Nicholas de Monchaux
Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning
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- MIT School of Architecture and Planning
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Biography
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Nicholas de Monchaux is a Professor in and the Head of Architecture at MIT. He is a partner in the architecture practice modem, and a founder of the design technology company Local Software. Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit, winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize, as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). His design work has been exhibited widely, including at the Biennial of the Americas, the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the Santa Fe Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hellman Fund, and the Bakar Fellows Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Videos
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
Nicholas de Monchaux: "Local Code / Real Estates"
Nicholas de Monchaux | Guest Lecture
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo | Nicholas de Monchaux | Talks at Google
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