Heather Bizon
Heather Bizon is Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. In this role, she teaches studios and seminars in the school's design programs with a focus on developing the thesis option. She also serves as the Director of Pre-College Architecture, an intensive and immersive summer program at Carnegie Mellon University that engages high school students in the creative energy and speculative culture of the college-level experience in studying the discipline of architecture.
Heather previously held the Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture with the school from 2018-19. In this role, she taught as part of Dana Cupkova’s third year studio team in the fall 2018 semester. In spring 2019, she ran her own ASOS (Advanced Synthesis Option Studio) titled “Identity + Making: The American Mash-Up.” She also delivered a lecture during the School of Architecture’s Fall 2018 Lecture Series.
Heather is an artist and architect whose work explores the individual's perception of space and public/private domains through new media and technology, sculpture, architecture and film. She has worked with MOS architects collaborating on projects of a range of scales from film to landscape to exhibitions to public works, including PS1 Young Architect's Pavilion 2009, Ordos 100 House in Mongolia Lot 006, and Marfa Drive In and Park. She received her B.Arch from Cornell University and M.Arch II from Yale University.
Fall 2025 Teaching
Typically, studios conduct site research and then design an intervention for that site. However, this is a studio where the design research part of the semester becomes the project itself.
This six-week mini course is designed to guide students in creating their personal architectural portfolios.
Spring 2025 Teaching
This studio investigates the Past Futures of the Great American Mississippi River. The studio is focused, in part, on the problem of how we construct facts and our understanding about the built environment.
This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics. Participants in the seminar develop an archive, original visualizations that utilizes multiple mediums and platforms, and culminate in a final project a part of an exhibition.