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Katy Barkan

Lecturer

Barkan’s Los Angeles-based practice Now Here, focuses on a range of speculative and built projects and works to transgress the categorical distinctions between building, object, text, and drawing, to imagine alternative engagements with architecture. Prior to founding her own practice she worked and collaborated with several practices including Architecture Research Office, MOS, and Preston Scott Cohen. Before coming to UCLA she was faculty at Harvard GSD from 2012-2014. Her graduate thesis “Grounds for Architecture” was selected for exhibition at the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2010. Her work and writing has been published in Pool, Clog, and Platform. Before turning her attention to architecture, Katy worked at Artforum magazine in New York.

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  • Now Here
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    Education
    M.Arch., Harvard Graduate School of Design
    B.A., Barnard College
    Exterior shot of a house with an angular roof
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    Image of an exhibition featuring red carpet and metal duct-like sculpture hanging from the ceiling
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    Interior shot of a kitchen with an angled roof
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    rendering showing two houses, one upside down beneath the other
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    Interior shot looking through the full length of the house
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    Aerial view of a model
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    Three aerial views of a model
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    Black and white rendering
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    1. Front facade of 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    2. Superposition with Gabriel Fries-Briggs in Perloff Hall Gallery. Image credit: Joshua White
    3. Inside 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    4. Rendering of 1/2 House
    5. Inside 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    6. 3 Stairs, an exploration of a constellation of stairs
    7. 3 Stairs, an exploration of a constellation of stairs
    8. 2 Walls, a new experimental middle school in Westchester, Los Angeles
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