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Sean Canty is an American architect, cultural activist and academic. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge. Canty is co-Director of Office III, an experimental architectural collective, and founder of Studio Sean Canty based in Boston. [1]
Sean Canty received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the California College of the Arts. [2] During his academic tenure, he taught at the Cooper Union [3] in New York City, University of California Berkeley, [4] and California College of the Arts. [5] Before establishing his own firm, he was a Project Designer at Iwamoto Scott Architecture in San Francisco.
In 2020, Canty created a widely published list of 200 black creatives practicing in the United States as a response to Black Lives Matter. [6] The list was a compilation of designers, artists and architects including Thelma Golden, Germane Barnes, Olalekan Joyifous, V.Mitch McEwen and many others. [7] In 2017, as part of Office III, Canty designed and constructed an all timber visitors' center for Governors Island in New York City. [8]
Canty's current design focus is on residential work which he has presented during several academic lectures across the United States including public talks at the University of Pennsylvania, [9] AIA New York Center for Architecture, [10] Ohio State University, [11] Le Laboratoire, [12] CU Denver, [13] California College of the Arts, [14] Cal Poly Pomona [15] and Cornell University [16] to name a few. His work has been exhibited in several institutions and museums including the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. [17] In June 2021, his work titled “Drawing Doubles” was exhibited at the SoHo’s a83 gallery as part of the “Architectural Drawing: Not for Construction” exhibition. [18]
Sean Canty has been a frequent speaker and lecturer at several academic institutions across the U.S. and globally including University of Pennsylvania, [19] California College of the Arts, [20] Ohio State, [21] Center for Architecture, [22] Wentworth Institute of Technology, [23] CU Denver, [24] CalPoly Pomon a, [25] Woodbury University, [26] Cornell University, [27] University of Johannesburg, [5] Harvard University, [28] SoCal NOMAS. [29]
In 2020, Sean Canty was awarded the Richard Rogers Fellowship established by Harvard University alongside fellow architect Michelle Chang. [30]
The MoMA Young Architects Program shortlisted Canty in 2017 as one of four designers to envision a pavilion for the P.S.1 Museum courtyard. [31]
As part of the annual Times Square Valentines Heart program, Canty was shortlisted to create a design proposal for the 2020 competition. [32]
He was also finalist in the Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize competition with the focus to invite one emerging architect each year to the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. [33] Pin-Up Magazine featured Canty as one of eight emerging firms. [34]
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