Kian Goh, RA, PhD

I am Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA in Los Angeles. My research investigates the relationships between urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the context of climate change and global urbanization. A licensed architect, I co-founded design practice SUPER-INTERESTING!, a Building Brooklyn Award winner and ONE Prize semi-finalist. I have also worked with Weiss/Manfredi in New York City, and MVRDV in Rotterdam. Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Landscape at Northeastern University, and I have taught architecture, urban planning, sustainable design, and environmental studies at MIT, University of Pennsylvania, the New School, and Washington University in St. Louis. I previously served on the board of directors of the Audre Lorde Project. I am a Point Scholar, and the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) independent projects grant. I received a PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

I blog (intermittently) at MVMTBLDG.

I tweet somewhat more often than I blog.

My professional architecture and design practice is SUPER-INTERESTING!

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Photo: Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam. Text & photos by me unless otherwise noted