
Assistant Professor
Architecture and Environmental Design
Laurin Aman
- Email: laurin.aman@temple.edu
Laurin Aman (she/they) is an educator, researcher, designer, and fabricator. Her research, “(un)making material ecologies”, reimagines material life cycles to exist in reciprocity with environments and explores spatial potentials that materialize from forgotten or unfamiliar materialities. Light and color qualities, designed impermanence, and site specificity are her recurring curiosities, which she explores through materiality. Laurin’s work combines her knowledge of hand-crafting and manufacturing processes with emerging digital fabrication technologies to explore resilient architectural material systems.
Previously, Laurin was a M.S. Fellow and Research Assistant at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and practiced at *Alibi Studio in Detroit. Laurin worked in the architectural materials industry in New York City at the Designtex Custom Studio and Wolf Gordon Customs Lab, leading bespoke projects from ideation to final production. In these roles she collaborated with independent artists, visited mills to direct production, advanced sustainability initiatives, and organized community art-based events. These experiences influence her teaching and working methods, and Laurin presently operates in a post-disciplinary approach, interacting with collaborators from wide-ranging disciplines both within and beyond academia.
+ Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Michigan, 2013
+ Masters of Science in Architecture Design and Research | Digital and Material Technologies, University of Michigan, 2022
Selected Awards:
Master of Science Citizenship Award, University of Michigan, 2022
Master of Science Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2021-2022