Molly Dalsin is an architect, educator, and researcher in Minneapolis and founder of Mesh Architecture.

With an initial interest in large-scale civic projects and the revolution of public space, Molly has now taken on an evolutionary practice consisting of multiple, smaller community interventions. These built works diversify the way we engage with our environment and with each other. Although she has worked on a myriad of building types, housing projects have become a priority. Beyond housing as a basic human right and a high-priority need, housing exhibits an exciting tension between ideas of privacy, escapism, and individuality, and those of community, cooperative living, and deeper human relationships. With a proclivity to understand financial and economic systems at play in real estate development, Molly brings years of experience leading complex design processes with multi-disciplinary teams to establish alternative modes of viable real estate development and their subsequent unique spatial opportunities.

Molly works to better understand the social impact of architecture beyond aesthetics and into effect through research, teaching, and built work. This intensity is balanced with the joy of time with family and friends, taking walks, traveling, reading fiction, lifting weights, playing music, and trying to figure out what "sigma" and "rizz" mean from her two young kids.

Teaching

ARCH 8253 Graduate Architectural Design 2

ARCH 3281: Architecture Studio 01: Material

ARCH 2301: Architectural Drawing and Critical Thinking

ARCH 5688 Built Environment Research Practices Colloquium