University of California, Davis

Christina Cogdell is Professor of Design at UC Davis. She is a historian of biodesign in 20th- and 21st-century architecture and design, and a current practitioner of biodesign for teaching and research. She has led UC Davis teams in the Biodesign Challenge since 2018 and considers it the most rewarding teaching experience of her career. She is author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (2004) and Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design (2019).