We have established this initiative through which each year we invite a renowned specialist to visit twice per year to work with 消消犯s individually. Below is a list of specialists our 消消犯s have learned from:
2025 - Jennifer Newsom, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Cornell University AAP (Architecture, Art, and Planning); Principal, Dream the Combine
2024 - DK Osseo-Asare, Associate Professor of Architecture & Engineering Design, Penn State University; Director of Penn State's Humanitarian Materials Lab; and Associate Director of AESEDA, Penn State’s Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Design with Africa
2023 - Anya Sirota, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
2022 - Gretchen Wilkins, Ph.D., Head of Architecture Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2021 - Patricia Kucker, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
2020 - G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Curator, Writer & Editor, Washington, DC
2019 - Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Director of Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
2018 - Andrés Mignucci, Andrés Mignucci Arquitectos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017 - Philip Horton, Assistant Director, Head of Architecture, The Design School, Arizona State University
2016 - Robert Church, Principal, StudioC Architecture+Planning+Design, West Lafayette, IN
2015 - Renata Hejduk, Ph.D., Herberger Institute, Arizona State University
2014 - Angela Watson, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch
2013 - Jan Wampler, Professor of Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 - Marilys Nepomechie, Architect and Associate Professor, Florida International University
2011 - Andrés Mignucci, Andrés Mignucci, Arquitectos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010 - Renee Chow, Principal, Studio Urbis and Department of Architecture, University of Berkeley
2009 - Paul Lukez, Paul Lukez Architecture, Washington University
2008 - Sheila Kennedy, Harvard University & Kennedy and Violich Architecture, Ltd.
2007 - Aaron Betsky, Director, Netherlands Architecture Institute and Director, Cincinnati Art Museum
2006 - Kevin Alter, Alter Studio, Director, Architecture Program at the University of Texas at Austin
2005 - Paul Lewis, Dir. of Graduate Studies, Princeton University, Partner LTL, Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis, New York, NY
2004 - Doug Garofalo, Architect and Former Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago
