Current
Fellows

Justin Brazier is a Haitian-American licensed architect and Taubman Fellow in Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. His research investigates architectural practice and pedagogy through an expanded definition of community resilience, working at the intersection of climate, culture, and spatial politics. His work is grounded in the conviction that architecture is a civic and cultural discipline, one that operates between material systems, social histories, and collective futures.

Nitzan Farfel is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work interrogates adaptive infrastructure, spatial politics, and the representational tools architecture uses to render systems visible. Selected as an architecture design fellow, her projects operate across deployable design, critical documentation, and visual media — mobilizing architecture to expose the material, ecological, and narrative structures that organize contested territories. Her current project, “Amber Wars,” examines illegal amber mining in Ukraine’s Polesia region as both a territorial operation and a representational void.

Stephanie Rae Lloyd is the 2026–2028 Barnett teaching fellow in architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her creative practice, Public__Matter, explores how architecture can respond to infrastructural decline, climate vulnerability, and aging buildings through experimental civic and material assemblies. Her current fellowship project, Support Structures, examines support as both a tectonic practice that sustains aging or obsolete infrastructure, as well as a civic practice that provides publicly accessible social services.