future cities lab

nataly gattegno

Nataly Gattegno is currently the 2008-09 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan TCAUP, and a 2008-09 New York Prize Fellow at the Van Alen Institute in New York City.

bio: Nataly Gattegno is a founding design partner of Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that was recently awarded the prestigious Van Alen NY Prize in 2009. FCL’s work has been awarded an Unbuilt Architecture Award from the Boston AIA and has been most recently published in Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, ed. by Lally & Young. Additionally they earned Second Prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition. In 2008 an exhibition of their design work was mounted at the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago.

Ms. Gattegno has taught at the University of Virginia from 2002-08, and she was the 2008-09 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan TCAUP. She currently teaches at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Her research seminar “InfoLab”, investigates the relationship between information and design and the opportunities of a design process inextricably linked to research. Ms. Gattegno’s professional work delves into issues of context, nature, ecology and technology in urban planning and design. She has been exploring the opportunities of design in extreme environments as a vehicle of investigating the relationship between energy and form.

Ms. Gattegno received the AIA Medal and the Certificate of Merit from Princeton University and the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Thesis Prize for design research. She was also awarded the Stanley Seeger Traveling Fellowship for research on the urban condition of the city of Athens, Greece.

Ms.Gattegno is a M.Arch graduate of Princeton University and a MA graduate from Cambridge University, St. John’s College, UK.

e-mail: info at future-cities-lab.net [or] nataly.gattegno at gmail.com