The California College of the Arts has announced Keith Krumwiede as the school's new Dean of Architecture. Beginning in August, Krumwiede will be taking over duties from Lisa Findley, who has been serving as Interim Dean since Jonathan Massey left to head the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan back in August of 2017. 

“We are thrilled to welcome educator, designer, author, and satirist Keith
Krumwiede to CCA. Keith is a multifaceted professional that maintains a rare sense of humor about architecture while greatly advancing the field through his work in higher education, scholarship, criticism, and design,” says CCA Provost Tammy Rae Carland. “I am looking forward to seeing the students and the division benefit from his wide-ranging experience, critical insights, architectural knowledge, and demonstrated leadership in the classroom.”

Krumwiede is joining the school from the American Academy in Rome, where he is currently an Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. He has previously taught at Berkeley, MIT, Otis College of Art and Design and Rice University. He has also extensive experience in academic leadership, having served as the Director of Graduate Architecture Program at New Jersey Institute of Technology from 2012-17, and was Assistant Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University from 2004-2012. 

In addition, Krumwiede is a well-regarded satirist, whose recent book Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction, mixed sci-fi, and the sublime to envision utopian villages built out of suburban McMansions.His own design work is focused on the development of sustainable, climate-responsive, high density urban housing prototypes.

The announcement comes amid CCA's massive expansion. The school is creating a new, expanded college campus spearheaded by Studio Gang architects. According to the school, the new design will be a model of sustainable construction and practice and will unite the college's programs in art, crafts, design, architecture, and writing in one location. It will also provide new, greatly needed student housing.