ABOUT ME

Hi there! I’m Shawn, an architect and designer living in Oakland, CA.  I’m at home here in the Wild West (I grew up in Salt Lake City and have a deep love for desert canyons), but have traveled and worked across the world.  I am ambitiously motivated to build a more healthy and resilient planet, to support open and equitable cities, to be a part of engaged and active communities, and to be warm and generous with my family and friends.

My work is unified more by a process of rigorous curiosity and a drive for refined craft than any style or aesthetic.  I collaborate well and bring a strategic mindset, a clarity around intent, and an open honesty to every team I join.  Underlying those values is my background in making and fabrication.  I design through building, and whether the product is material or digital, I like to explore the boundaries of what a design could be through an iterative process of making, then testing, then interpreting and making again.

I am a licensed architect registered in California, and also am credentialed as a LEED Green Associate.  I earned my M.Arch at California College of the Arts and my B.S.Arch at the University of Utah. I”m a Project Architect at Woods Bagot in San Francisco, focusing on work in the Aviation, Workplace, and Multi-Family Residential sectors.  I’m also a frequent collaborator at The Open Workshop on a range of urban design proposals, installation works, and research projects.

EXPERIENCE

Woods Bagot Architects
Architect & Designer
2014 - Current

Project Architect and Designer role at a global firm in San Francisco. Design, documentation, and research experience across project of scales and typologies including aviation, mixed use, workplace, and residential work.  As Project Architect, responsible for advancing project deisgn, technical documentation, and consultant coordination efforts.  Involvement in improving studio culture, leading sustainable design initiatives, and assisting the development of the firm’s design and documentation processes.

The Open Workshop
Design & Research
2014 - Current

Design, research, exhibitions, and building with a multidisciplinary office working at the intersection of architecture, environment, and politics. Collaborative studio following a rigorous and critically-driven process resulting in installations, pavilions, publications, building designs, and master-plans.

Future Cities Lab
Design & Fabrication
2012 - 2014

Design and fabrication experience in an integrated studio and maker-space involving precision craft, automated fabrication, parametric modeling, prototyping, model-making, and robotics. Managed and carried out high-stakes consulting and fabrication contracts. Prepared conceptual and shop drawings, renderings, and diagrams.

PB Design Workshop
Design & Fabrication 
2010 - 2012

Responsible as Project Lead for the successful completion of the workshop’s design/build projects, digital
consulting partnerships, and custom fabrication commissions. Personally involved in proposal preparation, scheduling, client and consultant communication, estimates, and supervision of interns.

EDUCATION

California College of the Arts
Masters of Architecture
2012 - 2014

AIA School Medal Certificate of Merit
Magna Cum Laude

University of Utah
B.S. - Architecture
2007 - 2010

President’s Honors
Magna Cum Laude

 

RECOGNITION

Global Impact Group: Studio Lead       
Woods Bagot
Sustainable Design Action Group
2018-Current

CSR Research Grant Winner
Woods Bagot
Collective Housing Research
2019

Partnering Success at SFO
International Partnering Institute
Invited Speaker at IPI Conference
2019

New Investigations in Collective Form
The Open Workshop
Solo Show at YBCA San Francisco
2018

Alumni Campus Planning Committee
California College of the Arts
Representation & Communication
2017-2020  

At Home Together
The Urban Works Agency, CCA
Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, Korea
2017

Malleable Monuments
The Open Workshop
Solo Show at StoreFrontLab SF
2016

Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects
The Open Workshop
Award & Exhibition
2016           

Middle City Passages Toronto
The Open Workshop
Competition Finalist
2015           

Urbanism From Within
The Urban Works Agency, CCA
Research & Exhibition at SPUR SF
2015

  

AIA School Medal and Certificate
California College of the Arts
Academic Merit Award
2014            

The Agent Journal
The Urban Works Agency, CCA
Assistant Editor
2014

IMPACT: Social Entrepeneurship Award
California College of the Arts
Community Service Grant
2014            

Thesis Class Representative
California College of The Arts
Student Council
2013-2014        

Dialectic Journal
University of Utah
Spomeniks of Yugoslavia, Essay & Photography
2013            

Jury Prize Award
California College of the Arts
Loose Fit, SEAcraft Studio
2013            

Editor’s Choice Award
MAKE Magazine
Serpentine: Porcelain 3D Printer
2013            

Jury Prize Honorable Mention
California College of the Arts
Loft & Leisure, Housing Studio
2012         
 
Studio Design Award 
University of Utah
Portland Culinary Institute, Final Studio
2010            

SKILLS

Design
Rhino
Grasshopper
Ladybug Environmental Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
VRay
Enscape

Documentation
Revit
Autocad
Bluebeam
Excel

Making
Woodworking
CNC Fabrication
Laser Cutting
3D Printing
Formwork & Casting
Modelmaking