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Headshot of Jerome Haferd, leaning against a wall and looking at the camera.

Jerome Haferd

Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]

https://www.jeromehaferd.com​

Biography :

Jerome W Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. Haferd is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture where he co-directs the Mellon funded Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator. He is principal of the award-winning Jerome Haferd Studio. Haferd is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow and a 2026 Van Alen Vanguard, and serves on the Board of Directors of The Architectural League of New York. He recently exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Jerome Haferd Studio critically engages built environment projects at the intersection of preservation and design, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, art, and cultural infrastructure. Haferd’s work on complex sites includes collaborations with the Harlem African Burial Ground, NYCHA, The Park Avenue Armory, and the National Black Theatre. He was lead architect and designer for the 2023-24 Culture, Creativity, and Care Initiative with the Mellon Foundation and Harlem Grown. The studio is a first prize recipient for the International Africatown Design Competition and is working on a permanent public artwork and plaza for the East River Esplanade. The studio has been commissioned alongside AYON Studio to reimagine the historic Amsterdam News Headquarters in Harlem. Most recently, the team has completed “Migration”, the Exodus & Dance heritage artwork with colleague Ifeoma Ebo / Creative Urban Alchemy, NYCHA and PHCF. Other recent projects include El Bombodromo, an Afro-Ecuadorian culture and performance campus with Caá Porá Arquitectura in Ecuador, and a Scholars’ Residence and cultural site in Accra, Ghana.

Haferd’s work and scholarship has been exhibited and published widely, including articles in JAE, PLOT, LOG, Architect Magazine, and other publications. Haferd is also a core initiator of Dark Matter U (DMU), a BIPOC led network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice. Haferd received the 2022 #BlackVisionaries award as part of a DMU cohort.

Educational Credentials :

  • M.Arch., Yale University, 2010
  • B.S. with Distinction, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, 2007

Teaching Experience :

  • Assistant Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2022-present
  • Substitute Assistant Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2021-2022
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2019-2021
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2017-2022
  • Adjunct Faculty, Columbia University, 2013-2017
  • Lecturer, Yale University, 2021-2022
  • Initiating Member and Faculty, Dark Matter U., 2020-present
  • Adjunct Faculty, Barnard College, 2019-2021
  • Adjunct Faculty, NJIT, 2017-2018
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, 2017-2018​

Professional Experience :

  • Jerome Haferd Studio, New York, 2012-present
  • BRANDT : HAFERD, New York, 2012-2022
  • Jerome W. Haferd, Registered Architect, New York, 2017-present

Licenses/Registration :

  • Architecture License, New York State

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

  • Essays:
    • With Curry J. Hackett, "Fugitive Practice," Journal of Architectural Education 77:1 (2023): 124-129.
    • “Trans-Institutional Pedagogies,” Yale Constructs (Winter/Spring 2021).
    • “An Archaeology of Architecture” Log 48 (Winter/Spring 2020).
    • “P.O.P.S.”, MRPJ Movement Research Performance Journal 54 (2020).
    • With K Brandt Knapp, "Labeling Practice," Paprika! (February 2018).
    • "Notes on the Acropolis," Project 6 (Spring 2017).
    • "Make it Work: New Business, New Models (Interview)," Oculus (Winter 2016-17).
  • Lectures:
    • Talking Race + Architecture: A Teach-In," with Dark Matter University, Center for Architecture, April 2021.
    • “An Archaeology of Architecture," Historic Preservation Series, GSAPP, Columbia University, 2021.
    • "A Geography of Practice," School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, October 2020.
    • "UnDesigning Practice,” Virginia Tech, September 2020.
    • With Mitch McEwen, “Junky Systems," December 2020.
    • "Short Talks," Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, 2020.
    • “Prototypes,” Black Imagination Matters Symposium, Princeton University, 2019.
    • With K Brandt Knapp. “Collective-Scale,” GSAPP, Columbia University, 2018.
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