Unfolding in the Longhouse [2025] Advised by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
The Stroll:La Passeggiata [2025] Advised by Toshiko Mori
Extro-Intro-Excavate
Advised by Ron Witte
Taipei, Taiwan [2024]
taipei little big studio description
mixed-use commercial, cultural, and housing
Within the city, an individual moves between outwardness and inwardness, at once alone and part of the whole. Architecture here is carved to exploit this double condition, allowing circulation to oscillate between outwardness and inwardness. An architectural and urban enfilade, circulation stitches interior to exterior, the self to the collective.
The collective is interpreted through urban precedents, such as Taipei’s outdoor markets, where individuals act as parts of a larger whole or exist independently. This oscillation becomes tangible in moments of transition, such as emerging from a crowd or viewing across expansive spaces. Architectural strategies like scale shifts, programmatic layering, and spatial carving heighten this duality, fostering interactions between city and building. Architecture here does not serve the individual over the collective, or the collective over the individual. Instead, moments of respite are carved intentionally to frame city, and to contrast points of congestion at the atrium spaces. In effect, different slivers of the city are framed throughout the experience, creating a layered urban montage that resonates with Taipei’s cultural and spatial complexity. In all, Extro-Intro-Excavate explores the duality of self and collective through spatial excavations, stitching interior to exterior, the part to the whole, the individual to the city.
Unfolding in the Longhouse
Advised by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
Cornwall, Connecticut [2025]
art gallery
the spectacular vernacular studio description
Situated within a rural Connecticut, Unfolding in the Longhouse explores the spatial logics of two vernacular typologies: the ad-hoc additions of the New England saltbox and the seriality of the longhouse. The saltbox’s form—historically shaped by pragmatic, ad-hoc expansions—offered a strategy for spatial accumulation over time, while the longhouse introduced a serial order aligned with the repetitive nature of gallery programs.
By borrowing from these types, the building expands in both plan and section as one moves through. The eastern elevation echoes the saltbox’s asymmetry, creating a parallel relationship to the natural drop in topography. Acting as a diptych, the western façade establishes a rhythmic aperture sequence, referencing the longhouse while creating a datum against the landscape. Following an open lobby, the plan bifurcates to circulation space and repetitive double-height galleries, culminating in a triple-height community event space. Formally restrained on the exterior, the project unfolds slowly in section, creating a telescopic experience where repetition makes subtle differences more perceptible. This episodic spatial rhythm mirrors the quiet, expansive quality of the landscape itself. The gallery becomes not only a vessel for art but also a device for framing movement and terrain—foregrounding process over monumentality.
telescopic view expands overtime
1 lobby
2 gallery one
3 gallery two
4 gallery three
5 event space
west elevation
1/2” = 1’ section model
plans: 0, -1, -2
1 lobby and cafe
2 service
3 art storage
4 gallery
5 gallery
6 gallery
7 storage
8 community room
9 event space
1 lobby and cafe
2 service
3 art storage
4 gallery
5 gallery
6 gallery
7 storage
8 community room
9 event space
The Stroll: La Passeggiata
Advised by Toshiko Mori
Perugia, Italy [2025]
perugia in cross roads studio description
masterplan design, landscape, and architecture
The Stroll is a landscape and architectural project situated in Parco Rimbocchi, conceived as a junction between Perugia’s microcities and as a mediator between land, culture, and collective life. Reflecting Perugia’s tradition of public walking—la passeggiata—the project treats movement through the site as a social and spatial act shaped by topography, shifting viewsheds, and moments of hide and reveal. In parallel, the project draws on this shared image of the farmhouse nestled into the terrain as a point of familiarity, bridging public understanding with architectural legibility.
Within this framework, the vernacular is imbued with something new: the language of curved retaining walls found throughout Perugia. These walls both reference the city’s infrastructure and actively negotiate the terrain, producing a contemporary reinterpretation of the farmhouse type. By working through topography, the buildings gain a double reading in elevation—appearing as a single-story form from higher ground while expanding into two stories below—allowing architecture, landscape, and movement to remain in constant dialogue as one moves through the park. Through this negotiation between the familiar and the new, The Stroll frames walking as a shared cultural experience, where architecture and landscape work together to produce moments that are both recognizably grounded and quietly surprising.
maggie_kroening@gsd.harvard.edu
@maggie.kroening
Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master of Architecture II
North Carolina State College of Design
Bachelor of Architecture, Minor in Landscape + Planning
AIA Henry Adams Medal
Faculty Award for Design Achievement
Faculty Award for Academic Achievement
Experience
WW Architecture
Sarah Whiting + Ron Witte
Cambridge, MA
Katherine Hogan Architects
Katherine Hogan + Vincent Petrarca
Raleigh, NC
Sasaki
Boston, MA
Vines Architecture
Raleigh, NC
Academic
Teaching Assistant / Preston Scott Cohen
Studio Monolithic Montage
Harvard GSD
Spring 2026
Teaching Assistant / Preston Scott Cohen
MArch II Proseminar
Harvard GSD
Fall 2025
Research Assistant / Ron Witte
Studio Taipei Little Big
Harvard GSD
Spring 2025
Architecture Instructor / Summer Immersions
NC State School of Architecture
Summer 2024
Teaching Assistant / First Year Studio
NC State School of Architecture
Spring 2023
Research Assistant / Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
NC State Landscape Architecture and Planning
2023-2024
Honors
2024 Dean’s Merit Scholarship, Harvard GSD
2024 CREW Network Scholarship, CREW Foundation
2024 AIA Henry Adams Medal, NC State SoA
2024 Faculty Award for Design Achievement in the B.Arch Program
2024 Faculty Award for Academic Achievement in the B.Arch Program
2024 Student Honor Award, AIA Southeast
2024 Student Citation Award, AIA Southeast
2024 First Place National Data Storytelling Award, Association of Public Data Users
2024 Student Design Award, AIA NC
2024 Student Design Award, AIA NC
2024 Honor Award, AIA Triangle + NC State SoA
2024 Award of Excellence in General Design, American Society of Landscape Architects NC
2023 Award of Excellence in Student Collaboration, American Society of Landscape Architects
2023 Student Honor Award, AIA Southeast
2023 Rome Summer Fellowship, NC State SoA
2023 Student Design Award, AIA NC
2023 Student Design Award, AIA NC
2023 Shawcroft Prize for Drawing, Honorary Mention, NC State SoA
2023 Faculty Award for Design Achievement in the BEDA Program
2023 Faculty Award for Academic Achievement in the BEDA Program
2022 ACSA National Timber in the City Competition, Honorable Mention
2022 Duerk Scholarship in Honor of Women in Architecture, NC State SoA
2022 Student Design Award, AIA Southeast Region
2021 Honor Award, AIA Triangle Competition + NC State SoA