Nicholas de Monchaux

Architect

Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist. He received his B.A. in 1995, with distinction in Architecture, from Yale University, and his M.Arch. from Princeton University in 1999. He has worked as a designer in several noted architectural practices, including Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and, until 2001, Diller + Scofidio in New York. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo Spacesuit, and study of its implications for contemporary design practice.

From 2001-2006 he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he taught graduate students in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Since 2006, he has been Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Berkeley, where he serves on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and Chairs the Academic Advisory Committee to the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive.

de Monchaux’s work has been published in AD, Log, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Macdowell Colony. Since 2002 he has been active as a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, and in 2005-2006, he was the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum. He has received citations and honors from the International Union of Architects,  Pamphlet Architecture, and the Van Alen Institute, who awarded him the 2000 John Dinkeloo Memorial Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

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