Patty Hazle

is a designer, researcher, writer, and builder working primarily with natural materials.

Patty currently leads the research and construction of innovative straw-based building systems, in collaboration with LTL Architects and Guy Nordenson and Associates, and supported by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.

Last year, Patty piloted the project, Sustaining Black History Through a Regenerative Future: The Margaret Walker Center at JSU, a collaboration between Princeton University and Jackson State University, wherein she created a feasibility study for the design of the new Margaret Walker Center, “a museum and archive dedicated to the preservation of African American history and culture” in mississippi. 

Patty received her Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for excellence in design. Her thesis—Building Pedagogy—proposes a liberatory education model, wherein students acquire participatory design skills and security for the future through the hands-on development of their own housing cooperatives. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan. 

Her experience includes editorial work for the forthcoming publication Norma Merrick Sklarek: Redefining Public, distributed by Princeton University Press, as well as teaching undergraduate Introduction to Architectural Design, graduate core studio, and the Post-Professional Thesis Seminar.

Patty has practiced with LTL Architects and Guy Nordenson and Associates in New York City and Workshop Architecten in Amsterdam. Dedicated to thriving existence on a finite planet, Patty has spent time building off-grid architecture in Michigan, New Mexico, England, and Ireland. 

Patty is always looking to take on new projects. Please reach out to her at pattyhazle@gmail.com