Editorial Board

McLain Clutter is an Associate Professor and Chair of the architecture program at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Clutter’s work focuses on entanglements between architecture, urbanism, media, and political economy. His design and scholarship has been featured in Grey Room, Thresholds, MONU, 306090, the Journal of Architectural Education, Plat, The Avery Review, ARPA Journal, and other publications. He has exhibited in international venues including the 7th and 8th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture in Shenzhen, the Architecture League of New York, and Materials & Applications in Los Angeles. His work has been awarded an Architect Magazine R+D Award in 2015, ACSA Faculty Design Awards in 2015, 2019, and 2020, and other honors. Clutter’s research has received support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He is the author of Imaginary Apparatus: New York City and its Mediated Representation (Park Books: 2015), and Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire (ORO Editions: 2021). Clutter is a partner of the design practice EXTENTS, with Cyrus Peñarroyo.

Michael Faciejew is a historian and theorist of the global built environment. He is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture. He researches the intersecting histories of architecture, media, technology, and colonialism since 1800. He is currently working on his first book, which examines the architectural and imperial transformations that forged a modern culture of information in Europe between 1890 and 1960. He is also developing the interdisciplinary volume After Concrete: Rethinking Material Dynamics, which looks at the entwined histories of environmental transformation and concrete construction. His work has been published in Grey Room, Thresholds, Transbordeur, and Architectural Theory Review, among other publications. His research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and other organizations. Before arriving at Dalhousie, Faciejew was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, where he coordinated the interdisciplinary Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum”.

Lisa C. Henry is an artist and an Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Utah. She holds an M.Arch. from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lisa’s research is focused on how critical gender, race, queer, and disability theory intersect with architectural education, pedagogy, design, and production. Her current work analyzes how research and analytical methods in humanities and literature can inform our understanding of architecture as a critical tool in the construction of identity. Henry is a core organizer for Dark Matter University, and has served on the board of Dialectic, the peer-reviewed journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Utah.

Aaron Cayer is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work focuses on the history and theory of architecture firms, labor, and urban political economies. His writing has been published in edited volumes and journals including the Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Urban History, Architectural Histories, Ardeth, Thresholds, and ARQ, among others. He is the recipient of international research awards, prizes, and fellowships, including most recently the 2024 Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome. His first book, Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire (UC Press, 2025), explores the rise of corporate architecture firms in the US and their impact on politics and the profession. He holds a PhD in Architecture History from UCLA and graduate and undergraduate degrees in architecture from Norwich University.

Carey Clouse is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UMass Amherst. She holds a post-professional degree (SMArchS) in Architecture and Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Arch. from the University of Oregon. Clouse is the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to India and the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her research and creative production engage the topics of DIY urbanism, food security, climate change adaptation, and the future of the commons.

Ignacio G. Galán is an assistant professor at Barnard College. His work explores how architecture participates in the articulation of societies, attending to questions of residence, belonging, and kinship. This interest manifests in design projects as well as scholarly and curatorial endeavors concerning nationalism, colonialism, migration, and disability. He is the the author of Furnishing Fascism (2025) and has published in JSAH, JDH, JAE, JoA, and Modernism/modernity among others. He is a co-editor of Radical Pedagogies (2022) and After Belonging (2016) and was the co-curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016). He has presented his work at the Center for Architecture (2022), the Venice Biennale (2014, 2021), and the Lisbon Triennale (2013). His work as a designer is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Center and has been awarded in several competitions. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome, MacDowell, and the CCA, a Graham grantee, and has received the ACSA Faculty Design Award and the Tow Award for Innovative and Outstanding Pedagogy. 

Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding partner with El Hadi Jazairy of DESIGN EARTH. Their practice employs the speculative architecture project to make public the climate crisis. Their projects have been exhibited internationally, recently at Venice Biennale and Bauhaus Museum Dessau, and are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ghosn is recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards. She is co-author of Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3^rd ed. 2022; 2018), Geographies of Trash (2015), and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021), and was editor of New Geographies 2: Landscapes of Energy.

Priya Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. An architect licensed both in India and the US, she has worked on the restoration and adaptive use of a diverse range of buildings. Her research is focused on the histories of twentieth-century South Asian architecture in a transnational context, particularly as it relates to colonization, politics, technology and climate. Priya serves on the Heritage Conservation Committee, co-chairs the Climate Change & History Group, and is on the council of the Women in Architecture Group, at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). She has also been the Field Editor (Architecture) for the Getty Conservation Institute since 2017.

Zannah Mae Matson’s research and design work focuses on the histories and contemporary reinterpretations of landscapes throughout processes of colonization, violence, and state infrastructure projects. Her current research traces the afterlives of coloniality through highway construction in Colombia’s eastern piedmont landscapes to think about transportation infrastructure, extractive economies, and visual representation in Latin American landscapes more generally.

 

Zannah is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, School of Environmental Design and an active member of the Beyond Extraction Collective, a scholar-activist-led collective that mobilizes counter-extractive knowledges.

 

Shawhin Roudbari is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studies ways designers organize to address social problems and human rights abuses by bridging sociological studies of social movements and race with architectural theory. Supported by the National Science Foundation and community impact grants, Shawhin’s research contributes to theories/practices of contentious politics and employs ethnographic and speculative design methods. He is a founding member of the DissentXDesign research collective, which has published work in leading sociological, architectural, and interdisciplinary journals. Shawhin organizes with Dark Matter University (DMU) and is co-director of the Center for Community-Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR).

Fred Scharmen teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning. His work as a designer and researcher focuses on how architects imagine new spaces for speculative future worlds and who is invited into those worlds. His first book, Space Settlements, from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, was published in 2019. His second book, Space Forces was published by Verso in 2021. Scharmen has spoken and exhibited internationally, at venues like the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the Strelka Institute, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Museum of the Future in Dubai. Recent projects, with the Working Group on Adaptive Systems, include a mile-and-a-half long scale model of the solar system in downtown Baltimore (in collaboration with nine artists), and a pillow fort for the Baltimore Museum of Art based on Gottfried Semper’s Four Elements of Architecture.