Tomás McKay is an architect and landscape architect based in Oakland, California. He has worked in projects of diverse scale and complexity, bringing together the challenges of both disciplines in a more comprehensive understanding of the design process and sustainable development. He has been successfully working in his own practice, both in his native Chile and in the United states, since 2001.
He manages his own design practice since 2001, has been teaching design studios for 25 years and since 2017 runs an exchange program between Chile and California, in environmental conservation & policies and urban planning issues, throughout private and public institutions. This mixture between practice, teaching and governance has been a driver for placing the discipline in a larger scope at the service of society, keeping the practice connected to academia in a fruitful way.
ARCH 100C–Architectural Design III (Fall 2026)
ARCH 204A–Final Thesis Seminar (Fall 2024, 2026)
ARCH 204B–Final Thesis Studio (Spring 2025, 2027)
ARCH 202–Graduate Option Studio: James R. Boyce Affordable Housing Competition Studio (Spring 2023, 2024)
LD ARCH 200A–Fundamentals of Landscape Design Studio (Fall 2018–24)
ARCH 202– Graduate Option Studio: The Architecture of Water (Spring 2019–22).
ARCH 209–Special Topics in Architectural Design Seminar: Designing for Water (Fall 2018, 2019)
ARCH 100B–Fundamentals of Architectural Design Studio (Spring 2018)
ARCH 100A–Fundamentals of Architectural Design Studio (Fall 2017).
