Jose Sanchez is an associate professor of architecture at Cornell Tech and the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He is also an architect, game designer, and media artist practicing in New York.
Sanchez is the director of the Plethora Project, a research studio investing in the future of the propagation of architectural design knowledge. He is the creator of the video games “Block’hood” and “Common’hood,” which are digital social platforms that aid the authoring of architectural and ecological thinking to non-expert audiences.
He is also the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms,” published by Routledge in 2020, and the co-creator of “Bloom,” a crowdsourced interactive installation which was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the 2012 Olympics.
Sanchez has taught in the United States and Europe, including at the Architectural Association in London, the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, the University of Southern California, and the University of Michigan. At Cornell Tech, his current research, “Mediated Assemblies,” designs and interrogates simulation and interactive media as a collaborative, embodied, and situated practice.