug designed for the Tibetan Modern, Architects Collection for Elson & Company was selected as product design of the year 2000 by the Abitare Magazine

The Folded Plate and Ice Plate designed for the Tibetan Modern, Architects Collection for Elson & Company was written up in the New York Times on 09.30.1999. These two rugs were also acquired by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of the permanent collections

Knox Garden, received a Progressive Architecture Award in 1996 and was featured in Architecture, P/A Award Issue 05.1996 and the complete work was published in Architecture in 05, 1997