Julia Spackman

Julia is a designer and educator from Los Angeles, currently in Brussels. She holds experience in every architectural stage of adaptive reuse projects, publication writing and research, exhibition illustration, and graduate level design instruction. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley's College of Environmental Design and is soon completing her Master in Architecture program at Harvard GSD. At Harvard she is a contributing editor of the student journal Pairs, an instructor for the Design Discovery program, Digital Fabrication specialist, consults undergraduates on built proposals with student group WhereverGSD, and mentors young women interested in design. In her own work, she uses architectural tools to investigate complex conditions and propose rigorous, optimistic responses.

Companies

• TA: Architectural Representation I: Origins + Originality Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2021 — 2022)
• Workshop Instructor Core Prep Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2021 — 2021)
• Studio Instructor DDY Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2021 — 2021)
• Architectural Designer Gensler (2017 — 2019)
• Architectural Designer First Office (2017 — 2017)
• Architectural Designer PATTERNS (2016 — 2016)
• Teacher’s Assistant Charles R Drew University (2012 — 2013)
• Intern Los Angeles Pediatric Society (2012 — 2012)

Education

• Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019 — 2023)
• Bachelor's Degree University of California, Berkeley (2013 — 2017)
• High School Palos Verdes High School (2009 — 2013)