Hallie Black
Lecturer
Hallie Black is an independent designer and educator based in Topanga, California. Black taught at Cornell University and University of Southern California and is a lecturer at UCLA AUD. Her built work includes projects in Los Angeles and Colorado, with her next project, a two-unit single family development, breaking ground in March 2026. From 2020 to 2023, she directed Stray Dog Café, the art and research space of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne, where she conceptualized, edited, and designed Morphosis’ book M³: modeled works [archive] 1972–2022 (Rizzoli, 2023). Black served on the board of the L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. She graduated from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University in May of 2019 with a Bachelor of Architecture concentrating in visual representation and a minor in German studies. Her thesis, “Building Up in Flames”, published in the German Monitor won the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Thesis Award for design and academic excellence and nominated for the Michael Rapuano Memorial Award. Black was the managing editor of the Cornell Journal of Architecture for issues 11 and 12. Cornell and Yale University, a83 Gallery, and A+D Museum, among others, have featured her work in exhibitions and several print and online publications.
Education
| BArch, Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning |