Categories: Undergraduate Faculty
Eva Chiu, Associate Director
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.
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.
Archer Firouzi, Emerging Technology Coordinator
Archer Firouzi Emerging Technology Coordinator, School of Architecture Arash Archer Firouzi is an Iranian-American architectural designer, artist, and educator with a multi-disciplinary design approach. Archer is the founder of ARCHIFFECTS as well as [ZESHT] Art and Design both based in San Francisco. In his work at the architectural scale through Archiffects, he implements his…
Zachary Meade, First Year Coordinator
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...
Elizabeth Cohn-Martin
Elizabeth Cohn-Martin Faculty, School of Architecture Elizabeth Cohn-Martin is an architect, educator, and sustainability specialist with experience in research and development of alternative materials and sustainable systems for diverse projects. She has global work experience in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico, Guatemala, and Saudi Arabia and is a registered Associate…
Doron Serban
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.
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...
Eric Lum, Director Emeritus
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.
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 his…
Kotting Luo
Kotting Luo Faculty, School of Architecture Kotting Luo is a licensed architect in San Francisco in his third decade of professional practice. His portfolio consists of built work in a wide range of scale, type, and location from supportive housing to luxury hotels, personal gyms to convention centers, and projects with clients from small municipalities…
Michael Temple
Michael Temple Faculty, School of Architecture Michael Temple, AIA, NCARB, is a San Francisco-based architect who recently joined Parco Studio as a Senior Architect. Before joining Parco Studio, he was an architect at the global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). During his time at SOM, Michael co-taught an Advanced Architectural Design studio at…
Diego Romero Evans
Diego Romero Evans Faculty, School of Architecture Faculty, School of Landscape Architecture Diego Romero-Evans is an Architect, Landscape Architect, Editor, and Curator with extensive professional experience as a design practitioner and educator. Romero-Evans was adjunct faculty in the School of Architecture at Woodbury University - San Diego (2021), a post-graduate researcher at the University…
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…
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…
Fabiana Possamai Wills
Fabiana Possamai Wills Faculty, School of Architecture Fabiana Possamai Wills is an architect and urban designer. Her interdisciplinary work combines research, design, and collaborates with local cultural organizations to explore on the renewal of inactive landscapes, sprawling urban areas, and the intersection between infrastructure and architectural design to generate strategies that promote sustainable environments…
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...
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.
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...
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.
Kris Menos
Kris Menos Faculty, School of Architecture Kris is a Co-Founder of Human Being Design, a transdisciplinary practice at the intersection between individual and environ. Their current projects include a multi-generational rammed-earth house in Santa Fe, a wood cabin in rural Vermont, a parametric system for postgenomic stelae, and a series of multi-human urns for private…
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...
Ryan Hong
Ryan Hong Faculty, School of Architecture Ryan Hong, a licensed architect in California and New York, boasts extensive experience working on diverse architectural typologies. Possessing a keen interest in creative processes and continuous learning, Ryan is especially proficient in digital fabrication. Ryan is currently a senior job captain at Marmol Radziner and an instructor…
Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis Faculty, School of Architecture Matthew Davis is a Canadian-Filipino designer, artist, and former professor at Columbia University GSAPP and Parsons School of Design. He is the director of DAD D.P.C. and also a Registered Architect in New York State in the USA. Matthew moved from Toronto to New York after completing his Bachelor of Architectural Studies at the University…
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...
Naima Sweeting
Naima Sweeting Faculty, School of Architecture Faculty, School of Landscape Architecture Naima Sweeting is a licensed Landscape Architect, with almost 20 years of combined experience in the architecture and landscape architecture professions. A native of New York City, Naima received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in architecture from Cornell University. After practicing in various architecture…
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...
Adrian Harrison
Adrian Harrison Faculty, School of Architecture Adrian is an architectural designer based in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Master of Architecture degree with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Prior to that, he graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Architectural Design and a minor in Computer Science. He has…
Hüma Sahin
Hüma Sahin Faculty, School of Architecture Hüma is an architectural designer and urban planner based in San Francisco, CA. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Department of Architecture Faculty Design Award. Before that, she received a dual degree Bachelor of Architecture…
Dan Hogman
Dan Hogman Faculty, School of Architecture Dan Hogman, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP is a licensed architect (NY and WA), artist, and educator whose career spans professional practice, academia, and leadership in the field of architecture. He has developed a diverse and impactful body of work across a range of architectural typologies, including high-rise and…
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…
Shahzia Shazi
Shahzia Shazi Faculty, School of Architecture Shahzia is a trained designer with expertise in Architecture, 3D Visualizations, Urban design and Master-Planning. As a designer, she has worked on various visualization projects for Behan Planning and Design in Saratoga Springs, New York. She managed and executed 3D design visualization projects involving architectural, urban, and interior…
Andrei Hakhovich
Andrei Hakhovich Faculty, School of Architecture Andrei Hakhovich blends creative inquiry with material intelligence, computational design, and digital fabrication based on his dual background in architecture and structural engineering. This allows him to explore narratives, spaces, and forms in a new meaningful way. He received a BS in Structural Engineering from Belarusian National Technic…
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...
Carl Wilford
Carl Wilford, PE, SE Faculty, School of Architecture Carl Wilford, PE, SE, retired as 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…
Owjan Hashtroodi
Owjan Hashtroodi Faculty, School of Architecture Owjan joined Resurget Engineering in 2021 and brings with him over 11 years of engineering experience. Prior to joining Resurget Engineering, Owjan was involved with projects related to forensic structural engineering and architecture. Owjan’s wide range of experience in both new design and forensic engineering has provided him…
Chiawang Yeh
Chiawang Yeh Faculty, School of Architecture After earning a M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2002, Chiawang's career started in the Bay Area. In his fifteen-year structural engineering career, he has been involved in numerous projects in the U.S.A, Taiwan, China and South-East Asia. Specializing in high-rise building design, he has completed several high-profile…
Kevin Riley
Kevin Riley Faculty, School of Architecture Kevin is passionate about architecture that contributes to the social, environmental, and aesthetic vitality of dense and walkable communities. With a focus on multifamily housing as an Architect at Pyatok Architects + Urban Design, he contributes to the sustainability of cities and to give back to the community…
Kellen Shipley
Kellen Shipley Faculty, School of Architecture Kellen brings to the firm a dedication to affordable and inclusive housing and excellence in design. He strives to integrate contemporary aesthetics and sustainability with vernacular building traditions within the Bay Area’s urban fabric. Kellen has spent much of his tenure at PYATOK seeking creative solutions to California’s…
Kai Alcharabi
Kai Alcharabi Faculty, School of Architecture Kai brings experience from award winning firms in Rotterdam and San Francisco, where he worked on high-end homes and commercial projects. He is skilled in all phases of design, and specializes in BIM coordination and building envelope/waterproofing systems. Kai teaches at the Academy of Art University and is…
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…
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...
Susan Sutton
Susan Sutton Faculty, School of Architecture Faculty, School of Interior 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…
Sergio Lima
Sergio Lima Faculty, School of Architecture Faculty, School of Landscape Architecture Sergio Lima studied architecture in Italy, where he became fascinated by the fluid quality of the design of outdoor spaces and the endless possibilities offered by plants in shaping the landscape around us. After a brief work experience in Madrid (Spain) with the…
Sara Khorshidifard
Sara Khorshidifard Faculty, School of Architecture A community design leader, design researcher, and educator, Sara Khorshidifard brings over 15 years of co-creative design practice and pedagogical expertise, honed through rigorous academic training. Combined with her international practice, her portfolio career reflects a uniquely collaborative outlook and practical edge towards the design process. In spring…