Ryan Scavnicky is the founder of Extra Office, a design studio investigating architecture culture through memes and media production to seek new agencies for critical practice. This has led to a recent interest in the overlaps between architecture theory and the cultural spaces of video games — the discussions of which can be found on TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube. Ryan teaches architecture studio and media theory at Kent State University. His work is published in Architect’s Newspaper, PLAT, ArchDaily, SURFACE Mag, Bartlebooth, Kotaku, UCLA Pool, and Hyperallergic. In addition, he spent 6 years in practice with international offices including GBBN architects in Beijing, Coop-Himmelblau in Vienna, and studioTECHNE in Cleveland. He studied at L’Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris and DAAP in Cincinnati for his Masters of Architecture, and received his Masters in Design Theory and Pedagogy with distinction from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Recently, Ryan served as the Visiting Teaching Fellow at the School of Architecture founded by Frank Lloyd Wright as the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. He has previously held appointments at the University of Cincinnati and SCI-Arc. Ryan lives in Akron with his partner Kristen Mimms Scavnicky and their two cats, Mr. Smee and Tink.