Seth Embry

Seth Embry is a doctoral student at Yale University and a researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture. Prior to attending Yale, he worked extensively as a designer and educator in New York, most recently teaching ecological design studios and theory seminars in the School of Design at Pratt Institute. His design-theoretical research explores the cultural and spatial products of ecological crisis. His disciplinary project seeks to propose operative design methodologies for the present and for contingent futures, primarily through strategic, tactical, and logistical utilizations of architectural novelty in reinterpreting notions of human ecology that have previously been defined through (often lacking) definitions of defensibility, sustainability, resilience, and adaptation. He is interested in new disciplinary models in pedagogy and practice that foreground ecological thought. He holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Florida.

Project Summary

Urban-Scale Integration of Biomaterials and Adaptive Morphology through Computational Design

Research Area Keywords

Ecosystems, Biomaterials, Ecology, Multispecies Design, Exigence, Computational Design, Morphology, Adaptation