Joel Sanders Architect

Joel Sanders

In addition to running his studio based in New York City, Joel is a Professor at the Yale School of Architecture with a secondary appointment as a Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was the Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture at Parsons School of Design and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Joel received both a B.A. and M.Arch from Columbia University.

The editor of Stud: Architectures of Masculinity (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), he frequently writes about art and design, most recently in Pin-up, Art Forum and the Harvard Design Magazine. His monograph, Joel Sanders: Writings and Projects, was published by Monacelli Press in 2005. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, co-edited with Diana Balmori, was released by Monacelli Press in 2011.

An active member of the design community, he has served on committees and panels on behalf of the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell Colony, American Institute of Architects, Architectural League, the GSA Peer Review, and the Van Alen Institute's Program Leadership Council.

Marco Li

Since joining JSA in 2012, Marco has served as both Project Architect and Project Manager on several award-winning academic, institutional, and residential projects at JSA. Li has led design teams for the firm’s portfolio of cultural and residential projects, most recently at the National Museum of Stockholm. In all of these projects, Li has addressed code compliance, adaptive re-use, multi-functional programming, cost estimation, detailing, specifications and the spatial dimensions of diversity, equity and inclusion. He holds both a B. Arch and M. Arch from UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design.

Greg Epstein

Greg brings years of experience realizing design visions, and has led JSA design teams through cost estimating, construction documents, spec-writing, and construction administration. Prior to joining JSA, he served as a Senior Designer and Project Architect at the acclaimed firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, where he oversaw the design and construction of a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional projects throughout the United States.

Matthew Liu

Matthew is a core design contributor to JSA/MIXdesign, bringing international working experience in Australia and Japan at firms like Denton Corker Marshall and the Takenaka Corporation. Matthew holds a B. Arch from RMIT University, and M. Arch from Yale School of Architecture, where he was the recipient of the YSoA Drawing Prize.

Seb Choe

Seb directs the efforts of MIXdesign staff and collaborators on research, education, and fundraising initiatives. Managing projects like Stalled! and MIXmuseum, they oversee research and design teams, organize lectures and workshops, and disseminate our work in publications. Seb holds a B.A in Architecture from Columbia University, where they were the recipient of the Portfolio Design Award.

Camille Esquivel

Camille directs and manages the active and prospective projects of MIXdesign, ensuring the continued success of the practice's thoughtful endeavors and the sustainable growth of the practice. She oversees MIXdesign’s daily operations and supports the team's efforts in research, education and advocacy. Prior to joining JSA/MIXdesign, Camille worked on architectural strategy projects for clients like JP Morgan-Chase Bank, and has worked for small and mid-sized architecture and interior design firms in Vancouver, Toronto and New York. Camille holds an M.Architecture and M.Sc in Urban Planning from Columbia University, with a B. of Environmental Design from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (where she is from).

Nate Sloan

Nate Sloan oversees the day-to-day operations of the office, ensuring that all staff members are equipped to carry out their roles and responsibilities. In coordination with the rest of the MIX team, he provides support with managing project logistics, conducting research, and developing language. Before joining JSA/MIXdesign, Nate worked on research and administration at multiple arts organizations in New York.

Hansel Bauman

Hansel Bauman is the founder of the human-centered design consultancy HB/a+p. Bauman served as adjunct faculty and campus architect for Gallaudet University—the only liberal arts university in the world fully dedicated to serving deaf and hard of hearing students. In 2006 he co-founded the Gallaudet DeafSpace* Project a user-centered design and research initiative exploring the socio/spatial dynamics of deaf experiences. He led the development of the DeafSpace Design Guidelines—a catalogue of over 100 architectural principles attuned to deaf spatial sensibilities for which he received the International Association of Universal Design, Gold Award in 2015. Bauman is a member of the International Code Council’s Accessibility Standards Committee. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of American History.

*DeafSpace is a Registered Servicemark of Gallaudet University

Eron Friedlaender

Eron Friedlaender, MD, MPH is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research has centered on how conditions in the built environment relate to injury risk as well as documenting ways in which individuals with autism are vulnerable within health care systems. She leads program development supported by ongoing research initiatives to shape a comprehensive approach to the care of children with autism and related developmental disabilities within the hospital environment. As an advocate for those with autism, she has developed models for community inclusion nationally. She continues to build on her experience as a parent of a child with autism with formal training in advocacy, in collaboration with colleagues at the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on community education, and as a medical provider for children in crisis.

Magda Mostafa

Magda Mostafa is the author of the Autism ASPECTSS™ Design Index, the first research-based design framework for autism worldwide. Through her practice, Progressive Architects, Mostafa has used ASPECTSS™ to design projects in a range of scales, from interior classroom retrofits to urban-scale neighborhoods in Europe, the US, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the UAE. ASPECTSS™ has been presented at the United Nations as a framework for international autism design policy, as well as showcased in lectures and keynotes at Harvard’s GSD, the National Autistic Society in the UK, Ireland’s AsIAM and the World Autism Organization. She is also an Associate Professor of Design in the Architecture Department of the American University in Cairo, and the Co-Director of the UNESCO-UIA Education Commission and Validation Council, which is a global think-tank tasked with setting architectural education policy and practices as well as upholding threshold standards of excellence.

Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo served as a Chief Accessibility Specialist at the NYC Department of Transportation, overseeing all matters of accessibility for the agency and effectively representing the interests of over 850,000 New Yorkers with disabilities. He is a New Yorker with a disability, committed to innovative solutions for barrier free urban space that fosters diversity. In 2015, Arroyo pioneered a handcycle pilot-program, providing New Yorkers with disabilities the same opportunity to use bikes during Summer Streets. He also facilitated a collaboration between the DOT and Pedestrians for Accessible and Safe Streets (PASS), an organization dedicated to ensuring accessible infrastructure for New Yorkers with impaired vision and hearing.

Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, is a leading figure in the field of transgender studies. She earned her Ph.D. in United States History at UC Berkeley in 1992, subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford, and has held distinguished visiting faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Simon Fraser (Vancouver), Macquarie (Sydney) and Mills College (Oakland). She is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies Reader, founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker for Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. She is the former executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York-based American Museum of LGBTQ+ History.

JSA Alumni

Caitlin Baiada
Josh Dannenberg
Vanessa Gonzalez
Hannah Langr
Clement Nespoulous
Lee Onbargi
Sabina Peci
Damu Radheshwar
Catherine Shih
Radhika Singh
Jean Suh
Sam Velasquez
Edward Wang