Michelle Laboy

Michelle Laboy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. As a designer with degrees in architecture, engineering and urban planning, she is interested in interdisciplinary approaches for an architecture that has agency in resilient urban landscapes. Her research and teaching are focused on how buildings are grounded in a place, examining how socio-ecological thinking influences architectural theory and practice to shape experience, performance, and adaptability to changing environments. She is co-PI for the research project titled Future-Use Architecture: Design for Persistent Change that received the 2017 Latrobe Prize of the AIA College of Fellows.