Born in Alabama, Bonner is a recipient of the 2021 United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Emerging Voices Award (AIA / Young Architects Forum), Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award and Next Progressives (Architect Magazine). Her creative work has been published in architectural trade publications including Architectural Review, Metropolis, Gray, Azure and Wallpaper*, as well as more experimental journals including a+t, DAMN, PLAT, Offramp, Room One Thousand, Flat Out and MAS Context. She is editor of Blank: Speculations on CLT (with Hanif Kara), author of A Guide to the Dirty South: Atlanta, faculty editor of Platform: Still Life, and guest editor for ART PAPERS special issue on architecture and design of Los Angeles. Bonner has exhibited work at the Royal Institute of British Architects, National Building Museum, WUHO gallery, HistoryMIAMI, Yve YANG gallery, pinkcomma gallery, Armstrong Gallery at Kent State, Yale Architecture Gallery, Istanbul Modern Museum, Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Bonner received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize for her project Assemblage of Twins. Her undergraduate thesis project, the Cedar Pavilion, was designed and constructed at the Rural Studio in Perry County, Alabama and received an AR Award for Emerging Architecture (2005). Bonner previously worked in the office of Foster+Partners and David Chipperfield Architects in London and Istanbul. She was an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the M.Arch II program at Harvard GSD from 2015-2023. She also held the position of TVSDesign Distinguished Studio Critic Georgia Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at Woodbury University.

jennifer@jenniferbonner.com

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Sam Sheffer (they/them, he/him) is Design Director at MALL, where they have worked since 2022. Born in Seattle, Sheffer co-leads design, materials innovation, and project coordination at MALL. Their independent research and design work has been published in Thresholds and Paprika, and was recently featured in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Sheffer holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard GSD and a Bachelor’s degree from Whitman College, where they double-majored in Sculpture and Geology. They have taught architecture and industrial design studios at RISD, Rice, and MIT, and have been a guest critic at institutions including Yale, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Wentworth, and Boston Architectural College.

sam.sheffer@jenniferbonner.com