Categories: Graduate 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.
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.
Sameena Sitabkhan, Licensing Advisor
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.
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.
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...
Braden Engel PhD
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.
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,…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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…
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.
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...
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...