Maria Mcvarish

Maria McVarish is an architect, artist, and visual researcher practicing in San Francisco. Her projects have been published locally and nationally. She has lectured in architecture at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design and, since 1996, teaches interdisciplinary studies, critical theory, and design at CCA.

Her public lectures include: "Hazard Figures: Heritage, Memorial and Wasting in Appalachia" at Massey University, New Zealand in December 2010; ‘Imaginary Spaces,’ at San Jose State University (November 2009); 'in Visible Memory,' at Syracuse University (October 2008); 'Design in the Unconscious' for the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (June 2007); and ‘Mining Figures: Work Structures in Appalachia' at CCA in December 2005 and Sydney, Australia in August 2006 (on the subject of 'Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity').

Recent and upcoming publications include: ‘The Place of Interior Design’ (on the gendering of space) in Architecture California: the Journal of the American Institute of Architects (winter 2008) and ‘Barn Again,’ an eco-house in the Napa Valley in California Home and Design (November 2009). Her work has also been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner magazine, the Southface Journal, ZYZZYVA, diacritics, How(ever), and CNN’s television series, Earth-Wise.