Grace Hahn graduated from Virginia Tech Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Architecture. Grace’s design philosophy is rooted in the belief that architecture has the capacity to enrich communities by creating spaces that engage and evoke sensory experiences.

Grace’s thesis examines the connection between liminality and ritual through the emerging funeral practice of human composting, a process where the body transforms into soil over the course of six weeks. The thesis explores how architecture has the capacity to act as a structured, built framework for ritual practices to be performed in a sequence of spaces.

Grace joined DXA Studio in February 2025.