Justin Kollar

Doctoral Student

Justin Kollar is a PhD candidate at MIT and is pursing the Advanced Urbanism concentration with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). His research and professional experience in architecture and urban planning brings a social and economic perspective to the design of the spatial and built environment across multiple scales. He holds master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Planning. Justin’s work is situated at the intersection of territorial studies, resilience planning, administrative landscapes, infrastructural ecology, and institutional development in cities in North America as well as across Central, Southeast, and East Asia.