R. Spencer Steenblik Design Director and Founder
Assistant Professor Indiana University Bloomington
Ralph Spencer Steenblik is a registered architect in New York. He has built, taught, published, exhibited, and curated globally. His work negotiates vernacular and advanced digital processes through interdisciplinary, sustainable and natural inspiration, to create urban intricacy and inspiring, interactive spaces. He has spoken at universities around the world* such as MIT, Tongji University, Yonsei University and others.
His practice, phi architecture (founded 2004), (clients include: Google, Huayi Space, Venture Anyway, BYU and the Fictionist band) focuses on designing across scales. His influence, also felt at design offices such as Asymptote Architecture, Pelli Clarke Pelli (co-founder, innovation platform called REACH). He holds a masters from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).
Steenblik acts from the philosophy that interdisciplinary collaborations infuse spaces with nuanced solutions, and is interested in creating urban complexity and intricacy on the macroscale and inspiring, interactive spaces on the micro scale. Incorporating advanced digital tools and sustainability offers new opportunities to this ongoing project.