CityLAB

Dana Cuff

cityLAB director • UCLA faculty • PhD Arch (UC Berkeley)
BA Psychology and Design (UC Santa Cruz)

Dana Cuff is a professor, author, and practitioner in architecture. Her work focuses on affordable housing, modernism, suburban studies, the politics of place, and the spatial implications of new computer technologies. Cuff's research on postwar urbanism was published in a book titled The Provisional City (MIT 2000), and she recently edited Fast Forward Urbanism with Roger Sherman (Princeton Architectural Press 2011). She founded cityLAB in 2006, and has since concentrated her efforts around issues of the emerging metropolis. Dr. Cuff is widely published, the recipient of numerous fellowships, and lectures internationally.

dcuff@aud.ucla.edu

Roger Sherman

cityLAB co-director • UCLA faculty • Licensed Architect
MArch (Harvard GSD) • BA Design of the Environment (U Penn)
BA Psychology and Design (UC Santa Cruz)

Roger Sherman is principal of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design in Culver City, California. His work and research deals with how new modes of collective life may be produced by harnessing the self-organizing logics of cities. His book "LA Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property" (Univ of Minn.) uses game theory as a means of understanding the stakeholder dynamics of urban development, and its formal potentials. Most recently, he co-edited, with Dana Cuff, "Fast Forward Urbanism:Reconnecting Architecture and City" (Princeton) Mr. Sherman also organized and edited "RE American Dream: Six Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles" (Princeton 1995). His work has earned wide recognition, including in Newsweek and CNN, and at the 2010 Venice Biennale ("Playa Rosa") and 2009 Rotterdam Biennale ("Duck-and-Cover: Thinking Out of the Big Box"); and has received numerous awards, including form the AIA (RePark, FreshKills Landfill End Use Plan, Staten Island); and Railyard Park (a repurposed railyard-cum-public space in Santa Fe, NM).

roger@rsaud.com

Harrison (Tim) Higgins

cityLAB associate director

Tim Higgins joins cityLAB as its Associate Director and Researcher in Architecture and Urban Design. He is an architect by training, via Princeton and SCIArc, and an urban designer and community planner by practice. Previous to joining cityLAB he was Associate Director of the Florida Planning and Development Lab. Higgins' own research interest–concerning the cultural aspects of neighborhood change, planning and design for environmental hazards, urban mobility and transportation, and new forms of spatial data representation– have been funded by various Federal and state agencies and foundations. Each of his research areas is particularly important to Los Angeles, to architecture's relevance in an urban context, and to cityLAB.

hhiggins@ucla.edu

Jonathan Crisman

Project Director, Urban Humanities Initiative

Jonathan Crisman works through several media and personas: he is Executive Director of 58-12 Design Lab, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which produces place-based research and media in order to creative positive social change; he is Principal of No Style, S. P., a proprietor of design goods and services whose value neutral approach finds that neat things can come from nearly anywhere; and he is part of Subjective Objective, an artistic endeavor whose aim is to give the harried contemporary subject a break. He holds an appointment in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA where he is Project Director for the Urban Humanities Initiative, and he holds degrees in geography, architecture, and urban planning from UCLA and MIT.

crisman@ucla.edu

Daniel Oprea

Senior Research Associate

Aaron Cayer