Chase Galis, Christina Moushoul, Sonia Sobrino Ralston of Office Party

Founded in 2021, Office Party is led by Chase Galis, Christina Moushoul, and Sonia Sobrino Ralston. The research and design collective produces temporary events, installations, and exhibitions internationally that investigate “the role of parties and similar ephemeral spaces as the origin of complex social and material networks with urban, political, and environmental effects,” in the firm’s own words. In addition to live events, Office Party publishes written and editorial work, such as the collective’s journal Party Planner, further exploring the concept of parties with interdisciplinary collaborators across media formats.

Recent projects include:

• Party: A Pedagogical Experiment & Clean Up, with Unmasking Space, a workshop in the form of a party, designed to generate critical and counter-discourses of the hosting institution, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, and a multimedia installation documenting the cleaning procedure for the party that encourages viewers to consider the documentation of temporary gatherings 
• Party Planner, Vol. 1-3, an annual architecture and design publication that uses the term “party” as a concept to explore gathering and social interaction as forms of space-making
• Garden Party, a multimedia installation that creates a party environment for plants with music and light designed to complement their biotic needs

Chase Galis holds a bachelor of arts from University of California, Los Angeles and an MArch from Princeton University. Galis is a lecturer at ETH Zürich. 

Christina Moushoul holds a bachelor of arts from University of California, Los Angeles and an MArch from Princeton University. She is an assistant editor and program curator for e-flux Architecture and an R&D Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art.

Sonia Sobrino Ralston holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto; an MArch from Princeton University; and a master’s of landscape architecture from Harvard University GSD. Sobrino Ralston has taught at Northeastern University and the University of Pennsylvania, among other institutions. 

Office Party’s work has been exhibited in group shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at La MaMa Galleria in New York City, through the New Museum’s cultural incubator, NEW INC. Volume three of the collective’s journal, Party Planner, was awarded the Fabian and Noboku Foundation for Queer and Mixed Heritage Grant in 2023.

Learn more about Office Party

• Office Party: The Informal Architecture of Knowledge Exchange, KoozArch
• Emergent Emergency Strategies: 11 Takes On Collective Abundance, Deem Journal
• A Chance at Intimacy, New York Review of Architecture