Confluence

Igor Siddiqui

Igor Siddiqui is an architect, design scholar, and Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. His work—manifested as objects, images, texts, and events—links design experimentation to public engagement. Siddiqui's book Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969–1975) is one of the first English-language monographs on French avant-garde architect Claude Parent and the first comprehensive study of his experimental interior installations from the 1970s.

His creative work has been exhibited at venues including the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Contemporary Austin, SITE Santa Fe, and Fusebox Festival, and featured in Dwell, Interior Design, Artforum, and Texas Architect. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, California College of the Arts, and Parsons. Siddiqui is a registered architect in Texas.

Charlie Hailey

Charlie Hailey is an architect, writer, and professor. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, he is the award-winning author of seven books, including Camps: A Guide to 21st Century Space and The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature, which received the Sigurd Olson Notable Book Award and contributed to the U.S. Pavilion’s exhibit Porch: An Architecture of Generosity at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice. Hailey’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Architect’s Newspaper, Orion, Architect magazine, The Daily Beast, Guernica, Atlas Obscura, The Smithsonian, and The New Yorker, as well as numerous academic publications. He has lectured widely and has taught workshops in Cyprus, Northern Macedonia, and Türkiye. Hailey teaches design/build, studio, and theory at the University of Florida, where he was recently named the university’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year.