JAE Announces McLain Clutter as Interim Executive Editor

For Immediate Release:
Washington, D.C. September 25, 2024 — McLain Clutter, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, has been named the Interim Executive Editor of the ACSA’s Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). His term began September 1, 2024, and will continue through April 2026. Clutter has served on the JAE Editorial Board since 2019.

“I am honored to serve in this role, and to build on the contributions of my successors in fostering the JAE as a space of academic integrity, rigorous peer review, and cutting-edge design and scholarship addressing some of the most complex issues facing our discipline and society,” says Clutter.

As an architect, educator, and partner in the design practice EXTENTS, Clutter’s work is deeply embedded in the exploration of architecture’s role within contemporary urbanism and its intersections with media culture. His contributions to the field have been widely recognized and published in renowned journals and platforms such as Grey Room, Thresholds, MONU, JAE, The Avery Review, DISC, and e-flux, as well as the edited volumes Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Cities and the Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Clutter has also exhibited his work in prestigious international venues, including the 7th and 8th Bi-City Biennales of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, the Architecture League of New York, and Materials & Applications in Los Angeles, among others.

Clutter’s design and research achievements have been acknowledged with numerous awards, including an Architect Magazine R+D Award (2015) and ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2015, 2019, and 2020). His research has received support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He is the author of Imaginary Apparatus: New York City and its Mediated Representation (Park Books, 2015), and co-author of Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire (ORO Editions, 2021).

As Executive Editor, McLain will work with the JAE Editorial Board to shape journal themes that embrace both timeless and timely issues within architectural design, history, theory, and pedagogy, while overseeing and maintaining the peer-review process for the print journal and curating online content for both JAEOnline.org and JAE’s social media.