2008-09 Michigan Architecture Fellows

Nataly Gattegno

Muschenheim Fellow

Nataly Gattegno is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that was recently awarded the prestigious Van Alen NY Prize. Additionally the earned second prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition. FCL's work has been awarded an Unbuilt Architecture award from the Boston AIA and has been most recently published in Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, ed. by Lally & Young.

Ms. Gattegno taught at the University of Virginia from 2002-08. Her seminar InfoLab, investigates the relationship between information and design and the opportunities of a design process inextricably linked to research. Ms. Gattegno's professional work delves into issues of context, nature, ecology and technology in urban planning and design. She has been exploring the opportunities of design in extreme environments as a vehicle of investigating the relationship between energy and form.

Ms. Gattegno received the AIA Medal and the Certificate of Merit from Princeton University and the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for design research. She was also awarded the Stanley Seeger Traveling Fellowship for research on the urban condition of the city of Athens, Greece.

Ms.Gattegno is a M.Arch graduate of Princeton University and a MA graduate from Cambridge University, St. John's College, UK.

G. Britt Eversole

Sanders Fellow

G. Britt Eversole was a Lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture in 2007-08 and a Teaching Fellow from 2001-04 and 2005-07. He holds a M.E.D. and a M.Arch From Yale and a B.Des from the University of Florida. Mr. Eversole's research focuses on the history of Italian modern architecture prior to World War II. His work explores the aesthetic and political trajectories of Italian art and architecture from the end of the 19th century to the fall of the Fascist government.

Mr. Eversole was awarded the David Taylor Prize from Yale, the Robert Rettig Fellowship from the New England Society of Architectural Historians and first prize for "Architecture/Non-Architecture" in the 2004 Beijing Architectural Biennale.

Jason Johnson

Oberdick Fellow

Jason Johnson is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab LLC, an interdisciplinary research collaborative with design studios in the USA and Athens, Greece. Most recently, Future Cities Lab has been awarded the prestigious Van Alen NY Prize. Additionally their competition entry for the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts Center was awarded a "Second Prize". The proposal intermeshed cutting-edge architectural design with technological advances in the material sciences, robotics and engineering. Conceived as a massive urban "energy-farm," fields of suspended heliotropic sky-pins generate energy and activate the island with variable conditions of light, color and sound. The proposed space frame would be the first large-scale non-military use of hyper carbon structural fibers in the world.

Mr. Johnson was a faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, leading studios and research seminars in design, urbanism and advanced technologies from 2001-08. In 2005 he became a research associate of the NSO (The Non-Linear Systems Organization) founded by Cecil Balmond and supported by the Arup Foundation and Penn Design.

Jason Johnson was born and raised in Canada. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 2001, and his Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia. While at Princeton Mr. Johnson was awarded a Butler Traveling Fellowship, a Princeton University Academic Fellowship, and the graduate Thesis Prize. He was the guest editor of 306090, a journal of emergent architecture and design, distributed by the Princeton Architectural Press. He has previously worked with Polshek Partnership and Reiser+Umemoto Architects in New York City.

About Michigan Architecture Fellowships

The 2009-2010 fellowship search has not begun.

Review of application materials typically begins November 1 and ends January 15.

Fellows spend one academic year at the University of Michigan. Appointed as lecturers in architecture, they are given teaching responsibilities and time to devote to other creative activities, scholarship, and design work. Fellows present the result of their activities to the College at the end of their tenure.

Send application materials to:

The University of Michigan
Chair, Fellowship Search Committee
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 USA
(734) 764-1300
734) 763-2322 fax

Fellowship applicants should send a letter of interest specifying the position they are applying for, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and a portfolio of professional work, research, scholarship, teaching, and/or other creative work. A new search committee will be formed in December 2006. The University of Michigan is a non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer. Ethnic, minority and women applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

Design/MUSCHENHEIM

The Design Fellowship offers design instructors early in their career the opportunity to develop a body of work in the context of, or in relation to teaching. Design fellows play a significant role in the definition of studio culture while pursuing their own creative endeavors to be presented and exhibited in the school gallery at the end of the year. Proposals for the Design Fellowship may focus either upon the development of a specific project either individually or with students outside
of teaching, or center upon a particular set of pedagogical themes to be engaged in the studio context.

Project/OBERDICK

The Project Fellowship facilitates the development and realization of a significant exploration into some aspect of architectural speculation and production. Fellows are provided with resources for the execution of a project that may take the form of an exhibit, publication, installation or any other material construction. Projects may range from the exploration of emergent building, fabrication and environmental technologies to the realization of architectural works and endeavors typically unsupported within conventional models of practice.

Research/SANDERS

The Research Fellowship supports individuals with significant, compelling and timely research agendas dealing with architectural issues. Research agendas could be based in such fields as architectural, urban, landscape or cultural history or theory; architectural or environmental technology; or design studies. These agendas could emerge from recently-completed doctoral dissertations or any other intense and rigorous research format. The fellowship will support both the continuation of research and the development of research-related curriculum.