Grace La is Professor and Chair of the Harvard GSD Department of Architecture. Together with James Dallman, she established LA DALLMAN, exploring architect’s agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure, public space, and challenging sites. LA DALLMAN engages in catalytic projects of diverse scale-- including civic spaces, bridges, houses, historic and mid-century modern buildings. The practice has presented at the National Building Museum, the New Museum, the Danish Architectural Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Houston MFA, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and others. LA DALLMAN is the recipient of numerous professional honors from the AIA, BSA, Chicago Atheneum, the Architecture League of New York, Rice Design Alliance, and Progressive Architecture. Their monograph entitled LA DALLMAN Middle Front, is forthcoming. La has served as the founding Chair of the GSD’s Practice Platform, and Director of the MArch Programs. She is also creator and host of the Talking Practice podcast. A graduate of Harvard College, AB magna cum laude, and a John Harvard Scholar, La earned her MArch from the Harvard GSD with thesis distinction, winning the Clifford Wong Housing Prize.