WS CLARK THENHAUS
LEIGHA DENNIS足
Secret Landscapes & Non-Urban Objects
Pleasure Box and Clouds
Willard A. Oberdick Fellow in Architecture
William Muschenheim Fellow in Architecture
Clark Thenhaus continues to teach at Taubman. Thenhaus has previously held teaching appointments at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), University of Colorado, and Otis College of Art and Design, and has led workshops at SCI-Arc, University of Southern California, and the University of Kentucky. Thenhaus earned his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied as the recipient of the three-year Fideli Fellowship and was awarded the Dales scholarship. Thenhaus earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work has been published in 306090, Monu magazine, Kerb journal, Soiled magazine, AWM, Futures magazine, and Conditions among others, and has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Cleveland, Baton Rouge, St. Louis, Ann Arbor, and New York City.
Leigha Dennis is the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Network Architecture Lab and Co-Director of the Architecture Online Lab at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She received her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, earning the Lucile Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the William Kinne Fellowship, and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan. She has worked as an architect, designer and researcher in San Francisco and New York, and has established a number of collaborations, among them with the Buell Center for American Architecture, MOS and AUDC. Her speculative design, research and writing have been published in New Geographies, Bracket, The New City Reader, Junk Jet, Domus, The Buell Hypothesis and has been exhibited at the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, the Museum of the City of New York and the Van Alen Institute.
FARZIN LOTFI-JAM
Hairy Value: Preserving the Elvis Hip Thrust Walter B. Sanders Fellow in Architecture
Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Principal of FarzinFarzin, holds a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, having previously completed a Master of Architecture at RMIT University. He has held teaching appointments at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, SCI-Arc and RMIT University. He has 10 years of professional experience at architectural practices in Australia, Germany, and Slovenia. His work has been recognized in open competition formats and his research has been funded by the Veski organization. FarzinFarzin explores the intersection of culture, perception, and algorithm.
Blending teaching and research, these fellowships offer a unique opportunity to pursue a variety of interests and share new insights with the College.