Megan Groth
Architect and Urban Designer

Saturday, May 18, 9:30 AM
NewSchool of Architecture & Design
1249 F St. (enter off Park Blvd.)

As a souvenir of World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024, architect and educator Megan Groth’s book, Places We Love: San Diego Tijuana, fits the bill. She’ll share images from the book, talk about how it came about, and lead a rousing game of San Diego Tijuana Trivia inspired by the places in the book.

Megan Groth

Megan Groth holds a Bachelor’s of Biology from Pomona College, Master’s of Architecture from the University of Washington, and a Master’s of Sociology in City Design from the London School of Economics (LSE). She has been Practice Coordinator at Woodbury School of Architecture, where she taught professional practice at the Barrio Logan campus for 5 years until its closure this month.

Megan modeled Places We Love on a similar photo guidebook she bought in Helsinki during its 2012 World Design Capital year, while she was on scholarship at the Aalto University Wood Program. In London, she managed and co-edited Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (2018) at the LSE Cities Research Centre; and, taught studio at Oxford Brookes University.

Other international experiences included studying with Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, and, doing independent bamboo research in Asia and Latin America as a 2006 Thomas J Watson Fellow. Megan also has pursued architecture and language studies at Beijing University, the University of Copenhagen, the Syracuse University Program in Florence, Italy, and with Habitat for Humanity in Mexico.

In San Diego, Megan has championed design governance within city government, and is a founding organizer of the Transborder Association of Architectural Education. She was raised in Rancho Santa Fe and lives with her family in North Park – both places featured in the book. Copies of Places We Love will be available at the lecture, or can be purchased on the website, Places We Love: San Diego Tijuana, here: https://placeswelovesdtj.com/.

Our lecture will be held in the auditorium at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in Downtown San Diego at 1249 F Street.

Please arrive 10-15 minutes early for coffee, snacks, and catching up with old friends. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

A $5 donation is requested.