Nick Safley
Biography
Nick Safley is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design at 麻豆精选, where he teaches architectural design and building technology. His teaching, research, and creative practice examine the relationship between architecture and technology after the digital turn, with particular attention to materiality, construction, and the architectural image. Across these domains, his work treats images not merely as representations, but as material agents capable of reorganizing tectonics, construction logic, and architectural meaning. His design research has been disseminated through peer-reviewed writing, conferences, publications, exhibitions, competitions, and funded research, and his design work has received national and international recognition.
At Kent State, Safley serves as coordinator of the Integrated Design Studio and fourth-year studios. In addition, he teaches core building technology lecture courses, advanced graduate design studios, and elective seminars that position the classroom as a laboratory for material and technological experimentation. His courses foreground construction processes, material behavior, and technologically situated design techniques while encouraging students to critically engage architectural history, questions of labor, and professional practice.
Safley received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oklahoma in 2009 with Special Distinction and his Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan in 2013, where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal.