Reese Greenlee

Computer-generated model of a circular structure with dark, cylindrical columns connected by colorful lines, set on a grid, suggesting a futuristic design.
Abstract 3D illustration of geometric shapes with colorful beams converging downward.
An array of colored columns on a grid background, each featuring a variety of abstract, geometric shapes in white.
Collage of architectural designs showing various geometric structures and layouts.
Abstract geometric design features a complex pattern of intersecting pink lines and shapes against a white background, with colorful grid textures.
Illustration showing a nine-step assembly process of a structure.
A futuristic canopy structure with orange beams and circular openings, resembling a tent-like dome, set against a clear blue sky.

Textility in Architecture

Textility in Architecture examines modes of making shaped through material processes and dynamic forces. The lecture follows a body of work, from quilts to storm shelters, that engages the tuning of form and structure through the demands of construction and performance.

PROOFS is an architecture studio based in the middle, founded by principals Reese Greenlee and Nitzan Farfel in 2024. Together, they have led and collaborated on projects spanning deployable civic infrastructure, cultural landscape surveys, speculative building systems, and field-based research. This work includes Supersites, a national framework for mobile architecture responsive to shifting civic needs; the Flint Hills Event Center, a multi-use civic and agricultural facility developed through research into vernacular building systems; a Historic Preservation Fund–supported survey of cultural resources in Kansas county fairgrounds; and ongoing investigations into modular storm shelter prototypes for manufactured home communities and extractive ecologies, including research on illegal amber mining in Ukraine. Reese is trained in architecture and structural engineering and serves as Assistant Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University.