Morgane Copp
Assistant Teaching Professor
Morgane Copp is a French-American architectural designer based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Nottingham and a Master of Architecture from UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (AUD), where she graduated with distinction. Prior to joining CAP as an Assistant Teaching Professor, Copp was part of the faculty at UC Berkeley, California College of Arts (CCA), and UCLA, where she served as associate director of the AUD Summer Programs.
Her work and research explores the transformation of types and images, sometimes simultaneously. It aims for typological estrangement—one in which familiar forms are subverted to uncover hybrids, embracing multitudes. This process leads to a critical engagement with the image, both as a constructed medium and as a reflection of cultural identity and values through the built form. Such underpins Copp’s recent investigations into preservation—moving beyond mere physical conservation to critically examine how value is assigned, mediated, and represented through the built form.
Copp has practiced architecture internationally in Athens, New York, Basel, San Diego, and Los Angeles for firms including Young & Ayata, Herzog & de Meuron, and Rob Wellington Quigley Architects. She has worked on a wide array of typologies and scales, ranging from high-end commercial towers to affordable housing projects in California.
Copp is a project designer at Young & Ayata and led the international winning competition entry for an agriculture institute in South Korea, as well as the renovation of the Nolen Study Room in the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.