Nicholas de Monchaux, University of California, Berkeley

Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urban designer, and theorist. As well as directing his Oakland-based design practice, he is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves on the executive committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo spacesuit, as well as related themes of midcentury media, fashion, technology, and nature. http://nicholas.demonchaux.com/