Assistant Professor Carmen G. Trudell


Assistant Professor, Architectural Technology
BArch, California Polytechnic State University
Master of Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University
Registered Architect in CA
LEED Accredited Professional


Professor Carmen Gayle Trudell is a designer. Her expertise ranges from single family homes on the California coast to 40-story high-rise, mixed-use residential towers in Manhattan; from teaching professionals AutoCAD to teaching fourth graders the Built Environment Educational Program (BEEP); from design and engineering of a do-it-yourself individual power plant to large scale sustainable urban planning including local power production; from graphic design to space planning for an anti-terrorist training facility at a nuclear power plant. Professor Trudell is a partner in BOTH, a laboratory investigating the relationship between landscape and architecture. She is also a partner in fluxxlab; an experimental design studio where inventions propose novel ways to engage people and energy. In addition, she is a resident artist at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in Manhattan. Professor Trudell graduated cum laude from California Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor of Architecture and received her Master of Advanced Architectural Design degree from Columbia University. There, Bernard Tschumi awarded her the Lowenfish Memorial Prize for best final semester design project.