Spring 2025 Final Review Guest Critics

Each semester, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture invites critics from around the country to join us for final reviews, as our students and faculty present the culmination of their hard work over the past several months. We are excited to welcome these accomplished professionals and fellow academics this spring.

Thank you for joining us: Monique Bassey, Julie Bauer, Craig Borum, Lindsay Burnette, Craig Dykers, Rafael Duran, Perry Kulper, William Mangold, Kyle Miller, Jose Sanchez, Kristine Stiphany, Jilly Traganou, and Emery Wright.

MONIQUE BASSEY

Monique Bassey is a visiting assistant professor with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Landscape Architecture Program. Bassey’s teaching interests and experience include design studios with a focus on environmental and social justice as well as landscape technology courses on grading, materials and methods, and construction detailing. Prior to joining University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bassey was the Marie M. Bickham Chair, Professional in Residence, with the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. As a practitioner, Bassey has ten years of experience as a landscape designer. Her experience spans a variety of project types, including neighborhood plans, university campus plans, community engagement, site design, and outreach initiatives. As an educator and designer, Bassey is passionate about bringing diverse perspectives to her students and project teams and contributing to innovative and creative design solutions. Bassey is an active member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). She currently serves on the national ASLA Executive Committee and Board of Trustees as the vice president of communications. Additionally, she is a passionate member of the Black Landscape Architects Network (BlackLAN) and serves on the emerging professionals committee.

JULIE BAUER

Julie E. Bauer is a German and British-licensed architect with over 20 years of experience designing and leading major projects, often in collaboration with complex public and private institutions. She began her career at Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin, later joining David Chipperfield Architects in London, where she rose to Associate Director. Amongst working on award-winning museums, and high-end residential and hospitality projects in the UK, Russia, and the Middle East, Bauer led the design and expansion of the Saint Louis Art Museum. She oversaw the project from master planning to construction administration, including two years of on-site supervision. After completing the Saint Louis Art Museum project in 2012, Bauer worked with renowned firms like Peter Marino and REX Architecture in New York. She then rejoined David Chipperfield Architects as their New York representative for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Modern and Contemporary wing. Bauer currently teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where she coordinates the comprehensive degree project studio, the preparatory seminar, and the international housing studio. She has also taught at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences. In addition to her academic work, Bauer continues her professional projects in Berlin and St. Louis. She holds a degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Berlin and studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

EMMANUEL VITAL BORI 

Emmanuel Bori is an architect from the Faculty of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a diploma of merit. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with national and international architecture firms, developing urban-scale projects, ranging from planning instruments to executive projects. He has also worked with the federal government, coordinating urban action plans and projects across the country. In recent years, he has been involved in the coordination of special projects at the Faculty of Architecture of UNAM, where he is also a professor and coordinator of the fourth level of projects at the Juan Antonio García Gayou workshop.

CRAIG BORUM

Craig Borum, FAIA is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is also the founding principal of PLY+ (1999). His work at PLY+ has been recognized through the Young Architects Prize and the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, as well as a Best In Practice Award from Architect's Newspaper. His work won numerous awards including a citation in the Progressive Architecture Awards, and a R&D Award both from Architect Magazine. His designs have also won an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum, and a Wood Design Award from Wood Design and Building Magazine. Additionally, he has been the principal designer on numerous projects which have won Michigan AIA Design Awards across the building and interior design categories. His designs have won prizes in numerous national and international competitions including first prize in Urban Design in the 15th Quito Biennale of Architecture. His work has also been exhibited and featured in major publications in the US and internationally. In 2018 he was elevated to the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects.

LINDSAY BURNETTE

Lindsay Burnette is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University. Her teaching, professional work, and academic research are focused on cultural landscapes, resilient design, and community-centered development. Lindsay is passionate about design in rural areas, and in 2020 she co-founded the Rural Futures Collaborative to bring together communities, designers, and their collaborators around rural issues. Her current body of research involves employing speculative design methodologies for rural, community-based projects aimed at innovative climate solutions. Prior to her career in landscape architecture, Lindsay was a Fulbright Research Scholar in South Korea and an AmeriCorps service member in Portland, Oregon. She is currently a board member of the Refugee Collective in Austin, TX and a CSU School of Global and Environmental Sustainability Resident Fellow.

AMY CAMPOS 

Amy Campos is a Professor at California College of the Arts. She focuses on durability and design, and the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. Recent publications include Public Interiority (Routledge, 2024), Interior Design On Edge (Routledge, 2024), Interior Futures (Crucible Press, 2019), Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018).

CRAIG DYKERS

Craig Dykers received a bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Texas, Austin after initial studies in medicine and art. He has worked in Texas and California and later co-founded the architecture, landscape and interior design company Snøhetta in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. As one of the founding partners of the firm, Dykers has led many of their prominent projects internationally, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City. Dyker’s work has led to numerous international awards and widespread recognition including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the World Architecture Award and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, among many others. His interest in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being is supported by ongoing observation and development of an innovative design process.

RAFAEL DURAN

Rafael B. Duran is a Spanish architect whose architectural works on theory and practice span environmental issues in the context of the contemporary planetary crisis. In 2010, with Ophelia Mantz, B. Duran co-founded Z4A to land the material practice of Z4Z4 in ecological contexts of speculative research. B. Duran taught at US, UK, and European architecture schools before being appointed Director of Undergraduate Architecture Studies at the Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. His books on architectural theory and practice include Catch (2009), Atmosphere as Form in Architecture (2016), The Materiality of Air (2023), and Bodies of Air (2025). His research work has been included in publications like Log, Materia, ARQ, and Center.

MIMI HOANG

Mimi co-founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a belief in architecture as an agent of positive change that can connect people and environments in unexpected ways. An ambition to respond to changes in contemporary life while fostering social engagement guides her work. Born in the tropics of Vietnam and trained in Amsterdam and New York City, she brings a global outlook and an obsession with greenery to the firm’s design culture. Mimi teaches graduate design studios as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and previously taught at Yale and Harvard Universities. She received her Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

PERRY KULPER

Perry Kulper is an architect and Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In a prior life he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years and held visiting teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University during that time. After graduate studies at Columbia University, he worked with Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles to practice and teach. His primary interests include: the roles and generative potential of spatial visualizations; the different spatial opportunities offered by using diverse design methods in design practices; and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to the human and non-human imaginary. While a cultural and disciplinary advocate, he doesn’t take things for granted. In 2013 he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows’ with friend and collaborator Nat Chard. They are at work on a new book to be published by UCL Press. He was the Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2018-19.

WILLIAM MANGOLD

William Mangold is an assistant professor in Interiors at Drexel University. His work explores the intersections of people and place, with a focus on human experience and social responsibility. He is an editor of The People, Place, and Space Reader, and his newest book, The Interiors Theory Primer, provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts of interiors.

KYLE MILLER

Kyle Miller is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture, Co-Founder of Possible Mediums, and Fellow (’19) of MacDowell. His design research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and Syracuse University, and has been included in the AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibition and shown at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Yale School of Architecture. In addition to co-authoring Possible Mediums, Miller’s writing has been published in Log, Monu, Constructs, Pidgin, Project, Offramp, PLAT, Room One Thousand, and the Journal for Architectural Education. Miller was Architecture Program Director at Syracuse University in Florence, previously taught at the University of Kentucky College of Design, and worked professionally in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and for Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos with UNStudio in Amsterdam. Miller is a graduate of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design, where he earned his professional degree and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and Certificate.

SALVADOR HERRERA MONTES

Salvador is the CEO at Urbanística and 2023-2024 SPURS Fellow. At Urbanística, he oversees Urbanística’s strategic plan, achieves financial goals and delivers innovative solutions in urban planning and urban design projects. Previously, Salvador was Chief Operating Officer of World Resources Institute México, where he was in charge of delivering the organization's goals. He holds a BA in Urban Planning from Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico; a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico; and a Specialization Certificate in Urban Management from Ecolen National d'Administration, France. As a 2024-2025 SPURS Fellow, Salvador aims to create a framework for urban and regional planning that recognizes indigenous governance and development concepts and recognition of ecological traditional knowledge.

JOSE SANCHEZ

Jose Sanchez is an Architect, Game Designer, and Media Artist practicing in Detroit and New York. He is the director of the Plethora Project, a research studio investing in the future of the propagation of architectural design knowledge. He is the creator of the video games Block’hood and Common’hood, digital social platforms that aid the authoring of architectural and ecological thinking to non-expert audiences. He is the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms” published by Routledge in 2020, and the co-creator of Bloom, a crowdsourced interactive installation that was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the 2012 Olympics. He has taught in the United States and in Europe, including the Architectural Association in London, The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, the University of Southern California and at the University of Michigan. His current research, “Enacted at Play,” designs and interrogates simulation and interactive media as a collaborative, embodied, and situated practice.

KRISTINE STIPHANY

Kristine Stiphany is a registered architect and Director of the Design for Resilient Environments Lab at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she is an assistant professor of architecture. She specializes in the urban design of housing, with a specific focus on informal housing systems and building types; the social mobility dynamics, morphological shifts, and typological patterns of rental markets; and the spatial distribution of urban redevelopment inequalities. Before joining SUNY, Kristine was on the faculty at

Texas Tech University and served as a National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of São Paulo’s Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo and worked at Studio Gang. She is the author of the forthcoming book Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas, and in 2024 won a Texas Society of Architects Studio Award for the Sparks Oasis Community Center in El Paso.

JILLY TRAGANOU 

Jilly Traganou is a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design, and affiliated faculty with the Doctorate in Public and Urban Policy at the Schools of Public Engagement, and the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Jilly's work examines urban and material questions related to social movements; everyday utopias; and climate-induced displacement. She is the author of Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation (Routledge, 2016), and The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan (Routledge Curzon, 2004), and co-editor with Sarah Lichtman of Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories (Routledge 2023), editor of Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities (Routledge 2020) and co-editor with Miodrag Mitrasinovic of Travel, Space, Architecture (Ashgate, 2009). She is currently working on a new project focusing on poetic spatial writing.

EMERY WRIGHT

Emery Wright, a native of Atlanta, is a long-time educator, organizer, and organizational leader dedicated to building on the continuum of the Black Radical Traditions of the U.S. South, the global diaspora, and African social movements. As Executive Director of Project South, Emery guides the organization to implement its movement building mission through local, regional and global work. Joining Project South in 2004, Emery was part of a successful leadership transition in 2008 and served as Co-Director, working on national and regional organizing projects including the U.S. Social Forum and the Southern Movement Assembly. Having founded a Black youth organization called the Nia Project in the late 1990s, Emery developed the current youth programs at Project South including co-founding the Septima Clark Community Power Institute in 2008 and the Youth Speak Truth Radio program in 2005. Committed to connecting across frontlines and playing a strong movement leadership role in multiple spaces, Emery serves as a representative on the Pan-African social movement steering committee Afrikki, and on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in addition to cultivating partnerships with Southern and Black-led organizations around the country.