Sean A. Gallagher is the Director of Sustainable Design and Associate Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a 115-person interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the performing arts, and the visual arts. His work and research focuses on re-evaluating the traditional relationship between the public and urban environments to develop new strategies to increase social space through sustainable design.

Sean’s recent projects include the United States Olympic Museum, Columbia University’s Business School Towers, and Chicago’s Rubenstein Forum. As the Director of Sustainable Design, he has played a critical role in the visioning process and interview teams for many of the studio’s new work; including Budapest Transportation Museum, MIT’s MET, Charlotte’s Discovery Place Science Museum, and Madrid’s Renazca Project.

Sean has presented his research and work on urbanism and sustainability at national and international conferences, providing the keynote lectures at AIA’s “United States Goals for LPOE: Design Excellence, Sustainability, Security and Transit,” the Green Building Council’s “Buildgreen Argentina + Expo 2014 International Conference,”” and the International Congress of Bioclimatic Architecture “High Technology and Sustainable Design” in Mexico City.

Sean is currently Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He is also a board member for the Embankment Coalition, an organization that will turn Jersey City’s downtown abandoned Pennsylvania raised rail into a public urban forest and East Coast Greenway link.