WORK STUDIOS

"What I love most about CASP is the vibe. Not just the boisterous Blue Party, but the open workshops where anyone can roll up their sleeves to forge steel, weld, or screen print. It’s a creative playground with the best kind of community spirit."

Terah Maher and Peter Raab collaborate on projects that blur the boundaries between material research, fabrication, and spatial narrative, and are eager to use CASP’s Studio A as both a laboratory and exhibition space to share their evolving work with the Lubbock community.

Raab is an architect, fabricator, and designer whose work explores cultural sustainability through the phenomenology of place and the material resonance of architecture. His research focuses on ecologically adaptive and materially grounded design, using fabrication and field-based inquiry to challenge conventional construction processes and explore the potential of responsive, performative architecture.

He holds a Master of Architecture with a Specialization in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida. Professionally, he has contributed to international and award-winning practices including Foster & Partners in London, Burton Baldridge Architects in Austin, and Envision Design in Washington, D.C., before founding the Austin Design Collaborative (2009) and Raab Architects (2014). His built and speculative works—such as Rope House (winner, 2012 Sukkah City Austin), Ice House (2015 Warming Huts Competition), and Adobe (BaSiC Initiative, Sonoran Desert)—investigate material, climate, and craft as interconnected systems of architectural meaning.

Raab is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture, where he directs the Ecological Architecture + Design program. A recipient of numerous awards for teaching, design, and research.

His current work includes the design of the new Live-Work Studios at CASP and the Downtown Arts Gateway, a public pavilion situated along the rail spur connecting CASP and Two Docs Brewery, as well as several smaller residential projects on the Llano Estacado.

Maher is a designer, filmmaker, and educator. Her research explores the integration of haptic and time-based techniques and methodologies into the design process, and the hacking of architectural pedagogical lineages to understand contemporary representational tools, theories, and technologies. Currently, she is investigating the boundaries of visual perception within architectural projection systems through a reverse-engineering of Josef Albers’ irrational Structural Constellations image series.

Terah holds a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University and MArch from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. She taught in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies Department and at Emerson College in Boston before coming to Texas Tech, where she is an Assistant Professor at the Huckabee College of Architecture. Terah has taught and coordinated the 1st Year Design Studios for a decade.

As a filmmaker, Terah is obsessed with the inbetween – the break between each frame, the gap in which meaning is synthesized. Her experimental animation Choros (2012), for which she performed and co-directed, debuted at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, was screened at over 50 international film festivals, and broadcast on Canal+ in Europe. As a designer, Terah delights in crafting spatial narratives through the curation and design of exhibitions, including Intimacy in a Vast Landscape: The Buddy Holly Hall of Arts and Sciences, CASP Gallery, Lubbock, Texas (2018), and Frame by Frame: Animation at Harvard, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2010).