Domestic Mutations: New Households, New Paradigms

Lawrence Blough is Professor with Tenure at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Principal of
GRAFTWORKS Design Research. Head of the Core Design sequence in the BArch program, he is also Co‐
Director of the SoA’s Housing Futures Research Lab. Currently, he teaches advanced design studios and
seminars concentrated on contemporary collective environments. Recipient of multiple awards for
funded design research, Blough has been supported by the Visiting Research Scholar Award at
Politecnico di Milano, PennPraxis at the Weitzman School of Design, The Institute of Design &
Construction Foundation, The Structurist Fellowship at USask, The New York State Council on the Arts
Independent Projects Award, and the Pratt Innovation Fund. His work and writing have been widely
published both in the US and abroad including in the books Matter: Material Processes in Architectural
Production; Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate; and in the forthcoming
Party Wall Common: Collective Forms of Ownership. His projects and collaborations have been exhibited
at Center for Architecture in New York, ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck, Kenderdine Gallery in Canada, Temple
University, Museum of Modern Art, Locust Projects in Miami, CAUE 92 in France and Yale University
among others. Blough received a BArch from Tulane University where he was awarded a commendation
with special distinction for outstanding thesis and a MSAAD from Columbia University.