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Samuel is an architect, public artist, and design educator from the Deep South. His research exists at the intersection of landscape and sociocultural practices with particular interest in critical theories of urban metabolism. His work examines the urban environment’s often exploitative relationships, not only to rural spaces, but also to international hinterlands, labor sectors, and markets of commodification as they relate to the production and exportation of American material culture.
Samuel holds a Masters in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He also holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from Auburn University. He spent his final year of his undergraduate studies in west Alabama at the Rural Studio designing and building his thesis, 20K House v15: Idella’s House, an experiment in an affordable, dignified, rural housing. After becoming licensed following three years of work in Atlanta, he returned to school to continue to interrogate the capacity of design—at all scales—to create, promote, and sustain equitability.
Samuel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology and serves as the Director of FutureLab and summerFAB. He is also a part of the Adjunct Faculty in the Schools of Architecture and Design Studies, Design for Human Health, at the Boston Architectural College. Samuel is a co-founder and the principal architect at make/do. studio llc in Somerville, Massachusetts.
