Design Research & Architecture

Cary Siress is a design researcher at gravity. With a master’s degree from Columbia University and a PhD from ETH Zurich, he is an architect and urban designer who has worked as a design professor at universities and research institutions in Europe and Asia.

His research on the role of globalized capitalism in driving uneven planetary urbanization was recently published in the co-authored book Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory (Ruby Press, Berlin, 2019). He brings his love of design to gravity with eager commitment to working with others to make constructive change in how the world is made and lived.