Joshua Budiongan, RA, NOMA

Joshua Budiongan is a Senior Architect + Project Director at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), where he works on neighborhood resiliency, community planning and design projects in communities across Detroit. From 2015 through 2017 he served Jefferson East, Inc. (JEI) as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow. There, he helped initiate JEI’s neighborhood based development activity and planning and design efforts across lower east side neighborhoods of Detroit. He is an adjunct architectural studio professor at the Detroit Mercy School of Architecture & Community Development (SACD), where he earned his M.Arch. Josh works on the board of directors for the Association for Community Design, as board secretary for Bleeding Heart Design, and a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University. Outside of community design, architecture and activism, Josh is a musician, record collector and enjoys cycling and being in touch with nature.

contact: budionjr@udmercy.edu