tyler survant

Tyler is an architect and instructor at the Montana State University School of Architecture, a principal at Scratch Studio, a traditional for-profit design firm, and the cofounder — with Anna Leshnick — of Building Bureau, a non-profit design organization. Tyler’s architectural experience has focused on projects in the “global South.” With SHoP Architects he relocated to Gaborone, Botswana for on-site construction administration of the Botswana Innovation Hub, an $85 million USD tech incubator for the country’s Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology. With Sharon Davis Design, he project managed the Bayalpata Hospital, a rammed earth medical campus in the Himalayas for Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population.

Concerned with the social impact of the built environment and architecture’s political potential, Tyler’s research has ranged from zoopolitics in the work of the Sixties-era countercultural practice Ant Farm to the synthesis of parametric design processes and vernacular building practices. A 2015 symposium at the Goethe Institut in Kigali, Rwanda, organized with Yutaka Sho of Syracuse University, addressed land politics in Rwanda with an emphasis on affordable housing. His essays have appeared in Project Journal, ArchDaily, Horizonte, and Log.