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Steven Mankouche is a registered architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at Taubman College. He teaches architectural fabrication, construction as well as graduate and undergraduate design studios. Steven was born in Athens, Greece and grew up in Milan, Italy. He received his architectural training at Cornell University (B. Arch + M. Arch) and the Architectural Association in London (RIBA Part One). His practice, Atelier Mankouche, a multi-disciplinary collaborative focuses on issues concerning focuses on issues concerning material culture and its relation to constructed space. Mankouche has lectured and taught architecture at institutions in the US and abroad, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Fachhochschule Liechtenstein. He has received numerous fellowships and awards including: Architect Magazine 2013 Progressive Architecture Award, 2010 R+D Award, two Un-Built Architecture awards from the Boston Society of Architects, 2003 Young Architects Award from the New York Architectural League, the Willard A. Oberdick Fellowship at the University of Michigan, a combined Ceramics and Architecture fellowship at the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands and Architecture in Residence fellowship at Akademie Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany His work has been displayed at national and international exhibitions including: 2009 Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Hilversum Museum, the 1st International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, Art Prize at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, the Architectural League of New York, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Scripps College in Clermont California, the University of Toronto and Cornell University. His most recent research involves revisiting 19th century materials and fabrication methods through contemporary digital practices and gaming as a design strategy for empowering under-represented communities in the design development of their built immediate environment.