Margaux A. Gonzalez

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PRACTICING DESIGN BY EXPLORING HOW INTENTION, EMOTION, AND SPACE SHAPE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
A designer interested in how design shapes the way we experience the world around us.

4th Year Architecture student at the University of Oklahoma, based in Dallas.

Drawn to unconventional design, strange ideas, provocative details, and the beauty of things that challenge what we consider acceptable.

Currently creating, noticing, questioning, and seeking discomfort.

Passions include traveling, film, photogrpahy & sketching

Margaux is a creative designer and emerging architect driven by a curiosity about the intimate relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Pursuing her undergraduate degree at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, she brings an internationally influenced perspective shaped by a global education, fluency in French, English, and Spanish, and her studies abroad in Rome during the Spring 2026 semester. Her practice is grounded in the belief that architecture extends beyond the physical, exploring how intention, emotion, and space shape the human experience.

Margaux approaches design by asking why. She looks deeply at how atmosphere, materiality, light, sound, and spatial relationships can influence mood, memory, comfort, and connection. She is particularly drawn to residential architecture for its deeply personal nature and its ability to foster belonging, intimacy, and the memories that become intertwined with everyday life.

Through observation and curiosity, she seeks to understand the subtle ways people experience their environments, designing spaces that invite feeling, evoke nostalgia, encourage curiosity, and ultimately make people feel at home. Her work is rooted in the belief that architecture has the power to soothe or unsettle, to shape how we feel and how we live, and that such influence deserves to be approached with intention and care.

Raised in Dallas, usually thinking about where to go next
Lived in Rome during Spring of 2026
Fluent in French, Spanish and English; conversational in Italian
Believes good design should make you feel something
Drawn to clarity, simplicity, consistency, and what challenges convention

Favorite Paintings: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Dante et Virgil, 1850, Musée d’Orsay, Paris : For the alchemy
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago : For the haunting stillness

Skills
Design & Modeling Software
Rhinoceros 8 - Revit - Enscape - D5 - Grasshopper

Adobe Suite
Illustrator - Photoshop - InDesign

Physical Design
Physical Model Making - Conceptual Diagramming - Spatial Representation

Education
The University of Oklahoma
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture 4+ Program
2023-2028

Dallas International School
French Baccalauréat - Specilizing in Philosophy, Geopolitics, Economics & French Literature
2019-2023

Margaux.a.gonzalez-1@ou.edu
@Margauxgon
(972) 754-0074