Editorial Board

EDITORIAL BOARD
McLain Clutter
Interim Executive Editor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
McLain Clutter
Interim Executive Editor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
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 ReviewARPA 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.
Ozayr Saloojee
Associate Editor, Design
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Ozayr Saloojee
Associate Editor, Design
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Ozayr Saloojee is an Associate Professor at Carleton University’s School of Architecture & Urbanism in Ottawa, a co-director of the Carleton Urban Research Lab and cross appointed faculty at the Institute of African Studies and the Carleton Center for the Study of Islam. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he has taught in Canada, Europe, and the US. He completed his B.Arch. and post-professional M.Arch II (Theory and Culture) at Carleton University and his doctoral studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His teaching, research, and creative practice explore politically contested terrains, landscape futures and questions of tradition and modernity in Islamic art and architecture.
Michael Faciejew
Associate Editor, Reviews
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
Michael Faciejew
Associate Editor, Reviews
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
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”.
Nora Akawi
The Cooper Union
New York, NY
Nora Akawi
The Cooper Union
New York, NY
Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and curator living in New York. She is assistant professor of architecture at The Cooper Union, and co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio [interim]. She focuses on bordering and ruination as the architectural project of settler colonialism, drawing from political geography and archive theory. Nora served on the International Jury of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), where she co-curated Friday Sermon (2018). She also curated Al Majhoola Min Al-Ard (this earth’s unknown, or, she who has been vanished from the earth) at the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans (2019) and co-curated Sarāb (2019) a festival of experimental electronic music and performance from the Arab world. She co-edited the books Friday Sermon (2018) and Architecture and Representation: The Arab City (2016). Nora serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed Journal of Architecture Education (2023-), Faktur: Documents and Architecture (2023-), and informa, the architecture journal of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan (2022-2023).
Lisa Henry Benham
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Lisa Henry Benham
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
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.
Caitlin Blanchfield
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Caitlin Blanchfield
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Caitlin Blanchfield is a historian of architecture and landscape. She is a postdoctoral fellow in architecture, urbanism, and the humanities at Princeton University. Her work examines the infrastructures of settler colonialism and material practices of resistance, addressing the role of modernist land management and design practices in projects of dispossession and colonization in North America and across the reaches of U.S. empire, as well as the anticolonial architectures that unsettle them. Blanchfield was a founding editor of the Avery Review, her coauthored book Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Dumbarton Oaks, The Graham Foundation, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. She holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from Columbia University.

Aaron Cayer
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA
Aaron Cayer
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA

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.

Elgin Cleckley
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Elgin Cleckley
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Elgin Cleckley, NOMA, is an assistant professor of architecture and design at the University of Virginia (UVa) with appointments in the Schools of Education and Nursing. He is the principal of _mpathic design, an internationally recognized, award-winning pedagogy, initiative, and professional practice, detailed in a new book with Island Press, Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces. Elgin received UVa’s Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award (the highest teaching award an assistant professor can receive), UVa’s Distinguished Public Scholar Award, and the Armstead Robinson Faculty Award. He has received three Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Awards—for Creative Achievement, Diversity Achievement, and Faculty Design (Honorable Mention). He was nominated for a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, received a US Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award, Campus Compact Virginia’s Community Engagement Award, and an AIA Virginia Award. His scholarship is recognized by a Dumbarton Oaks Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies / Harvard University and design fellowships at MacDowell, Loghaven, Anderson Center at Tower View, Good Hart, and Art Omi.
Carey Clouse
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
Carey Clouse
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
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.
Billy Fleming
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Billy Fleming
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Billy Fleming is the founding Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He is co-founder of the Climate and Community Project—a climate justice think tank dedicated to connecting movement demands to progressive legislators via applied research on the built environment—co-creator of the organization Data Refuge—an international consortium of scientists, programmers, archivists, librarians, and activists dedicated to securing critical environmental data at risk of erasure during the Trump Administration—and a co-founder of Indivisible—a progressive organizing non-profit with chapters in every Congressional District in the U.S. His recent work includes A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation (Island Press, 2021), Design With Nature Now (Lincoln, 2019), and the digital humanities projects, “Field Notes Toward an Internationalist Green New Deal” and “An Atlas for the Green New Deal.” His writing has appeared in Dissent, The Guardian, Washington Post, Places Journal, LA+, and the Journal of Architectural Education, among others.
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Ignacio G. Galán
Barnard College
New York, NY
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Ignacio G. Galán
Barnard College
New York, NY

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 JSAHJDHJAEJoA, 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. 

Cruz Garcia
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Cruz Garcia
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Cruz Garcia is a Puerto Rican designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and theorist. He is an Associate Professor at Iowa State University. Along with French designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and poet Nathalie Frankowski, Garcia is the co-founder of WAI Architecture Think Thank, a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. WAI is one of Garcia and Frankowski’s many platforms of public engagement, which also include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery and the free, alternative-education platform and trade school Loudreaders
Rania Ghosn is seen with parts of the Trash Peaks (2017) folding screen installation near Rania Ghosn's office in MIT's Building 10 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., March 14, 2022. Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy are co-founders and principals at DESIGN EARTH, a speculative architectural research practice.Ghosn is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT and Jazairy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and currently Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Trash Peaks (2017) is an installation including a folding screen, a carpet, and ceramic figures, relating to waste management practices in Seoul, South Korea, presented at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Rania Ghosn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Rania Ghosn is seen with parts of the Trash Peaks (2017) folding screen installation near Rania Ghosn's office in MIT's Building 10 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., March 14, 2022. Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy are co-founders and principals at DESIGN EARTH, a speculative architectural research practice.Ghosn is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT and Jazairy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and currently Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Trash Peaks (2017) is an installation including a folding screen, a carpet, and ceramic figures, relating to waste management practices in Seoul, South Korea, presented at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Rania Ghosn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
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 (3rd ed. 2022; 2018), Geographies of Trash (2015), and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021), and was editor of New Geographies 2: Landscapes of Energy.
Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the University of British Columbia. She studies architecture as a material and signifying practice that spatializes colonial and patriarchal forces as well as resistance mechanisms. Thematically, her research spans: historical examples of ephemeral and practised architectures, race and gender in spaces of conflict, and landscapes of Indigenous resistance. Prior to joining UBC, Tania was assistant professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, after having been the 2021-2022 Emerging Scholar Fellow at the G. Hines College of Architecture and Design, in the University of Houston. She has also taught architectural history, theory, design, and research methods at the University of Houston, Louisiana State University, and Université Laval. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from McGill University and was trained as an architect at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Priya Jain
Texas A&M Universisty
College Station, TX
Priya Jain
Texas A&M Universisty
College Station, TX
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.
Ersela Kripa
Texas Tech University – El Paso
El Paso, TX
Ersela Kripa
Texas Tech University – El Paso
El Paso, TX
Ersela Kripa is Associate Professor and Director of the Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture – El Paso and Director of Projects at POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies). Located on the U.S./Mexico border, she maps trans-border ecologies, urbanism, infrastructures, and exposes binational systems of control that affect human rights. Kripa is a registered architect and co-founder of the research and design practice AGENCY. Her work has been exhibited at the Architectural Venice Biennale, the Hong Kong Shenzhen Urbanism Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture, among other venues. She has been widely published including in Scapegoat, MONU, Volume, AD, The Architect’s Newspaper, Domus. Kripa’s book, FRONTS: Military Urbanisms and the Developing World (2020), written with Stephen Mueller, uncovers the geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies it simulates. Her awards include the Rome Prize in Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the Emerging Voices from the Architectural League of New York, among others.
Zannah Matson
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Zannah Matson
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

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.

 

Farre Nixon
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Farre Nixon
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

Farre “Faye” Nixon is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and founder of idyll minds, a collaborative, creative practice. Her research – an inquisition into ubiquitous and emerging technologies as they augment, undermine, or override the natural world – confronts the use of technology as a corrective to uncertainty in nature.


Faye holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT and dual master’s degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. She is a 2024-25 fellow of the Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Initiative and has previous professional experience with practices in New York, Philadelphia, Oslo, and Los Angeles.
Shawhin Roudbari
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Shawhin Roudbari
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
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).
Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco
Bard College
Red Hook, NY
Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco
Bard College
Red Hook, NY
Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco is an architect, historian, and educator. She is an assistant professor of architecture, and co-director of the architecture program at Bard College. Her research focuses on relations between architecture and property regimes in Mexico, with an emphasis on understanding spaces of resistance against the privatization of common lands. Her writings have appeared in Places Journal, Avery Review, New Geographies, Scapegoat, e-flux Architecture, among other publications. As an architect, she has collaborated with Arup Integrated Urbanism, Foster + Partners, Wiel Arets, and Fernando Romero. As an educator, she previously taught at the Architectural Association, University for the Creative Arts, Central Saint Martins and Iowa State University. Her work has been exhibited at Think Space in Zagreb, the Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, among other venues. Ivonne received a Ph.D. in architectural history from the Architectural Association, an M.Arch from the Berlage Institute, and a B.Arch degree from Universidad de las Américas in Puebla Mexico.
Frederick Scharmen
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
Frederick Scharmen
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
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.