Architecture

Marcus Owens

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....

Louise Mozingo

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

Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT
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

Architect, Designer, and Sculptor
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...

Fernando Luiz Lara

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.

His latest publications include...

Nathan John

ARC Fellow, Designer, Writer and Visual artist
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...

Malo André Hutson

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...

Walter Hood

Principal of Hood Design Studio, Artist, and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley
Walter Hood was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

In Walter Hood's teaching and practice, he is committed to the development of environments which reflect their place and time specifically through how people inhabit various geographies. Our interest in the re-construction of urban landscapes seeks to build palimpsest by developing new elements, spatial forms and objects which validate their existing familiar...

Robert Glass

2011 ARC Fellow
Robert Glass was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Robert Glass is the founder of Space Open Studio, a landscape design and ecological planning firm based in Oakland, CA. He previously worked for Hyphae Design Laboratory, where he integrated landscape architecture with recycled water systems and civil engineering on a variety of sites, including public institutions, ecological preserves,...

Anisha Gade

2014 ARC Fellow
Anisha Gade was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anisha Gade is currently a PhD Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds dual masters degrees in City Planning and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. With a background in communications and international urban development, she is especially interested in contributing to critical dialogue about the built environment.