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 land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

. 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 land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and Director of the

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. 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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, New York City, New York, and Venice. 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 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice Architecture Biennale, The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA. In 2012, de Monchaux was named as one of the "Public Interest Design 100." He is a former fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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