dk@lowdo.net
Master in Architecture I . Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge MA . June 2009
Thesis: In/formal kiosk culture: building information networks on the street
Advisors: Marco Cenzatti and Teddy Cruz
A.B. in Engineering Sciences in Engineering Design . Harvard College
Cambridge MA . cum laude May 2002
Thesis: Kinetic architecture: a dynamic cuboctohedron space frame
Advisor: Arthur Loeb
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
Co-Founding Partner . Low Design Office
March 2006—present
Co-Founder . DSGN AGNC Nonprofit Design Think-Tank
March 2009—present
Project Designer . MOS
Cambridge MA and New Haven CT . 2006—2008
Design Intern . Alero Olympio Architect
Edinburgh, Scotland and Accra, Ghana . 2001, 2004
Design Intern . Earth Institute, Centre for Scientific Research
Auroville, India . 2003
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Architecture Instructor . Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program
Cambridge MA . Summer 2009
Developed curriculum, lectures and presentations for introductory-level architectural design studio
Research and Teaching Assistant . Harvard GSD
Cambridge MA
Michael Meredith, Spring 2008 . Option studio
Kostas Terzidis, Fall 2005 . Introduction to Digital Media
HONORS . GRANTS . FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow . TEDGlobal 2010
Oxford, England . July 2010
Recipient . Fulbright Fellowship to Ghana
"Industrial Urbanism in Tema, Ghana" . 2009
Recipient . Alpha Ro Chi Medal
Harvard GSD . 2009
Nominee . Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship
Harvard GSD . 2009
Recipient . Penny White Research Grant
for study of modern earth construction . Harvard GSD . Summer 2006
Recipient . Community Service Fellowship
for design of youth center in Lowell MA . Harvard GSD . Summer 2006
Recipient . Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship
Harvard University . 2004—2006
Recipient . Stride-Rite Public Service Fellowship
for work with Massachusetts Tenants Coalition . 2002
Recipient . Weissman Fellowship for International Experience
Harvard College . 2001
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Chair . Social Change and Activism (SoCA)
student group at Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . 2005—2009
Helped launch Design Initiative for Youth, a design program for 8th-graders, and Project Link, a summer design school at the GSD for high school students
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee . Systems For Inclusion Conference
with DesignCorps . Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . April 2008
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee . FuturePresent Symposium
Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . April 2008
Organized and led symposium on community design and minority under-representation in design disciplines
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
Dean's Diversity Initiative Committee
Harvard GSD . 2008—2009
Plagarism Committee
Harvard GSD . 2007
MArch I Class Representative
Harvard GSD . 2006—2008
Peer Advisor
Harvard GSD . 2006—2008
WORKSHOPS
Selected participant . "Picturing to Learn" workshop
Harvard Graduate School of Education . 2009
Leader . Diversity workshop
with Steve Lewis . Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture . 2008
Selected participant . Human Rights and Media workshop
Harvard Kennedy School of Government . 2006
PRESENTATIONS
Speaker . "Innovating Informal Architecture"
TEDGlobal Conference . Oxford, England . July 2010
Panelist . "Towards an African Response in Architecture"
Architectural Heritage in Ghana conference . Art in Social Structures . March 2010
Lecturer . "Between Architecture and Activism: Recent Work"
University of Ghana Legon . March 2010
Lecturer . "Design as Social Activism"
Cornell University . D+E | E+D and Design & Planning Group . September 2009
Lecturer . "From Scollay Square to Government Center: The Politics of Urban Renewal in Boston"
Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program . July 2009
Presenter . "Global Networks and Power Dynamics in a West African New Town"
Unspoken Borders: Ecologies of Inequality conference . University of Pennsylvania School of Design . April 2009
Panelist . "Rethinking Sustainability"
Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture . Royal Institute of British Architects . September 2008
Lecturer . "Post-Textile Globalism: The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts"
Harvard GSD Alumni Council . Harvard GSD . April 2007
Panelist . "Community Design Philosophy and Methodology”
Build Boston . November 2006
Presenter . "Sustainable Architecture: A Collaborative Approach to Materials-Based Design-Build"
African Materials Research Society Conference . Marrakech, Morocco . December 2005
Presenter . "Modern Earth Construction: New Development Alternatives for Africa"
Harvard Africa Network . Harvard GSD . October 2004
Lecturer . "Earth Buildings in West Africa and the World"
Kokrobitey Institute . Kokrobitey, Ghana . April 2003
Presenter . "Grassroots Microfinance in the Boston Context: The Experience of the Housing Opportunities Program's Revolving Loan Fund"
Affordable Housing Colloquium . Harvard University Cronkhite Center . April 2002
PUBLICATIONS . EXHIBITS
NOMA Magazine . Spring 2010
"A City in Search of Good Fortune: Buenaventura, Colombia"
Places Journal . Design Observer Group . 2009
"Network Power in a West African New Town" in Unspoken Borders: Ecologies of Inequality
Unspoken Borders Conference . PennDesign Black Student Association . 2009
"Biogas" with Justin Brown and Rina Salvi in Informal Toolbox: SLUM LAB Paraisopolis / Oficina de ideias: urbanizacao de favela
Secretaria Municipal de Habitaca Sao Paulo and Sustainable Living Urban Model Lab . Columbia Graduate School of Architecture . 2008
"Post-Textile Globalism: The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts" in Trays
Harvard GSD . Spring 2008