Nicholas de Monchaux

Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] He is currently Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media.^[2] de Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,^[3] a cultural, physical, and intellectual history of the Apollo A7L spacesuit; the book was winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award^[4] and Shortlisted for the Author's Club Art Book (Sir Banister Fletcher) Prize.^[5] In 2012 he was named as one of the "Public Interest Design 100";^[6] In 2016 he published Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities,^[7] which combines several historical essays on urbanism, computing, and complexity with 3,659 designs for micro-scaled ecological interventions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Venice Italy. This work has been praised by the New York Times for its "Intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing,"^[8] and has been exhibited at the Biennial of the Americas,^[9] the Venice Architecture Biennale,^[10] The Lisbon Architecture Triennial,^[11] and SFMOMA.^[12] He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome^[13]

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