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Alison Mears

Alison Mears is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Parsons HML, Director and Co-founder of HML EU gGmbH and Associate Professor of Architecture at Parsons School of Design. Alison leverages her practice-based experience as an architect and her knowledge as an academic leader to confront one of the often overlooked challenges of our time: the health of the built environment. HML creates resources, educational programming, and prototypical innovative housing models for a new post-petroleum world. Alison is the recipient of multiple grants and lectures disseminating current thinking within the field of material health. Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth were awarded the 2022 Women in Architecture Innovation Award from Architectural Record and co-edited “Material Health: Design Frontiers.