Amy Campos

Amy Campos the founder and principal of ACA (Amy Campos Architect) and holds a tenure-track professorship in the Interior Design Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work focuses on critical issues of durability and design with an emphasis on full-scale installation and
fabrication. The work spans a variety of scales from urban research to architecture and interiors to object and furniture design.

Prior to establishing ACA, Campos's professional experience includes working as a senior designer and project manager at Atema Architecture in New York as well as with SHoP Architects and Brian Healy Architects, among others in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Florence.

Campos has taught design for 10 years at the scale of architecture, urban design, interior design, and 3D foundational studies at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to joining CCA’s faculty, she has most recently taught at the Pratt Institute and Columbia University. At CCA Campos is currently teaching sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level Interior Design studios, sophomore architectural studios, "Professional Practice for Interior Designers," as well as the Visual and Critical Studies "Sites" graduate seminar.

Campos is a registered architect in the state of New York, and has been LEED accredited since 2004. She received her master of science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts in architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.