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Assia Crawford Ph.D., ARB
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Dr. Assia Crawford is an ARB-registered architect and author of Designer’s Guide to Lab Practice (Routledge, 2023) and Bios in Search of Zoe (ACTAR, 2025). She holds a PhD in Architecture from Newcastle University, where her thesis Living Building Practice: Design for a Post-Anthropocene Era examined methods for working with living organisms and the ethical dimensions of emerging material practices. Assia’s research centers on biological material alternatives and digital fabrication in response to ecological challenges. Positioned at the intersection of architecture, science, and critical theory, her work uses experimental and speculative design to explore resilient, adaptive responses to environmental uncertainty. In 2022, she founded Wild Futures Lab, an interdisciplinary research and teaching facility focused on bio-design.
The Wild Futures Lab investigates the architectural
integration of living systems, such as mycelium, bacterial cellulose, and algae,
through a framework that combines material science, digital fabrication, and
environmental ethics.
Assia has served as the ACADIA 2023 Site Chair, a researcher and architect with the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE), and artist in-residence at the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research. She is also a former editor of the Biotechnology Design Journal and recipient of the ACSA TAD Best Article Award (2022) and CU Denver’s Department of Architecture Research Award (2024).
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