Samuel Maddox

Samuel is an architect, public artist, and design educator from the Deep South. His research exists at the intersection of landscape and sociocultural practices with particular interest in critical theories of urban metabolism. His work examines the urban environment’s often exploitative relationships, not only to rural spaces, but also to international hinterlands, labor sectors, and markets of commodification as they relate to the production and exportation of American material culture.

Samuel holds a Masters in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He also holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from Auburn University. He spent his final year of his undergraduate studies in west Alabama at the Rural Studio designing and building his thesis, 20K House v15: Idella’s House, an experiment in an affordable, dignified, rural housing. After becoming licensed following three years of work in Atlanta, he returned to school to continue to interrogate the capacity of design—at all scales—to create, promote, and sustain equitability.

Samuel currently teaches in the School of Architecture and Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and serves as the Director of FutureLab and summerFAB. He also serves on the Adjunct Faculty in the Schools of Architecture and Design Studies, Design for Human Health, at the Boston Architectural College. Samuel is a co-founder and the principle architect at make/do. studio llc in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Companies

• Co-Founder + Principal Architect make/do studio (2020)
• Director of FutureLab | Accelerate: Wentworth's Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center Wentworth Institute of Technology (2020)
• Director of summerFAB | School of Architecture and Design Wentworth Institute of Technology (2020)
• Adjunct Faculty | School of Architecture Boston Architectural College (2019)
• Adjunct Faculty | School of Architecture and Design Wentworth Institute of Technology (2019)
• Adjunct Faculty | School of Design Studies: Design for Human Health Boston Architectural College (2019)
• Research Assistant Harvard University (2019 — 2020)
• Architecture Studio Instructor Harvard GSD Design Discovery (2019 — 2019)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant | Department of Urban Planning & Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019 — 2019)

Education

• Cross-Registration, Department of Urban Studies & Planning + Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018 — 2018)
• Bachelors of Architecture (BArch) & Bachelors of Interior Architecture (BIntArch); Minor in Spanish Auburn University (2009 — 2014)
• Cross-Registration, Taşkışla Capmus Istanbul Technical University (2012 — 2012)