Jonah Coe-Scharff is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator interested in the entangled politics of the domestic and the urban.

Jonah completed his MArch at the Princeton School of Architecture, where he received the Henry Adams AIA Medal and was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for his thesis, Living on the (Lot) Line, a series of housing designs that challenge typical relations between architecture and property in order to pose novel typological approaches to inclusive infill development. He also completed a Certificate in Urban Policy from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, contributing to research on equitable transit oriented development that was recognized with a Planning Excellence Award from the NJ chapter of the American Planning Association.

From 2021 to 2022, Jonah was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he led a publicly engaged design-research project, Densifying in Place: Five Proposals for Inclusive Infill Housing in Charlottesville, VA.

Jonah additionally holds dual master’s degrees in architecture/urban studies and intellectual history from Cambridge University, where his research focused on the history and politics of low-cost housing design in New York City. His MPhil Dissertation, Conceptualizing the Minimum Dwelling, 1900-1950, received the 2016 Alexander Pike dissertation prize and was presented as a lecture at the Architectural League of New York in 2019.

Jonah is currently an Architectural Designer at Höweler+Yoon and has previously practiced at WORKac and Somatic Collaborative. His theatrical set designs have been produced in Cambridge, UK, New Haven, CT, and upstate NY, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He served on the editorial board of Pidgin from 2018 to 2021, and his writing has appeared in Pidgin and the New York Review of Architecture.

Contact: jcoescharff /at/ gmail /dot/ com