Julian Harake, NCARB, is a registered architect, exhibiting artist, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Montana State University’s School of Architecture with over a decade of experience in residential architecture, exhibition design, and university teaching.
He received his Bachelor’s with High Honors from UC Berkeley in 2013 and his Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 2016, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for design excellence. After graduating, he spent six years in the New York offices of Guy Nordenson and Reiser+Umemoto, contributing to international competitions, high-end residential projects, and cultural work including the Frick Collection Renovation, the Institute for Advanced Study’s Rubenstein Commons, Day’s End by David Hammons with the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. With Reiser+Umemoto he also led the design and management of Geoscope 2, exhibited in the Central Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
His artwork has been shown nationally in New York, Montana, Oregon, and California, with upcoming exhibitions at Exit Gallery at Montana State University and the Holter Museum of Art in 2028. Support includes grants from the Montana Arts Council and Creatives Rebuild New York, as well as residencies at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology and the Oregon Coast School of Art.
At Montana State University he teaches design studios and seminars. He has previously taught at UC Berkeley, Barnard College, Syracuse University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and The New School. His essays, artist profiles, and reviews have appeared in Dispatches Magazine, LUM Art Magazine, The Montecito Journal, the New York Review of Architecture, Pidgin, See/Saw, and several published books.
