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 "Mining Figures: Work Structures in Appalachia," at CCA in December 2005 and Sydney in August 2006 (on the subject of Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity), and "Design in the Unconscious," for the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, June 2007.