Ian
Biography
Ian is the Design Director of Type Five and a Lecturer in Architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.
Previously, he was a Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the GSD and Harvard College Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Ian has previously practiced with Barkow Leibinger, Certain Measures, Höweler + Yoon, Lundberg Design, Jensen Architects, and Shubin Donaldson.
Ian has also taught architecture, urbanism, and representation courses at the Rhode Island School of Design as well as Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design. Ian was a 2020-2021 Irving Innovation Fellow at the GSD. He has been an invited critic at MIT, SCI-Arc, Kent State University, the University of Michigan, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Tufts University.
Ian studied architecture at the GSD where he received a M. Arch I AP with Distinction, the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize, and the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design where he was awarded the Departmental Citation.