Nicholas de Monchaux

Nicholas de Monchaux is Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media and Professor of Architecture, New Media and Urban Design at UC Berkeley. He is a partner in the Oakland, CA, based design practice modem. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press 2011), recipient of the Eugene Emme Award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize, as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton...See more

Nicholas de Monchaux is Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media and Professor of Architecture, New Media and Urban Design at UC Berkeley. He is a partner in the Oakland, CA, based design practice modem. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press 2011), recipient of the Eugene Emme Award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize, as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo has been under option for a feature film since 2012, most recently in 2016 by Working Title / Universal. De Monchaux's design work has been exhibited at the Biennial of the Americas, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, SFMOMA and the Chicago MCA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. De Monchaux is currently working on Rebel Plans: Apple, Star Wars and Architecture at Bay, a history of design, technology and power in the San Francisco Bay Area. See less