Emmett Zeifman is a Canadian architect and assistant professor of architecture at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. He is principal of NOUNS, an architecture practice with projects completed or underway in California, New York, Texas, and elsewhere. His research focuses on the history of modern architecture and its relation to contemporary urbanism, housing, and low-carbon approaches to construction. He recently guest edited Log 64: Toward a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed (2025) and curated the exhibition Towards a Newer Brutalism: Solar Pavilions, Appliance Houses and Other Topologies of Contemporary Life (2024) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His design work and criticism have been widely exhibited and published, and his editorial efforts have been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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