Suzan Hampton

An insatiable multi-hyphenate, Suzan Hampton teaches and conducts practice-led research in architecture, environmental design, and public art to explore how design of the built environment best fosters community, environmental, and economic resilience. She creates interactive, relational experiences in public space that generate meaning and deepen connections - bringing people together with the natural world and nurturing the wellbeing of both. Through her work, Hampton asks, “How can designed solutions be scaled to combat the negative effects of climate change and human displacement? And in what ways can effective project design strategies best be transmitted via design education, publication, and other forms of communication?” Her architectural design practice features sustainable residential and commercial architecture, estate landscape architecture, and public art installations in the California Wine Country, as well as museum exhibition design, place-branding, and land development planning in the Kansas City Metro. Her most recent projects integrate biomimetic art and architecture in public spaces and are delivered in collaboration with university architecture design-build students, community members, government, and business partners. Hampton graduated with her M.Arch from the University of New Mexico in 2008, and has been a credentialed LEED AP BD+C (building design + construction specialization) since 2010.