Anya Sirota is the co-founder of AKOAKI, an independent practice that explores tactical urban interventions, reversible architecture, and emergent typologies. Her current research liberally appropriates techniques from scenography, landscape architecture and media installation in the production of civic environments. She has been a lecturer in the architecture program at Taubman College since 2008, teaching both undergraduate and graduate design studios as well as courses in construction technology. She received her M.Arch from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where she earned the Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence. She holds a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.