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Katy Barkan

Lecturer

Katy Barkan is a Los Angeles-based designer and Continuing Lecturer at UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, where she has been teaching since 2014. She is the principal of Now Here, an award-winning practice working at the intersection of the speculative and the everyday. Her current work includes buildings, furniture, exhibition design, and large-scale collaborations with artists.

Barkan received the Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in 2020. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennale, the UCLA and Harvard GSD galleries, and at the American Academy in Rome. Her built projects and writing have been published in books and magazines including Architectural Record, Log, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech (Harvard University Press), and California Houses: Creativity in Context (Thames & Hudson). Before joining the faculty of UCLA AUD, Katy worked at Artforum magazine, and taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she also received her MArch degree.

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  • Now Here
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    Education
    M.Arch., Harvard Graduate School of Design
    B.A., Barnard College
    Exterior shot of a house with an angular roof
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    Image of an exhibition featuring red carpet and metal duct-like sculpture hanging from the ceiling
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    Interior shot of a kitchen with an angled roof
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    rendering showing two houses, one upside down beneath the other
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    Interior shot looking through the full length of the house
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    Aerial view of a model
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    Three aerial views of a model
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    Black and white rendering
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    1. Front facade of 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    2. Superposition with Gabriel Fries-Briggs in Perloff Hall Gallery. Image credit: Joshua White
    3. Inside 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    4. Rendering of 1/2 House
    5. Inside 1/2 House, Los Angeles, California
    6. 3 Stairs, an exploration of a constellation of stairs
    7. 3 Stairs, an exploration of a constellation of stairs
    8. 2 Walls, a new experimental middle school in Westchester, Los Angeles
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