Julian Harake is a registered architect, artist, and educator, shaped by his upbringing along Central California’s vibrant coastline. He is the founder of Studio Harake, an art and design office mediating architecture, nonlinear dynamics, digital fabrication, and improvisation to bridge cultural forms and natural systems, all underlied by a deep respect for nature.

From handmade ceramics to automatic drawing, and from 3D printing to digital physics simulations, Julian’s work seamlessly blends high and low technologies, producing objects and environments which belong explicitly to neither category. Furthermore, Julian’s practice reflects a convergence of his cultural roots, artistic endeavors, and dedicated mentorship, inspiring others to recognize the correlations between design, nature, and creativity.

A committed educator, Julian has facilitated university-level courses since the age of 19, beginning with a contemporary art course for students in outside disciplines at UC Berkeley. Since then, he has developed and taught design studios, advanced seminars, and theory courses at a range of institutions, including Princeton University, Barnard College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and Syracuse University.

Julian’s creative contributions have been exhibited in numerous galleries, and his essays and criticism have been featured in Dispatches Magazine, the New York Review of Architecture, Pidgin, and See/Saw, alongside several published books. In 2020, Julian managed the design and installation of Geoscope 2 with Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture, which was exhibited in the Central Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture. He also led the curation and design of three exhibitions with RUR—Weaponized Craft at a83 gallery (2022), Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center at Cooper Union’s School of Architecture (2022), and Building Beyond Place at ETAY Gallery / TAAC Tribeca (2019).

Julian received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2013 and M.Arch. from Princeton University in 2016, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. He is currently an artist in residence at Santa Barbara’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology.