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founder of Xefirotarch Architecture, an award-winning
design office in architecture, product, and digital motion
based in Los Angeles.
Deborah Gans
AssociAte Professor
B.A., Harvard University; M. Arch., Princeton University;
design work has been published and exhibited at IFA
Paris, RIBA London, the Guggenheim Museum, and the
Venice Biennial; currently engaged in a community-
based project in New Orleans funded initially by HUD
and in a master plan for The Graham School, Hastings-
on-Hudson, New York; publications include The Le
Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition; The Organic
Approach; and, most recently, Extreme Sites: Greening
the Brownfield.
James Garrison
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B. Arch., Syracuse University; principal, Garrison
Architects.
Erik Ghenoiu
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A. Geography (cultural), Clark University, M.A. History
of Art and Architecture, Harvard University;
M.S. Geography (urban), University of Wisconsin
Madison; Ph.D. Architecture, Landscape Architecture,
and Urban Planning, Harvard University; works on
architecture, design, and urban planning of the 19th
and 20th centuries, with particular focus on Germany
and the United States; has taught at Pratt, Parsons,
and the University of Wisconsin–Madison; has served
as a fellow of several research institutes on both sides
of the Atlantic and is currently involved in founding a
new institute in Berlin; currently a co-editor and faculty
coordinator for GAUD’s Tarp publication.
Jose Gonzales
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; cofounder and principal, SOFTlab, a
design studio.
Matthew Herman
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., Syracuse University; M. Arch., University
of Pennsylvania; has been an architect with Burro
Happold, among other firms.Alicia Imperiale
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., Pratt Institute; M. Arch., Ph.D. candidate,
Princeton; M.F.A., CUNY Hunter College; work focuses on
the impact of digital technologies on art, architecture,
representation, and fabrication; publications include
Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture
(Birkhauser, 2000), “SKIN: Surface, Substance and
Design,” “Smooth Bodies,” “Fluid Alliances: Architecture,
Politics and Fetish Post 9/11,” and “Seminal Space:
Getting under the Digital Skin,” in RE: SKIN, (MIT Press,
2006); co-curator of the exhibit “Clip, Stamp, Fold: The
Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X-197X.”Catherine Ingraham
Adjunct Professor
B.A., St. John’s College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
University; chair of Graduate Architecture, Pratt
Institute, 1999–2005; editor, Assemblage, 1991–98
and (with Marco Diani) of Restructuring Architectural
Theory; author, Architecture, Animal, Human;
Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity; and over 50
published articles on architectural theory and history;
recipient of New York State Council on the Arts grant,
Canadian Center for Architecture research fellowship,
Graham Foundation grants, NEA grant, SOM research
fellowship, Chicago, and four MacDowell Colony
residencies; winner, Museum of Women’s History design
competition; has given invited lectures, seminars,
and symposia at over 60 national and international
universities.Hina Jamelle
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Denison University; M.Arch., University of Michigan;
co-director and a principal architect at Contemporary
Architecture Practice with Ali Rahim.Mitchell Joachim
AssociAte Professor
B.P.S., SUNY, Buffalo; M. Arch., Columbia University;
M.A.U.D., Harvard University; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; a leader in ecological design
and urbanism and a co-founder of Terreform ONE
and Terrefuge; also an associate professor at NYU and
previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at University
of Toronto; previously served on faculty at Columbia,
Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons; formerly an
architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed;
recipient of fellowships at TED2010, Moshe Safdie
Assoc., and Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT;
winner of the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence
Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best
Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart
Cities; his project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at
MoMA and widely published; he was chosen by Wired
magazine for “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next
President Should Listen To”; Rolling Stone magazine
honored him in “The 100 People Who Are Changing
America”; in 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert
Report; and Popular Science magazine has featured his
work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment”
in 2010.Robert Kearns
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A.E., Penn State University; M. A. E., Penn State
University; educational background emphasized
integration of building engineering disciplines with
architectural design and sustainability; has worked
in construction in Singapore and Germany; joined
Buro Happold’s New York office in 2003 as a graduate
engineer and is currently an associate; his work with
Buro Happold has explored various areas of building
power systems, energy-efficient lighting design, and
alternative energies; experience with international
projects and architects has familiarized him with a vast
array of innovative design and construction practices.Karel Klein
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Architecture, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.Arch., Columbia
University; co-director of Ruy Klein; investigating
craft, precision, and the evolution of design expertise
in the digital age, she continues to foreground the