Faculty
James Huemoeller
James is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture and head of Design Build for SALA. James also runs JIM, a studio focused on designing structures within an urbanizing, post-anthropocene landscape. JIM is a member of the Field Collective, a coalition of small BC architectural firms sharing resources and knowledge to address our communities’ challenges, such as social injustice and climate change. Before starting his firm, James practiced across North America on projects ranging from Alaska’s North Slope schools to pro-bono community projects in Philadelphia’s inner city. He has also worked as a project manager for several contractors and fabricators.
Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, James grew up on the ancestorial territories of the Apsáalooke, Lakota, Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Nations and forty-eight other Tribal Nations that were tied to the lands for trade, hunting, gathering, and healing.
Contact: jhoemoeller (@) sala.ubc.ca
Annalisa Meyboom
AnnaLisa Meyboom is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on the intersection of design, technology, and the environment, particularly in the areas of advanced architectural design processes and robotic fabrication of wood, and urban informatics and autonomous vehicles. She has a particular interest in the potential of digital fabrication and robotics to enable new modes of design and construction in wood, as well as the implications of future technologies on how we design our cities.
AnnaLisa has a Master’s in Architecture from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Applied Science from University of Waterloo. She has been a visiting professor, lecturer and invited critic at a number of universities, including the University o Stuttgart Institute for Computational Design, University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Virginia, South-East University in China, and the University of Calgary. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and workshops, and has published in a number of journals and books. She has authored two books – “Driverless Urban Futures” and “Design Capital: The Hidden Value of Design in Infrastructures.”
AnnaLisa is an active member of the academic and design community. She is a registered engineer and has worked on a range of speculative and realized projects both in engineering and architecture, from small-scale residential to bridges and large-scale urban design.
She teaches research studios, design-build classes, advanced structures and computing seminars, architectural structures courses, and robotic fabrication seminars, as well as architectural thesis students.
Contact: ameyboom (@)sala.ubc.ca
Greg Johnson
With a background in architecture and engineering, Greg has integrated the two disciplines throughout his 30-year architectural practice. He was part of early passive solar design and energy conservation initiatives, and recently larger issues of sustainability and high-performance buildings.
Greg maintains an involvement in practice as a partner in the firm Principle Architecture, whose work focuses primarily on institutional projects throughout British Columbia, much of it with School Districts, non-profit organizations, and First Nation communities.
Greg has played a key role in establishing the annual design-build course for students to obtain practical construction experience, and is active in coordinating and promoting the architectural co-op program to place students in work situations.