Nicholas de Monchaux

Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and currently Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT.[1] He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley[2] and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media.[3]

de Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,[4] a cultural, physical, and intellectual history of the Apollo A7L spacesuit; the book was winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award[5] and shortlisted for the Author's Club Art Book (Sir Banister Fletcher) Prize.[6] In 2016, he published Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities,[7] which combines several historical essays on urbanism, computing, and complexity with 3,659 designs for micro-scaled ecological interventions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Venice. This work earned praise from The New York Times for its "intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing,"[8] and was exhibited at the Biennial of the Americas,[9] the Venice Architecture Biennale,[10] The Lisbon Architecture Triennial,[11] and SFMOMA.[12]

In 2012, de Monchaux was named as one of the "Public Interest Design 100."[13] He is a former fellow of the American Academy in Rome.[14]

References

1. "Nicholas de Monchaux appointed to lead department of architecture at MIT". The Architect’s Newspaper. 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
2. "Nicholas-de Monchaux". Retrieved 2017-08-07.
3. "Berkeley Center for New Media". bcnm.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
4. De Monchaux, Nicholas (2011). Spacesuit : fashioning Apollo. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262015202. OCLC 642351481.
5. "Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Awards | American Astronautical Society". astronautical.org. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
6. "The Art Book Prize launches at the Whitechapel Gallery | Flint PR Agency UK". 2012-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
7. De Monchaux, Nicholas (2016-10-11). Local code : 3,659 proposals about data, design & the nature of cities (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9781616893804. OCLC 925410808.
8. Arieff, Allison (2010-02-10). "Space: It's Still a Frontier". Opinionator. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
9. Villarreal, Ignacio. "Denver Biennial of the Americas Announces Inaugural Exhibition". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
10. "Venice Biennale 2012: U.S. Pavilion Announces Designers and Participants". ArchDaily. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
11. "The World in Our Eyes | The Form of Form". The Form of Form. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
12. "SFMOMA LOOKS AT BUCKMINSTER FULLER'S LEGACY IN THE BAY AREA". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
13. "Infographic: 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design". GOOD Magazine. 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
14. "Features | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2017-08-07.