Team

Katherine founded Latent to leverage civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have prototyped new urban design systems to advance urban agriculture, support small business, created spaces for youth makers, advanced building innovation, and created public space frameworks.

For the past 25 years Nicolas has designed + built a diverse range of Class A Office, Luxury + Affordable Residential, Community Centers, Hospitality, Education, Adaptive Reuse, Interiors, Exhibition, + Planning Projects throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He values quality design as an iterative process informed by the forces of site + circumstance, culture + climate, program + function. Nicolas has led talented teams of consultants + engineers to deliver clients award winning projects totaling over $3bn in construction cost.

Louisa Zheng is an architectural designer and artist interested in the mediation of physical spaces. Compelled by the sociopolitical frameworks that concretize into built environments and lived experiences, she works in various media such as community participatory processes, mapping, material studies, and other modes of documentation and design.

Priscilla is a painter and architectural designer. In her practice, Priscilla seeks to find the strength in moments of vulnerability within the built environment. She has worked for a decade to create meaningful programs, events, and installations to help grow creative communities, businesses, and organizations. In her painting practice, Priscilla uses the still life motif, working in private spaces and search for evidence that can be translated into works that create a sense of familiarity when placed in public spaces to foster a collective sense of place + belonging.

Damla is an urban and architectural designer who recently graduated from Illinois Tech with a major in architecture and a minor in Urban Studies. During her education, she gained an interest in the sociology of spaces and sustainability. She has recently received the LEED Green Associate certificate as a commitment to eco-conscious design and aims to foster a future where aesthetics, functionality, and environmental responsibility seamlessly converge. With almost two years of experience, Damla's goal is to use her skills and passion in urban design and sustainability to inspire design solutions that harmonize with the social and cultural intricacies of communities.

Daham is an architectural designer and researcher with professional experience across multiple scales of project and firm size. Prior to his time in practice, Daham completed his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Michigan, where his work revolved around the legal and economic frameworks that determine architectural production and with climate justice organizing amongst students and faculty. Daham has produced architectural installations, published writing, and organized symposiums, lectures and reading groups.