Ioanna Sotiriou was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Ioanna Sotiriou studies the impact of global information systems on architectural thinking and production. Her work spans from strictly technical to purely absurd and speculative, including projects related to provoking errors in LiDAR scans, a digital cemetery for cold data, and an advanced interferometer for detecting gravitational waves in space. Her projects have been exhibited,...
Architect and Partner at the Diller Scofidio + Renfro Firm
Charles Renfro gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 27, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Charles Renfro was born in Baytown Texas in 1964. He is a practicing architect and has been based in New York City since 1989. He joined Diller + Scofidio in 1997 and was promoted to partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 2004. DS+R is an interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts while investigating issues of contemporary culture such as...
ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley
Ronald Rael was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011, 2016, and 2019 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the...
ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Washington State University
Marcus Owens was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Initially trained as an Architect, Marcus Owens received a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley. He has worked in a variety of professional contexts, including founding CAMO Studio with Christina Antiporda, focused on community engaged design/build, and with the US Forest Service....
ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley
Louise Mozingo was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Louise Mozingo is Professor of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She is a member of the Graduate Group in Urban Design of the College of Environmental Design and Director of the American Studies program of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She was named a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Undergraduate and...
Nicholas de Monchaux gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 17, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. De Monchaux is the author of...
Maya Lin gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works and her memorial designs. Her unique multi-disciplinary career has “resisted categories, boundaries and borders” (Michael Brenson). In her book Boundaries, she writes I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work...
Architect, Author, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design
Fernando Luiz Lara gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Fernando Luiz Lara works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with an emphasis on the dissemination of design ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Framed by decolonial theories, Lara has written widely about issues that pertain to the built environment of our continent.
Nathan John was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Nathan John is a designer, writer and visual artist based in Oakland, California. As Head of Architecture at Google R+D for the Built Environment, Nathan is a leader in the development of flexible systems for architecture, iterative approaches to design and construction, and innovative strategies for...
Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
Malo André Hutson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Malo André Hutson, Ph.D., MCP, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the areas of community development, climate resilience, environmental justice, and urban health. As a scholar, teacher, and practitioner, he focuses on the nexus of environmental...
