Rate My Professor Jason Crow

Jason Crow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture within Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. A licensed architect in the state of Pennsylvania, he earned his PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University in 2014, with a dissertation titled "The Hierurgy of Stone in Suger's Restoration of Saint-Denis." He also holds two Masters of Architecture degrees, one from Iowa State University in 1995 with a thesis on "Divining the Father: A Cenotaph for Leonis Battista Alberti," and another from McGill University in 2007 titled "The Klepsydra of Pan." Additionally, he received a Bachelor of Design with Honors in Architecture from Clemson University in 1993. His academic career includes serving as Founding Chief Technology Officer of the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM), McGill University’s high-performance computation research laboratory, research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Arthur C. Tagge Fellow at McGill University.

Crow’s research specializations include medieval history, history and theory of craft and architecture, digital craft, architecture and computation, architectural robotics, and material ontology. He investigates how technological changes influence material ontology and artisanal epistemology, with a focus on material culture’s role in the origins of Gothic architecture. Key publications feature his 2024 peer-reviewed book, A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis (Amsterdam University Press), which received the 2025 ANZAMEMS Chris Jones Book Prize. Other notable works include “Fear and Bernard of Clairvaux’s Living Stones” published in Room One Thousand, the University of California at Berkeley’s interdisciplinary journal on architectural history, and “Approaching a Material History of Architecture” in Performative Materials in Architecture and Design (2013). His design outputs encompass “You are gone and lost forever” (2024), “Dunes Rolling Down Dunes” (2023), and “After Warracknabeal” (2022). Crow contributes to funded projects such as Decarbonising Buildings in Asia, Ecological Impacts of Material Supply Chains - Building 4.0 Scholarship, and the Warracknabeal Court House Orrery Project. He has delivered seven public lectures and seminars, participated in twelve press and media activities, and accepts PhD students.