Coleman Coker
Coleman Coker is the first Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and director of the Gulf Coast DesignLab, a community outreach program focusing on environmental education. The Gulf Coast DesignLab has been recognized for its design excellence with state, national and international awards.
Coker is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and holds a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. He’s taught at numerous schools of architecture and is past director of the Memphis Center of Architecture, an urban design program that focused on thinking through the hands as students explored local ecologies through the art of building.
He has over thirty years as principal of his own firms, founding buildingstudio in 2000 after a thirteen-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/Coker Architects. He’s lectured extensively at professional forums and universities and has received numerous honors including National AIA Honor awards.