Saba Salekfard is an architectural designer and educator from Los Angeles. She earned her Master’s in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor’s Degree from the California Polytechnic University, Pomona, receiving awards such as the Outstanding Thesis Prize and the David M. Schwarz/ Architectural Good Times Services Award. Her research investigates the relationship between domesticity and urbanism and has been the recipient of the Paul Katz / KPF Fellowship. She has been an editor for journals like Retrospecta and Paprika! and her work has been published for Archinect, Vice, and the World Architecture Festival. Saba has taught at Cal Poly’s Department of Architecture as a lecturer and studio professor, and worked for the international firm 5+ Design. Currently she is working and researching in New York City.
Saba's School Blog on Archinect:
Collections & Curations : A Repository
Investigating architecture's ability to reach a broader culture.
Towards Neuro-Spatial Diversity: Thoughts on the Relationship Between Architecture and the Patterns of the Mind, Sun, Mar 15 '20
“Too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans… what’s normal anyway…” opines mixed-race, LA-born R&B artist Miguel on his 2015 track, “What’s Normal Anyway.” The artist’s self-identified ethnic identity quandary serves to mirror our understanding of the ...
Cross-Talk #4: Saba Salekfard on 'Academic Aesthetics', Thu, Feb 8 '18
Cross-Talk is a recurring series on Archinect that endeavors to bring architectural polemics and debate up-to-date and up-to-speed with the pace of cultural production today. Each installation will feature an introduction premise along with four responses by four practitioners to a single ...
Machine Inspired Art (MIA) Gallery, Los Angeles, Designer
Two summers as a design intern for Machine Inspired Art Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles
Outstanding Thesis Award, Award
