About

M.S. Architecture, Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University

M.L.A., University of Virginia, School of Design

M.Arch, University of Virginia, School of Design

B.A., Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

Aja Bulla-Richards is an architectural and landscape architectural designer, public artist, and educator. She works at the intersection between vast social, ecological and conceptual systems and everyday experience. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive Aja is responsible for managing, designing and coordinating resilient landscape design projects and educational programs throughout California. As a lecturer in the landscape architecture and urbanism graduate program at USC Aja leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and sociocultural forces. Aja's ongoing research questions dominant cultural narratives, and explores multiple forms of knowledge formation and co-creation. Her projects explore how we can re-imagine and transform monofunctional systems into resilient socio-ecological cycles that engage and re-enchant everyday experience, promote alternative cultural practices, and uncover latent ecological processes.