Honors & Awards

2020 — Faculty Design Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones)
2019 — Innovation Award, AIA National (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones)
2019 — Best of Design Award for Research (Editor’s Choice), The Architect’s Newspaper (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones)
2019 — Honor Award, ASLA National (Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, et al.)
2019 — GSAPP Incubator Prize, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
2019 — Impact Award, Center for Impact, California College of the Arts (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones, and Alex Schofield)
2019 — Honor Award, ASLA New York Chapter (Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, et al.)
2018 — Best of Design Award for Analog Representation, The Architect’s Newspaper (Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, et al.)
2018 — Selected for City of Palo Alto Pre-Qualified Artists Pool
2018 — Urban Design Merit Award, AIA California Council (Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, et al.)
2018 — Architect Magazine R+D Award (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones)
2017 — Selected for the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge (with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones; team Public Sediment / led by SCAPE)
2017 — Selected for the Buckminster Fuller Institute Catalyst Program (Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, with Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones)
2017 — Selected for Americans for the Arts / Public Art Network Year in Review (Phase Change, with Futures North)
2017 — Selected for Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public Artist Roster
2017 — Selected for San Francisco Arts Commission Pre-Qualified Artists Pool
2017 — Selected for Alameda County Arts Commission Artist Registry
2016 — Best of Design Award for Young Architects (Honorable Mention), The Architect's Newspaper
2016 — Winner (Art/Interaction Category), SXSW Eco Place By Design Competition (Phase Change, with Futures North)
2016 — New Faculty Teaching Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture / American Institute of Architecture Students
2015 — Small Project Award, AIA National (for Centennial Chromagraph)
2014 — Artist in Residence, Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop, San Francisco
2014 — Best of Design Award for Fabrication (Honorable Mention), The Architect's Newspaper (for Centennial Chromagraph)
2013 — Honor Award, AIA Minnesota (for Centennial Chromagraph)
2013 — 30 Most Admired Educators, Design Intelligence
2011 — Cass Gilbert Fellowship, University of Minnesota College of Design, School of Architecture
2005 — Matthew W. Del Gaudio New York Society of Architects Award for Excellence in Total Design, Columbia University GSAPP
2005 — William Kinne Graduate Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University GSAPP

Exhibitions

2023 — Habits of the Anthropocene. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), University of Colorado, Denver, CO.
2023 — Materialities of Care. Exploratorium, San Francisco.
2022 — Tools for a Warming Planet. Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
2022 — Houses that Can Save the World. Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany.
2021 — Realignments: Toward Critical Computation. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), online.
2021 — Code:ART. Palo Alto, CA.
2021 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II. Hubbell Street Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2021 — How We Hear Now. Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA.
2020 — Distributed Proximities. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Online Exhibition.
2020 — The Future of _Space. A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II. Gould Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2019 — Experimental Diagramming. Between Spatial Figuration and Abstraction. Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2019 — Ubiquity and Autonomy. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), University of Texas, Austin, TX.
2019 — Drawing Attention: The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings. Roca Gallery, London, UK.
2019 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II. Korach Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
2019 — Rejected: Architectural Drawings & Their Stories. Banvard Gallery, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH.
2019 — Floating Cities. WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 — Drawing for the Design Imaginary. College of Fine Arts Great Hall and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2019 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II. Elmaleh Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
2019 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II. Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2018 — Recalibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
2018 — 1:1 / drawing, design, and communication. New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY.
2018 — Adaptation By Design. Resilient By Design Storefront / Global Climate Action Summit, San Francisco, CA.
2018 — Material Cultures / Culturas Materiales. Galería José Luis Benlliure, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
2018 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation. Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2018 — Component / Assembly: Prototyping Domestic Space. Hubbell Street Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2018 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation. Banvard Gallery, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH.
2017 — Disciplines & Disruption. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
2017 — Designing Material Innovation. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2017 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation. WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 — Digital Fabrication Symposium Exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
2017 — Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation. Hubbell Street Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2017 — Fourth Annual Juried Art Show. Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA.
2016 — Rejected: architectural drawings and their stories. Team B, Cincinnati, OH.
2016 — Posthuman Frontiers. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2016 — OBJECTS: The Secret Life of Buildings. Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX.
2016 — SXSW Eco. Austin, TX. Exhibition of Place By Design finalists. (with Futures North)
2016 — Northern Spark 2016: Climate Chaos | Climate Rising. Minneapolis, MN. (with Futures North)
2016 — In_Sight On_Site: Beyond Function. AIA San Francisco Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 — American Institute of Architects National Convention / 2015-2016 Architectural Education Awards. Philadelphia, PA.
2015 — Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
2015 — Expanding Dimensions. Tecoah Bruce Gallery / Oliver Arts Center, Oakland, CA.
2015 — American Institute of Architects National Convention. Atlanta, GA.
2015 — Market Street Prototyping Festival. San Francisco, CA.
2015 — Buoyant Ecologies: New Visions for San Francisco's Waterfront. Autodesk Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 — The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual Conference & Exhibition, Toronto, ON. 
2015 — AIA Center for Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition. The American Institute of Architects National Headquarters, Washington, DC. 
2014 — Design Agency. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
2014 — AIA Center for Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition. The American Institute of Architects National Headquarters, Washington, DC. 
2014 — Digifabulous. Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN.
2013 — A Century And Building. University of Minnesota School of Architecture, Minneapolis, MN.

Recent Lectures & Talks

2023 — University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
2022 — California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2022 — Return to Nature Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.
2022 — Architectural Intelligence Symposium, AIA Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA.
2022 — Florida International University, Miami, FL.
2022 — University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2021 — AIA Minnesota Conference on Architecture, Minneapolis, MN.
2021 — Proxy Festival, Simon Fraser University / University of Toronto McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology
2020 — Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2020 — Columbia University GSAPP, New York, NY.
2020 — University of Washington College of Built Environments, Seattle, WA.
2020 — Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis, MN.
2019 — Reynolds Symposium, University of Oregon, Portland, OR.
2019 — Regenerating Good symposium, Japan Society, New York, NY.
2019 — University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
2019 — University of California - Berkeley, Landscape Architecture Summer Institute, Berkeley, CA.
2019 — University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
2019 — WeWork Civic Center, San Francisco, CA.
2019 — University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
2019 — TECH+ Conference & Forum, San Francisco, CA.
2019 — Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2018 — Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Arquitectura, Mexico City.
2018 — University of California - Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture, Berkeley, CA.
2018 — University of California - Davis, Davis, CA.
2018 — Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2018 — Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2017 — Sustaining the Seas: Fish, Oceanic Space, and the Politics of Caring conference, Sydney, Australia.
2017 — Designing Material Innovation symposium, San Francisco, CA.
2017 — AIA San Francisco NEXT/EVOLUTION conference, San Francisco, CA.
2017 — CSI East Bay - Oakland Chapter, Oakland, CA.
2016 — Architecture And The City festival "Resilient Studios" event, San Francisco, CA.
2016 — Architectural Record Innovation Conference, San Francisco, CA.
2016 — AIA Dallas, Dallas, TX.
2015 — Texas Society of Architects Annual Convention, Dallas, TX.
2015 — AIA San Francisco / Bay Area Young Architects, San Francisco, CA.
2015 — Autodesk Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014 — SPUR, San Francisco, CA.
2014 — Dwell On Design, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2014 — Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop, San Francisco, CA.
2013 — AIA Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN.
2013 — University of Minnesota School of Architecture, Minneapolis, MN.

Selected Publications

2019 — “This artificial island is a home for sea creatures displaced by climate change” by Evan Nicole Brown. Fast Company, October 21, 2019.
2019 — “Envisioning and Designing the Floating Future” by Lindsey J. Smith. Undark, October 7, 2019. Republished in Smithsonian Magazine.
2019 — “Float Lab designed to serve as new kind of architecture for climate adaptation” by Jenna McKnight. Dezeen, September 20, 2019.
2019 — “A Floating Lab Aims to Promote a Healthy Marine Habitat in the San Francisco Bay” by Zach Mortice. Redshift, August 21, 2019.
2019 — “Architects Rethink Material and Form with New Floating Lab” by Drew Zeiba. The Architect’s Newspaper, July 12, 2019.
2019 — “Building an Architecture for Climate Change” by Louis Bury. Hyperallergic, July 9, 2019.
2018 — “2018 R+D Awards: Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab” by Clay Risen. Architect, July 2018.
2017 — "From concrete to composites, Designing Material Innovation exhibit at CCA addresses questions about our past, present, and possible futures" by Mackenzie Goldberg. Archinect, October 24, 2017.
2017 — "The Intersection of Code and Architectural Drawing" by Blaine Brownell. Architect, January 26, 2017.
2016 — "2016 Best of Design Award for Young Architects." The Architect's Newspaper, December 14, 2016.
2016 — Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture. Ed. Laura Allen, Luke Caspar Pearson, Bob Sheil and Frédéric Migayrou.
2016 — "Record Hosts First San Francisco Innovation Conference" by Fred Bernstein. Architectural Record, July 2016.
2016 — "The Power of Climate Art, Illuminated" by Katie Siegner. Yale Climate Connections, June 2016.
2016 — "Igniting Change: Northern Spark Targets Climate Chaos" by Sheila Dickinson. Walker Arts Center Magazine, June 2016.
2016 — "OK Computer: Bay Area firm Variable Projects leverages the digital to design for the human scale" by Anna Fixsen. Architectural Record, January 2016.
2015 — "Architectural Design Trends: An Architect Finds a Way to Depict Numbers as Art" by Jean Thilmany. Line/Shape//Space, July 28, 2015.
2015 — "Big Praise for Small Projects" by Deane Madsen. Architect, July 2015.
2015 — "AIA Names Winners of Small Project Awards" by Olga Romaniuk. Interior Design, June 19, 2015.
2015 — "'Meander' art piece at CHS Field gets meaning from Mississippi River" by Amy Carlson Gustafson. Pioneer Press, June 2, 2015.
2014 — "Do Architecture With Pencils." Gentlemen's Quarterly Korea, May 2014.
2014 — "Centennial Chromagraph" by Amy Goetzman. Architecture Minnesota, March/April 2014.
2014 — "8,000 pencils represent 100 years of architecture" by Madhumita Venkataramanan. Wired UK, March 2014.
2014 — "Public art: A home run for the Saints' new ballpark." Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 20, 2014.
2014 — "Best of Design Awards: Fabrication." The Architect's Newspaper, January 20, 2014.
2014 — "Curvas, Cores e Historia" by Camila Berto Tescarollo. Arquitetura e Urbanismo, January 2014. 
2013 — "Nine Minnesota firms win architecture honors" by Mary Abbe. Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 19, 2013.
2013 — "Art spotlight: 100 years for U of M architecture department." Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 24, 2013.
2013 — "100 Years of Aptitude" by Linda Mack. Architecture Minnesota, September/October 2013.