Paprika! Magazine is the Yale University School of Architecture’s only fully student-operated and independently funded publication. Produced in collaboration with graphic designers from the Yale School of Art, the magazine publishes six to eight issues per semester with 1,000 print copies of each issue. Folds are distributed across Yale’s campus, to subscribers, to peer institutions, and online. Paprika!’s mission is to provide a platform for diverse emerging voices in architecture and design, especially students and recent graduates. What is missing from predominant, contemporary design discourse? Who is enacting real change? Paprika! is a material imprint of these questions, a place where ideas unfold, convictions collide, and words work to reconcile what students do with why they do it. Its essays, manifestos, drawings, dispatches, sounds, ruminations, and provocations are a call for active participation in education and the discipline, and a record of simmering ideas just before they rise to the surface

Taesha Aurora is a coordinating editor of Paprika! Magazine. She received her BArch from The Cooper Union, where she served on the board of trustees and as a Cooper Mack Thesis Fellow—researching how policy, media, and desire shape South Asia’s built environments and cultural imagination. Aurora’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper Union, Tempest Gallery, and the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial—in collaboration with Interim Studio on a Graham Foundation-supported film. She is an MArch II candidate (2026) at the Yale School of Architecture as a Frank Gehry Fellow. She has served as an editor of Retrospecta 48 and works as an educator at the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as with the exhibitions team at the Yale Peabody Museum. Her thesis research, supported by the Center for Business and Environment’s Climate Innovation Grant, develops construction site techniques prioritizing climate and labor health in South Asia.

Marisa Crandall is an MArch I candidate (2027) at the Yale School of Architecture and is a publisher for Paprika! Magazine. She received a bachelore’s of science in business management and administration from Boston University, where her studies focused on marketing, branding, and propaganda. Prior to beginning her master’s degree, Crandall worked in advertising for several companies including Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest communications groups. At Publicis Groupe, she focused on publisher partnerships and managed an average annual investment of $4.5 million, working with partners including Wirecutter, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast. At Yale, she is a teaching fellow for first-year graduate students and was one of the curators for Maintaining Impermanence: Constructing Identity in the Philippines, a research exhibition presented in the university's North Gallery.

Annie (Siwu) Ding is an MArch I candidate (2027) at the Yale School of Architecture. She received her BFA in illustration and graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design. After completing her undergraduate studies, Ding worked as a graphic designer in Boston for a year before matriculating at Yale. She currently serves the Paprika! Magazine community as an engagement strategist, responsible for event planning and merchandise production, among other managerial and design tasks.

Julia Edwards is a coordinating editor of Paprika! Magazine. She received her BArch from the University of Washington, where she was awarded the Faculty Award for Scholarship and Design. She worked as an architectural designer for Olson Kundig, The Miller Hull Partnership, and Best Practice Architecture, as well as a coordinator of the Seattle Design Festival. She is an MArch I candidate (2026) at Yale School of Architecture and recipient of the Gertraud A. Wood Traveling Fund and the Peter Eisenman Scholarship. While attending Yale, she has held student teaching positions at the undergraduate and graduate level. As a member of the winning team for the Yale Divinity School Water Feature competition, she will present the built work during the Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology. She works on the Domestic Revolutions and Feminist Cities Symposium, organized by Tatiana Bilbao, Annie Barrett, and Dolores Hayden.

Tian Hsu is a senior architecture major at Yale College and serves as the undergraduate news editor. Hsu is a double major with engineering sciences (mechanical) and is a member of Tau Beta Pi honors society. Her interests lie at the intersection of design and fabrication, and she worked this summer at Hatfield Group Engineering coordinating structural and façade details across design development and construction documents phases of various buildings. On campus, Hsu is a MacMillan Center European Studies Fellow and a recipient of the Harvey Geiger Travel Fellowship for her research on nineteenth-century suspension bridges in Europe.

Yanbo Li is a coordinating editor of Paprika! Magazine. He received his bachelor’s of arts in architecture from Yale University, where his senior thesis research, supported by the President's Public Service Fellowship, on community-led housing in New Haven was exhibited in the Morse College Gallery and later led to the development of the first mass timber affordable housing project on the East Coast. He has worked as designer for GOA Architecture and Studio Elsewhere and as design director for Beatty Development. He is currently an MArch I candidate (2026) at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has been a research fellow for the 2025 symposium “Building a Planetary Solution,” a teaching fellow at graduate and undergraduate levels, and a recipient of the King-Lui Wu Scholarship.

Angelo Marzocchi is an MArch I candidate (2027) at the Yale School of Architecture and serves as archivist for Paprika! Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s of science in architecture from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland and was awarded the Swiss-European Mobility Programme (SEMP) scholarship for a research semester at TU Delft. His professional background includes architectural practice in Paris and Basel. He gained significant experience in architectural publishing while working at Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture, where he contributed to the editorial production for the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion. In this capacity, he collaborated with international publishers to produce À table (Serpentine/Walther König, 2023).

Logan Rubasch is an MArch I candidate (2027) from Honolulu, Hawai’i, and has served as one of Paprika!’s publishers since Fall 2024. He received a bachelor’s of arts in american studies at Columbia University, where his research focused on the history of antitrust litigation in the United States and its evolving impacts on the built environment. His professional experience includes Group 70 in Honolulu, where he helped produce the firm’s Sustainability Action Plan. Prior to matriculating at Yale, he spent two years working with Aupuni Space, a nonprofit art gallery based in Honolulu, on the Wahi Pana: Storied Places exhibition, where he assisted the curation of artists and sites before continuing as a lead for the technical design of numerous installations.

Melos Shtaloja is a second-year MArch I candidate (2027) at the Yale School of Architecture. He received his BArch at the University of Florida, College of Design, Construction and Planning. He has worked as an architectural designer at Taller de Arquitectura and Monarch Design Group. He is the Paprika! Magazine strategy team lead. Academically, he has worked as a teaching fellow for design studio and architecture history courses. Both at Yale and University of Florida, he has been engaged in student councils, acting as a bridge between the student body and the administration.

Paprika! Magazine is a window into emerging discourse from Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. Every issue is student-curated and aims to broadcast diverse voices in the fields of art, architecture and design. Founded in 2014, Paprika! is named after the vibrant orange carpet in Rudolph Hall. Every issue of Paprika! is a newspaper broadsheet uniquely designed by students from Yale’s Graphic Design program. No two issues are alike.