Malcolm McCullough is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan, where he has helped create America’s first undergraduate degree in Urban Technology.
Previously he served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University (1998–2000), and for ten years (1988–98) at Harvard University. Earlier he was a pioneer of architectural computing at Autodesk (1984–86.) McCullough remains a widely-read writer on digital design culture. His book Digital Ground (2004) became a key crossover between architecture and interaction design. Ambient Commons (2013) introduced information environmentalism. Downtime on the Microgrid (2020) looked at urban resilience. Abstracting Craft (1996) remains an early cult classic in digital work practices. Digital Design Media (1991, with William Mitchell) was a pioneering textbook that appeared five languages. On the basis of these writings, McCullough has given nearly fifty invited talks in over a dozen countries. Currently, he is at work on a new book about ambient information: Active City Reading–A Walk in Urban Technology.
Malcolm McCullough is a visiting scholar at the Civic IxD research group during September 2023.