Categories: All Faculty
Mark Mueckenheim, Graduate Director
Mark Mückenheim is a licensed architect in Germany and the European Union, the principal of MCKNHM Architects, and the co-author of the book “Inspiration – contemporary design methods in architecture” released by BIS Publishers in 2012.
Karen YunJin Seong, Undergraduate Director
Karen Seong is a licensed architect in California and New York, a LEED accredited professional, and NCARB certified. She developed her professional expertise while with Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York and in San Francisco.
Sameena Sitabkhan Undergraduate Assistant Director
As a licensed architect, Sameena has designed and managed a range of building typologies over the past 15 years. A competent Project Architect, she is focused on pushing the boundaries of design through engagement and problem solving.
Braden Engel PhD, History & Theory Coordinator
Braden Engel is a full-time faculty member and undergraduate history theory coordinator. He has taught internationally – at the Architectural Association, London, the University of Greenwich, London, and he was a Senior Lecturer at California College of the Arts.
Doron Serban, Emerging Technology Coordinator
Doron Serban is a full-time faculty member and the undergraduate emerging technologies coordinator. His work focuses on the transdisciplinary role of visualization in reshaping the boundaries between logical and intuitive decision processes.
Eva Chiu, Undergraduate First Year Studio Coordinator
Eva Chiu studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Masters of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design Harvard University. Upon graduation, Eva travelled with a Fulbright scholarship to Hong Kong to study its unique urban condition.
Eric Lum, Past Director
Eric Lum, AIA, Ph.D., LEED BD+C, is a licensed architect in the state of California and NCARB certified. He has worked for Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood Architects in Boston, Arthur Erickson Architects in Los Angeles, and Gensler in San Francisco, among others.
David Gill
David Gill is a licensed architect with over 20 years of practice. He received a Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction from CCA, went on to work for Kuth/Ranieri, and had his own practice in Berkeley.
Nicole Lambrou
Nicole Lambrou received a Masters of Architecture from Yale University in the spring of 2006. Since moving to San Francisco in August of 2007 and before founding her own practice, Nicole worked on public housing and schools in the Bay Area.
Maria Paz de Moura Castro
Maria Paz is a founding partner of Rizoma Arquitetura (www.rizoma.arq.br) with Thomaz Regatos. Her office has worked on award winning buildings and projects, which are widely recognized through numerous international publications...
Jennifer Asselstine, Past Undergraduate Director
Jennifer Asselstine AIA has 30 years of experience in architecture and design and runs a design business in San Anselmo. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Minnesota, where she received an award from the AIA.
Alexandra Neyman
Alexandra Neyman holds both a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She also attended University of Michigan School of Art and Design.
Gloria Jew
Gloria Jew has been teaching since graduate studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a licensed architect in the state of Texas and also EDAC certified, Evidence Base Design Research. She has taught design studios in core, design fundamentals and studios.
Francesca Oliveira
As a Senior Project Architect at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco, Francesca Oliveira is responsible for project documentation from programming through completion of construction. Understanding the client’s needs is a critical component for her work, whether...
Jesse Agosta
Jesse Agosta Faculty, School of Architecture Jesse is a licensed Professional Engineer, Associate Principal and Senior Mechanical Engineer hailing from Portland Oregon. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston University's College of Engineering. Over the past eleven years, Jesse has had an opportunity to design a variety of project types including universities, hospitals,…
Rebal Knayzeh
Having lived, studied and worked in Beirut, Aleppo, Dubai, London, Toronto and New York, the urban condition figures centrally in my explorations; my point of departure has always been the impact of the object on the field. My interests in...
Ethen Wood
Ethen Wood Faculty, School of Architecture Ethen Founded Ethen Wood Designs in 2019. He is an architectural designer with almost 20 years of professional experience. He has worked on numerous award winning projects for Kuth Ranieri, Fougeron Architecture and Aidlin Darling Design. His previous work experience includes an array of project types including residential,…
Jason Austin
Over the last several years, Jason Austin has instructed a range of architecture, landscape and urban design studios at both undergraduate and graduate levels at multiple universities. Reflecting upon his array of teaching experiences, he has instructed courses that align...
Simon McKenzie
Simon is a Canadian designer, working at the international office Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. He has spent the last two years designing a Buddhist Temple and is one of the lead organizers of SOM’s Year One Program, its Research Initiative...
Paul Adamson
Paul Adamson, FAIA, is a San Francisco-based architect, wrote and preservation advocate. As a design architect he has worked in New York with Rafael Vinoly Architects and with San Francisco firms SMWM in association with Pei Cobb Freed and Hornberger...
Le Tang
Le Tang Faculty, School of Architecture Le Tang is the founder and principal of Atelier Dimensions with projects in the US and in China. He is a registered architect and a LEED accredited professional. He holds professional licenses in California, Pennsylvania, and New York. Le has gained experience as a project architect in various…
Ricardo Solar
Ricardo Solar Faculty, School of Architecture Ricardo is a licensed architect based in San Francisco and founder of RS/A. He has almost a decade of experience in the field of Architecture and Urban Design. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas…
Inês Martins de Brito
Inês Martins de Brito Faculty, School of Architecture Inês Martins de Brito is a portuguese architect and a founding partner at Brito.Rodriguez based in Texas and in Portugal. She previously worked at Sagan Piechota Architecture in San Francisco, California and RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker Architecture Prize 2017) in Olot, Spain. She co-hosted and taught at…
Gilberto Rodriguez
Gilberto Rodriguez Faculty, School of Architecture Gilberto Rodriguez, born in Texas is a registered architect in Portugal and a founding partner at Brito.Rodriguez based in Texas and in Portugal. He previously worked at Jim Jennings Architecture in San Francisco, California and RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker Architecture Prize 2017) in Olot, Spain. He co-hosted and taught…
Zachary Meade
Originally from California, Zachary Meade first studied architecture at the University of Lund in Southern Sweden where he gained an affinity for Scandinavian design and culture. After finishing a Masters at the Newschool of Architecture & Design in...
Jonah Rosenberg
Jonah Rosenberg was educated at Brown University (A.B., Classics - Greek and Latin) and the University of Oxford (St. John's College; D.Phil., Classical Archaeology). He was a researcher on the ERC project "The Social and Cultural Construction of the...
Charles Green
CHARLES GREEN Faculty, School of Architecture Charles is the founder of Atelier Siletz Architecture and As Development, an interdisciplinary firm operating at the intersection of architecture, community and social equity. Charles is a registered Architect in California and Oregon and previously worked at Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects in San Francisco. He received…
Aurgho Jyoti
Aurgho Jyoti Faculty, School of Architecture Aurgho Jyoti is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR /Architecture Urbanism Research LLC, an international architecture practice operating out of New York and New Delhi. His work addresses the notion of time in architecture, creating interventions that provide ‘spatial specificity’ and ‘temporal continuity.’ He holds an…
Stephen Ellis
Stephen Ellis Faculty, School of Architecture Stephen is a registered architect practicing with the firm Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP in San Francisco. He began his professional experience in the Bay Area with Solomon Cordwell Buenz. There, he developed an expertise in multi-family housing, primarily with high-rise and large scale projects sized over…
Jose Mayoral Moratilla
José Mayoral Moratilla is a Spanish architect and a PhD candidate at Universidad Catolica de Chile and at Iuav University of Venice. He currently teaches at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, and he is a founding partner at PRÁCTICA.
Shruti Dixit
Shruti Dixit has a decade of professional experience in master planning and landscape architecture projects across the world. She has worked on a wide range of projects of various scales, which have included hospitality and resort design, public...
Eric Reeder
Eric Reeder is a licensed California architect whose 15-year career has focused on collaboration, sustainability, and urban speculations. For nearly a decade Eric practiced and taught in Seoul, South Korea. Eric founded ERa (Eric Reeder Architect) in 2018.
Dan Hogman
Dan Hogman Faculty, School of Architecture Dan Hogman is a licensed architect practicing with the multi-national architecture firm SmithGroup. He has expertise in high-rise residential and commercial architecture, low-rise housing, mixed-use, retail, hospitality, and interiors. He also volunteers his time to serve in leadership roles with the AIASF. Dan is a visually curious individual,…
David Schragger
David Schragger Faculty, School of Architecture David Schragger has been with the architecture firm, Studio Hillier in Princeton, NJ since 2011. His expertise includes residential and commercial building types. In addition, he also works as a freelance designer creating branding collateral. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, with minors in Studio Art…
Aja Jeanty
Aja Jeanty Through her experiences studying and living abroad, including Copenhagen, Vicenza, Bangkok and most recently Santiago, Chile, Aja has been motivated by discovering what gives identity to different cities and how the urban form shapes our everyday lives. Approaching projects with the objective of improving people’s experience of their city, she is particularly focused on…
Peter Gang
Pete Gang was a founding board member of the Redwood Empire Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council in 2001. He now serves as a member of the Chapter’s Advisory Council. In 2003, his involvement in the Chapter’s education activities led to...
Goetz Frank
Goetz Frank ably straddles the design world and technical world. He possesses a sensibility toward high-quality community projects and is attuned to both craftsmanship and construction. Notably, Goetz saw SFJAZZ, the United States’ first ground-up concert hall...
Blaise Cannon
After graduating with honors and highest distinction from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 2011, Blaise Cannon preserved the critical thinking skills and the rigorous perspective on meaning that experienced provided.
David Campbell
David Campbell is a licensed Engineer in California. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and worked as a structural designer and inspector for five years in Seattle before returning to the Bay Area where he...
Laura Brugger
After spending most of her childhood in Charlottesville, Virginia, where her parents were professors, Laura Brugger stayed to earn her B.A. at the University of Virginia, studying as an Echols Scholar and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Her interest in...
Simon Battisti
Simon Battisti is the director of Qendra Marrëdhënie (Relationship Center), a non-profit think-tank and technical consultancy working with local and national governments on neighborhood planning initiatives for young children and their caregivers. He was curator...
Katy Martin
Katy Martin is a Landscape Architect and Architectural designer with 10 years of professional experience both in private practice and in academia. She received her Masters of Architecture from Texas Tech University and a Master in Landscape Architecture...
Christopher Pizzi
Christopher Pizzi is a licensed architect in California with nearly 20 years of professional experience in architecture, urban design and master planning. Christopher’s work experience - in New York, London, and San Francisco – has included a broad range of...
Julia Grinkrug
Julia Grinkrug is an architect and urban designer with over ten years of professional experience. Being a design lead and project architect at one of the leading architectural firms in Israel, Schwartz-Besnosoff LTD, she worked on projects that...
Archibald Woo
Archibald Woo has 27 years of experience in the architectural profession, 22 of which have been focused mainly on complex and technical projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, for major healthcare providers such as Kaiser Permanente and...
Vasilena Vassilev
Vasilena Vassilev holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, she worked on sustainable transportation initiatives and urban development as part of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab and The MIT Senseable Cities Lab...
Elizabeth Tippin
Elizabeth A. Tippin, an attorney in private practice in San Francisco, has specialized in providing business and litigation services to design professionals, including architects, engineers and related design professionals, since 1984. Committed to designing and building...
Peter Strzebniok
Peter Strzebniok is originally from Germany and has been living in the United States since 1994. He has architectural degrees from Germany and the US and is a licensed architect in California as well as in Germany and the European Union. Peter has 14...
Phoebe Schenkar
Over ten years at EHDD, Phoebe Schenkar has worked on projects at a variety of scales including overseeing construction on a $100 million Ecosystems expansion to the California Science Center. She served as the project lead for the...
Joe Rivers
Joe Rivers, AIA, LEED AP bd+c is an architect and project manager at Gensler in Houston, TX. He originally started his career as a laborer on a construction site, working his way up to carpenter, and then architect. He has worked for Cisneros...
Mark Myers
Mark Myers has been designing residential and small commercial projects for 18 years. Before establishing his own practice in 2006, Mark worked and collaborated with several design-oriented architectural firms in NYC, Boston and San Francisco, with projects...
Shaum Mehra
For more than 15 years Shaum Mehra has been working with buildings, both in architectural offices and as a self-employed licensed general building contractor. During this time, Mehra has worked on almost every type of building, from commercial, residential...
Alexa Saarenoja
Alexa Saarenoja is a designer and owner of Get Bli Designs a firm located in Finland. She received her Master of Architecture from California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Saarenoja has been...
Amy Leedham
Amy Leedham believes that sustainability - environmental, social, and economical - should be a design parameter with equal importance to program, form, materiality etc. Her design sensibility is inherently connected with her technical knowledge about building science and...
Antonio Lao
Venezuela-born Antonio Lao is a licensed, established architect of the Bay area, with a Bachelor and Master Degrees in Architecture from University of California Berkeley. With over twenty years in practice, Antonio offers formidable design skills, extensive...
James Kraus
James Kraus is a Senior Project Designer, Freelance Architect, and Design Consultant. James has wide-ranging experience in all scales of architecture and design from Master Planning to refined Interior and Industrial Design. He has documented success in...
Joseph King
Joseph King, AIA, LEED AP, has been practicing architecture for over 15 years with an emphasis on urban multi-family and residential design. A registered architect in both California and Illinois, Joe returns to the Bay Area after having spent several...
Drake Hawthorne
Drake Hawthorne received his BA in Fine Arts and BS in Biological Sciences from UC Davis in 1992. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 1994, after which he completed his MFA at the Rinehart School of...
Ben Corotis
Benjamin Corotis received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1997. He went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley where he received Master’s degrees in Structural Engineering and Architecture, focusing on...
Carol Buhrmann
Carol Buhrmann has many years of experience teaching architecture, most recently at Florida Atlantic University and U.C. Berkeley. Her current research explores the connection between architecture and film and has advanced a theory of Time Diagrams, which uses...
Lise Barriere
Lise Barriere is a LEED AP BD+C and NCARB certified, licensed architect in California with over twenty years of experience. She worked on projects in France, India, and throughout Canada before moving to San Francisco in 1997. As a senior designer in...
Susan Sutton
Susan Sutton Faculty, School of Architecture Susan Sutton brings a multidisciplinary approach to her classes in ARH, IAD and LA, teaching a combination of studio classes, history, and theory. She received her BA in architecture and her M. Arch from Yale University and went on to work on health care design, restaurants, hospitality…
Ana Mayoral Moratilla
Ana Mayoral Moratilla is a Spain-based architect and researcher. She is also a PhD candidate at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) since 2018 and currently works at the Andalusian Institute for Historic Heritage (Spain). Ana studied architecture...
Carl Wilford
Carl Wilford, PE, SE Faculty, School of Architecture Carl Wilford, PE, SE was a Vice President at Thornton Tomasetti. He joined Thornton Tomasetti in 1993 and brings 25 years of structural engineering experience, with an emphasis on education and healthcare projects. Carl has extensive experience providing structural engineering for new buildings and seismic…
Peter Engel
Peter Engel Faculty, School of Architecture Peter is a LEED-accredited, licensed architect in Oakland, CA with over three decades of experience in architecture and international development. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and master’s degree from Columbia before heading to India to study indigenous architecture and low-cost housing. His research has been supported…
Ying Wang
Ying Wang Faculty, School of Architecture Ying Wang is an alumna of the Academy of Art University, Graduate School of Architecture. She brings an architectural expertise in the public sector gained at San Francisco Public Works. She has worked on projects of different typologies and scales such as the Laguna Honda Hospital, Chinatown Public…
Mini Chu
Mini Chu, post Master’s at UCLA, has been professionally practicing architectural design for 5 years. Her experiences have mostly been in aviation and transportation design. Some of her projects include the Incheon Terminal 2, San Francisco Airport pursuits...
Eoanna Harrison
Eoanna Harrison is currently an Architectural Associate for the City and County of San Francisco Bureau of Architecture (BOA) and a Licensed Architect in California. Her career at BOA has ranged from health care to recreation centers to...
Cesar Escalante
Cesar serves as Design Technology Director at GENSLER San Francisco. Prior to that, he worked for HOK as Regional Design Technology Manager for the Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices where he provided technical leadership...
Alberto Bertoli, Director Emeritus
Mr. Bertoli has vast experience in different areas of the architectural profession. His work ranges from the planning of shuttle facilities for the space program to the designing of a performing arts center. He most recently designed the InterContinental San Francisco hotel.
Stamatina Kousidi
Stamatina Kousidi is an architect, researcher and educator. She currently holds a Research Associate position at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, where she also teaches an architecture design studio for the School...
Peter Suen
Peter Suen received a Masters of Architecture from U.C. Berkeley, where he was an Eisner Prize and Henry Adams AIA Medal recipient. In his own research, Peter has been particularly interested in the role of the architect as a designer of information...
Paul Burgin
Paul Burgin is a licensed, LEED-accredited architect with over 20 years of professional experience. He currently runs Paul Burgin Architecture, based in Santa Cruz, California. His particular areas of interest are custom residential design, small-space design, sustainability, and the areas where art and architecture overlap.
Jaime Daroca
Jaime Daroca is a Spain-based architect and founding partner of the international architecture firm PRÁCTICA. He previously worked at e2a architekten in Zurich, Switzerland and at Daroca Arquitectos in Sevilla, Spain. Jaime has held several teaching positions...
José Ramón Sierra y Gómez de León
Jose Ramon Sierra is Spain-based architect licensed in Spain, the U.K. and Romania. He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction upon Graduation from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor and Master of Architecture...
Jeff McLane
Jeff McLane is a licensed landscape architect in California. For the past 17 years he has been a founding partner and president at Jeff McLane + Associates Landscape Architects in Marin. He was a founding partner of MAC Studio, a community...
Nathan Ogle
Nathan Ogle is the founder of 12CHC Design Management & Consulting, an Architectural, Real Estate, Contracts, Entitlements, and Design Consulting business serving the Bay Area since 2010. Helping shareholders advance their business growth and mission to thrive in...
Andrea Jost
Andrea Jost studied for her BA in Modern Languages in Portugal, and went on to receive an MA in Linguistics from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. After that she traveled the world, working as a journalist, writer, and researcher...
Vivek Anand
Vivek Anand had practiced architecture in the Bay Area for thirteen years. He specializes in healing and spiritual design, and is interested in the intersection between architecture, art, movement and psychology. He has a Masters degree in Architecture...
Abraham Burickson
Abraham Burickson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, an interdisciplinary performance group that makes bespoke performances for one-person audiences. Trained in architecture at Cornell University, Burickson’s work spans writing, design, performance, and...