Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and currently Professor and Head of Architecture at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

. He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the College of Environmental Design at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

and Director of the

Berkeley Center for New Media The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley. Its mission is to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media from cross-disciplinary and world, global perspectives that ...

. de Monchaux is the author of ''Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo'', a cultural, physical, and intellectual history of the Apollo A7L spacesuit; the book was winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and shortlisted for the Author's Club Art Book (Sir Banister Fletcher) Prize. In 2016, he published ''Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities'', which combines several historical essays on urbanism, computing, and complexity with 3,659 designs for micro-scaled ecological interventions in

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, and

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. This work earned praise from ''The New York Times'' for its "intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing," and was exhibited at the

Biennial of the Americas The Biennial of the Americas is an international festival of Thought, ideas, art, and culture hosted in Denver, Colorado every two years. According to its website, the Biennial strives to provide a platform for people from across the region to ex ...

, the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, and

SFMOMA The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has b ...

. In 2012, de Monchaux was named as one of the "Public Interest Design 100." He is a former fellow of the

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