Jonathan Kline

Jonathan Kline is an associate studio professor and principal and founder of Studio for Spatial Practice. Through over a decade of teaching and research at Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan has explored the future of cities with a generation of students. Since 2002 Kline has taught upper-level undergraduate urban design studios, building on the public interest legacy of David Lewis who initiated urban design education at Carnegie Mellon in the 1960s. Kline is a core faculty member in the Master of Urban Design program and helped shape its curriculum and launch the program. In recent years his studio teaching has focused on growing global cities through graduate and undergraduate urban design studios that have traveled to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. He has also taught second-year design studio, undergraduate thesis and seminars in urban design theory. Kline has also worked on research projects at the Remaking Cities Institute and the Studio for Creative Inquiry.