Lilly Saniel-Banrey

Designer of many things. Sowing joy and wellbeing into the details of everyday life. Currently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. See a full scope of work including architecture, graphics, objects, and documents. Or just see my current projects.

OSU Interrotta


Completed 2018
Columbus, OH

Ohio State University
Seminar led by  Emily Mohr + Jonathan Rieke 

Installation in Knowlton Hall, OSU This semester-long seminar focused on the high density drawing as a close reading of architectural drawing technique and its history within the context of maps and architectural vignettes. Precedents ranged from the early works of John Soane and Giovanni Alberti Piranesi to contemporary examples such as Jimenez Lai and Jennifer Bonner. The seminar culminated in a reconsideration of the 1978 Rome Interrotta which brought together 12 international architects to re-imagine the 1748 Nolli Map through a peculiar prompt of designs in which the space was non-existent (or no longer existent). The answers to the prompt addressed not only the question of the appropriation of designs, but also the boundaries of techniques such as projection and collage. The OSU Interrotta played with the same notions as the Rome Interrotta, tasking each student to reimagine a portion of a 1970’s campus map of The Ohio State University. The result casted a larger than life projection of the campus 100 years into the future.


16 student works printed on fabric and sewn together to form a 12’ x 12’ quilt hung from the ramps of Knowlton.

An original 1970’s campus map of Ohio State was gridded to become the series of individual student interventions


In addition to advancing an individual drawing, the seminar tasked students with creating a kit of parts exemplifying a particular drawing style. The swatches above are a reflection of this kit and are used as patterns throughout the individual Interrotta contribution as a play on the natural becoming a representation of itself.