Michael Conard has
been interested in how design can engage
global market forces for over three decades.
His architectural and urban scale practice
and research includes the development
of sustainable ecological and investment
systems, creating and enhancing public
space to direct private investment, and
evolving traditional architectural and
urban paradigms to accommodate new development
models. In addition to the
Developing
Strategies publication produced for
the Design Trust, he is the co-editor
and/or contributing co-editor of five
books on strategies and provocations
for engaging international emergent urbanism.
He continues to teach the Prefiguration
Seminar and co-teach the International
Urban Design Studio in the GSAPP at Columbia
University. His practice is as the senior
principal in the firm Design + Urbanism
Architectural, LLC.
