Sustainability in the Classroom

 

LARA HOAD

Senior Lecturer

OTIS College of Art and Design

 

 

 

 

Architect and designer Lara Hoad is a graduate of London’s Royal College of Art. She has over twenty years of global experience practicing and teaching in Europe, Australia, and North and Central America and of having her own small practice. She oversees creative project direction at March Studio Branded Architecture and currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and at the School of Architecture at Woodbury University, Los Angeles. With biologist Sam Stier, Hoad has been teaching the class Science and Sustainable Design, a prerequisite for the minor in sustainability at Otis, since its inception in spring 2013. The class was innovative in that it brought together a designer and scientist to educate the students in the intersection of the two disciplines and particularly in the practice of biomimicry, or nature-inspired design.