People

Our team, led by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne and Eui-Sung Yi, comprises advocates and thinkers from different fields and backgrounds.

Staff

Our dedicated staff members coordinate research initiatives, manage programs, and bring design expertise to the Now Institute.

Andrew Liang

Program Coordinator

Bridget Ackeifi

Research Coordinator

Zach Pauls

Designer

James Janke

Designer

Researchers

A multidisciplinary team of researchers conducting data-driven investigations and collaborative design proposals.

Xuequi Bai

Samuel Bent

Omar Hague

Shobitha Jacob

Chenguang Li

Xi Lao

Marieh Mehrannezhad

Apurva Purandare

Andre Simapranata

Jiani Song

Tuo Sun

Wei-Chieh Tsai

Duo Wang

Jue Wang

Runzhi Wang

Shuoyang Wang

Kun Yang

Hun Tao Yu

Partnerships

Support

Funding for the NOW publication series has been provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Funding for Culture NOW was generously provided by: UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design, Happold Trust, Buro Happold Los Angeles, Herta and Paul Amir, Joyce and Aubrey Chernick, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, Hathaway Dinwiddie, F. J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc., Davis Langdon, John A. Martin & Associates, Balfour Beatty Construction, among other.

Funding for Haiti NOW was provided by: The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, UCLA Office of the Chancellor, UCLA Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design, Haiti Development Group, Morphosis.

Advisory Board

Charles Waldheim

Charles Waldheim

Harvard University GSD

John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Office for Urbanization

Albert Pope

Albert Pope

Rice University

Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture and Director of the Present/Future Program

Alan Berger

Alan Berger

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leventhal Professor and co-director of the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, director of P-REX Lab

Lars Lerup

Lars Lerup

Rice University

Dean Emeritus and Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor

Now Advisors

Hitoshi Abe

Frances Anderton

Claude Alexandre

Orhan Ayyüce

Iwan Baan

Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin

Rev. Canon Ogé Beauvoir

Alan Berger

Alex Bellande

Jacques Bilodeau

Robin Blair

Gene Block

Natalie Brunet

Nadège T. Clitandre

Matthew Coolidge

Heidi Creighton

Dana Cuff

Kenny Cupers

Guy Custis

Michael Dear

Stefano de Martino

Neli Denari

Robin Derby

David Fletcher

Tom Gilmore

Rose-May Guignard

David Herd

Con Howe

Casey Jones

Dana Hutt

Michaëlle Jean

Nathalie Jolivert

Victor Jones

John Kaliski

Richard Koshalek

Micheline Laflamme

Wilson Laleou

Sylvia Lavin

Lars Lerup

Andrew Liang

Ben Loescher

Michael LoGrande

Julia Lowell

Greg Lynn

Frederick Mangones

Claudine Michel

Greg Otto

Jan Perry

Kesner Pharrell

Albert Pope

Stephanie Reich

Nelson Rising

Ian Robertson

Annunzie Roi

Dan Rosenfeld

Hervé Sabin

Roger Sherman

Michael Speaks

Nicola Twilley

Frantz Voltaire

Charles Waldheim

Christopher Waterman

Richard Weinstein

Brandon Welling

Deborah Weintraub

Jean Wiener

Laura Zakaras

Regine Zamor

Judith Zeller