LAB LEADERSHIP
Margaret Ikeda
Associate Professor Margaret Ikeda is an AEL co-founder and founding partner at ASSEMBLY, a practice whose focus, since 1994, is exploring connections, both in innovative details, materials and assemblies, and in the integration of multiple building specialists into the design process. Margaret brings an ability to form alliances with community stakeholders that builds a collaborative network for the realization of projects.
Evan jones
Adjunct Professor Evan Jones is co-founder of AEL and founded ASSEMBLY, a Berkeley-based architecture office, with Margaret Ikeda in 1994. ASSEMBLY's projects span in scale from furniture to multistory mixed-use housing. As implied by the name, the firm focuses on connections between physical materials and the collaborative process of design. Its projects have included the design and fabrication of installations and furnishings as well as large-scale commercial work.
Alex Schofield
Assistant Professor Alex Schofield is Associate Chair of the Graduate Architecture Department at CCA. He directs Objects and Ideograms (oplusi), a design workshop, focusing on emerging technologies, material research, and implications within the built environment. Through research developed at oplusi, Alex collaborates with the scientists and investigators in the research, prototyping, development, and application (often invention) of various material and spatial investigations in service to beyond human ecologies.
Former director
Adam Marcus:
AEL Co-Founder and former Associate Professor of Architecture at CCA now Associate Professor at Tulane University. Adam Marcus directs Variable Projects, an award-winning design and research studio that operates at the intersection of architecture, computation, and fabrication. He is also a partner in Futures North, a public art collaborative dedicated to exploring the aesthetics of data.
Research Assistants
Kira Finigan (2023-)
Conrad Scheepers (2022-)
Jared Elizares (2021-)
Claire Leffler (2022-2023)
Venessa Davidenko (2022)
Nicole Kuo (2021-2022)
Maria Ramirez Perez (2020-2021)
Marina Rosolem (2020-2021)
Vishnu Balunsat (2018-2020)
Sean Cunningham (2018-2020)
Carlos Sabogal (2018-2019)
Fernanda Bernardes (2018)
Georine Pierre (2017-2018)
Taylor Metcalf (2017)
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Keith Krumwiede, Dean, CCA Architecture
ShawnJ West, Director, Graduate Affairs & Community Engagement, CCA Architecture
Anissa Nichter, Assistant Director of Academic Administration, CCA Architecture
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Shalini Agrawal, Associate Professor, Interior Design / Diversity Studies / First Year
Peter Anderson, Professor of Architecture
Neeraj Bhatia, Associate Professor of Architecture
Michael Bogan, Senior Adjunct Professor, Individualized Major
Amy Campos, Associate Professor of Interior Design, Architecture, and Visual & Critical Studies / Chair of Interior Design
Sara Dean, Assistant Professor & Chair, MFA in Design
Mark Donohue, Associate Professor of Architecture
Christopher Falliers, Associate Professor of Architecture
Lisa Findley, Professor of Architecture
Nataly Gattegno, Professor of Architecture
Julia Grinkrug, Adjunct Professor of Architecture
Hugh Hynes, Senior Adjunct Professor of Architecture
Negar Kalantar, Associate Professor of Interior Design
Janette Kim, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Chip Lord, Adjunct Professor of Architecture
Nathan Lynch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts / Chair of Ceramics & Glass
Leslie Carol Roberts, Professor of Writing
Matthew Waxman, Adjunct Professor of Architecture