Marc Swackhamer’s practice, HouMinn, with partner Blair Satterfield, challenges broadly accepted design approaches through focus on interdisciplinary partnerships, unconventional making, material misuse, and the role of decay in architecture. HouMinn has won national design awards from ACSA, Architect Magazine, ID Magazine, Fast Company, and Core77. Marc’s design collaborative, MinnLab, won the Minneapolis “Creative City Challenge” and a Minnesota American Society of Landscape Architects Deign Award. With Blaine Brownell, from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, he co-authored the book Hypernatural: Architecture’s New Relationship with Nature. At the University of Colorado Denver, Marc launched a post-disciplinary research laboratory called LoDo Lab, which was awarded a CU Denver Grand Challenge Grant for Biodegradable Landscape Infrastructure Pods (BLIP), a collaboration with Professors Assia Crawford from Architecture, Sara Branco from Integrative Biology, and Blair Satterfield. He is Dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at the Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He studied at the University of Cincinnati and Rice University.