Andrew Holder
Alexander Maymind
Christian Stayner
Lucas Kirkpatrick
2012-2013 College Fellows Architecture Andrew Holder was appointed the Willard A. Oberdick Fellow.
He is the co-principal of the Los Angeles Design Group (LADG), where his design interests include repurposing common or outmoded drawing techniques, inventing architectural characters, and inducing states of play in an audience. Holder has held teaching appointments at UCLA, SCI-Arc, and Otis College of Art and Design, and is a frequent guest critic. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles with distinction and graduated summa cum laude from Lewis and Clark College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Alexander Maymind was appointed the Walter B. Sanders Research Fellow. Previously, he taught at Cornell University Department of Architecture in both Ithaca and New York City. Professionally, he has worked for Eisenman Architects and Richard Meier and Partners. He has collaborated with L.E.FT Architects, Dagmar Richter, and Andrew Zago. His speculative design, research, criticism, and interviews have been published in Log, Pidgin Magazine, Thresholds, Conditions Magazine, and One:Twelve. Maymind received a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University School of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. His current projects include editing and assembling a forthcoming book of collected essays from the critic Jeffrey Kipnis and a series of comparative essays on prominent architectural figures.
Christian Stayner was appointed the William Muschenheim
Fellow. Stayner is a founding partner of Stayner Architects, a Los Angeles-based design practice that provides comprehensive architectural services. His current academic research focuses on the possibilities of formalism and informality in excavation, spoils, and land use; East African urbanism and territorial organizations; and practice in the public domain. Stayner received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, with distinction in studio, and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Human Rights Theory from Harvard College and the experimental liberal arts institution, Deep Springs College.
Urban and Regional Planning Lucas Kirkpatrick was appointed to Taubman College as a Michigan Society of Fellows post-doctoral fellow. He received his doctoral degree from the University of California-Davis where he wrote his dissertation, “Liquid Resistance – Water, Power, and the Politics of Infrastructural Crisis and Contraction in New Orleans.” Kirkpatrick blends his sociological perspective with community studies and regional development and focuses his research around the politics of infrastructure. He will join other urban planning faculty in the college studying shrinking cities in the region that are grappling with the withdrawal of infrastructure — from parks to water and sewer to streets. He will also work with faculty on developing the “Detroit School” initiative.
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