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

Jerome Haferd

Assistant Professor

Email: jhaferd@ccny.cuny.edu

https://www.jeromehaferd.com​

Biography :

Jerome W. Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is principal of the award winning JEROME HAFERD Studio. Haferd is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture where he co-directs the new Place, Memory, & Culture Incubator at SSA. Haferd was recently awarded a 2025 United States Artist Fellow and will be part of the United States pavilion in the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Haferd’s practice and research critically engages built environment projects in both urban and rural contexts, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, design, and cultural infrastructure. His work on complex sites currently engages what he calls ‘Radical Preservation’, and includes collaborations with the Harlem African Burial Ground, Roots to Sky Collective, The Park Avenue Armory, and the National Black Theatre. He is lead architect and installation designer for the 2023-24 Culture, Creativity, and Care Initiative with the Mellon Foundation and Harlem Grown. Haferd’s writings have been published in numerous journals and the studio’s work has been exhibited internationally.

His team’s recent projects include the Sankofa and Aleia installations in Harlem, and the First Prize winning Africatown Competition Proposal “In the Wake”, the BLK BOX experimental arts venue and Beautiful Browns, awarded second prize in the 2021 OnOlive emerging Black architect housing competition. Haferd has been commissioned to install ‘Water Table’, a permanent public artwork and plaza for New York’s East River Esplanade.

Haferd is a core initiator of Dark Matter U, a BIPOC led trans-disciplinary network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice. He received the 2022 #BlackVisionaries award as part of a DMU cohort and co-led the DMU “Constellation” exhibit at the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Trienale.

Haferd has worked for internationally recognized firms including OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi Architects, where he was project leader on numerous institutional, planning, and exhibition projects worldwide. In May 2023, he was elected to the Board of Directors of The Architectural League of New York.

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, 2022-present
  • BRANDT : HAFERD (Jerome W Haferd & K Brandt Knapp), New York, 2012-2022
  • Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York/Paris, 2010-2017
  • Harrison Atelier, New York, 2010
  • Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Beijing, 2009
  • Zephyr Architects, Beijing, 2008
  • NBBJ Design, Columbus, OH, 2007
  • ka architecture, Cleveland, OH, 2006
  • TC Architects, Akron, OH, 2005

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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