About Us

Joshua M. Nason is a Professor and the Dean of the Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. He directs the experimental design research collaborative Iterative Studio. Educated at Texas Tech University (BSArch, MBA, and MArch) and Cornell University (MArch II: Design and Discourse), Professor Nason teaches courses in architectural design, making, mapping, urbanism, theory, and design-build. Nason, with Jeffrey Nesbit, edited “Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations” (Routledge, 2018) and is featured in Nesbit’s “Nature of Enclosure” podcast and book (Actar/UrbanNEXT, 2022). Nason is editor of the forthcoming book, “K-Rob at 50,” and is hosting and producing, “Drawing Conclusions,” a podcast investigating pressing questions of architectural representation (AIA Dallas, 2024). Joshua's exhibited and published designs and research explore dynamic connections, relationships, and reciprocities in architectural, landscape, and urban projects – looking specifically at the inherent duality of representation of people and place. Some of his recent lectures include “Design: A Work in Process,” “Draw In/Draw Out: Participatory Maps as Event Urbanism,” “Awkward Mapping,” “Mapping + Change,” “Drawing [on] Urban Complexity,” “Anomalic Urbanism,” and “Place Pavilions: Inhabiting the Map.” His drawn and built work has been featured in exhibitions such as “Divergent Convergent: Speculations on China,” in Beijing, “Common Ground,” in New York City, “Profiling a City,” in Ithaca, and “The Place Pavilions,” in both Lubbock and Dallas.