Justin Brazier

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.

Justin is Co-Founder and Principal of AGONY, the Architecture Group of New York, a collective based between Boston, Brooklyn, and Rhode Island whose work spans urban agriculture, affordable housing, and cultural space. In 2025, AGONY was included in MIT Architecture’s “The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology” at the 19th Venice International Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Diedo. His work has been recognized by WBUR as part of their 2025 Makers series, highlighting local artists of color foregrounding the environment, and has been featured in MIT News and DesignBoom.

Prior to joining Taubman, Brazier taught at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, including graduate and undergraduate studios and workshops on resilient urbanism, energy infrastructures, and design-build, and served as Adjunct Faculty at the School of Architecture within the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2018), where he received the Academic and Community Leadership Award. He received his Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2024), where he was an inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Fellow and recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal for service, leadership, and professional promise.