Sarai Huaman is a bachelor of architecture candidate at Rice University with a double minor in sociology and environmental studies. She was born and raised in Lima, Peru; and is based in the United States. Her design, theory, and writings include the interfaces and intersections of the social realm between architecture and urbanism.

“I sit alone at my drawing board, trying to design a building. There are memories of smells and echoes between walls, textures in my fingertips; raised voices arguing their case, quiet gestures of resistance, faces lit in anticipation of possibilities. But my pencil can only draw the lines of habit. Lines, more lines, on white, until the configuration resembles other drawings of buildings I have seen. It is ready to be built, but all I see are the omissions –no history, no location, no corporeality, no contestation –between the geometries. Can there be another place to begin?”
- Katie Lloyd Thomas