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Samuel is an architect, public artist, and design educator from the Deep South. His research exists at the intersection of ecology, regional planning, and sociocultural practice, with particular interest in rural places and their communities. His research and scholarship examines the urban environment’s often exploitative relationships—not only with rural spaces—but also with international hinterlands, labor sectors, and markets of commodification as they relate to the production and export of American material culture.
Samuel is a current PhD student in Regional and Environmental Planning at Harvard University. He holds a Master's of Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Architecture and Interior Architecture from Auburn University. He spent the final year of his undergraduate studies at the Rural Studio designing and building his thesis, 20K House v15, an experiment in affordable, dignified rural housing. After becoming licensed following three years of work in Atlanta, he returned to school to continue to interrogate the capacity of design—at all scales—to create, promote, and sustain equitability.
Before starting his doctoral studies, Samuel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology from 2022 to 2025 and an adjunct professor from 2019 to 2022. While at Wentworth, he also served as the director of the FutureLab and summerFAB programs. Samuel was a part of the adjunct faculty in the Schools of Architecture and Design Studies at the Boston Architectural College. He taught in the Design for Human Health program from 2019 to 2025. In addition to his academic work, Samuel is a co-founder of make/do. studio, llc. He serves as the principal architect of the practice.
