Michael Ezban is an architect, landscape designer, and scholar. His work explores multispecies urbanism, and the design of landscapes and buildings that entangle humans and other animals. Published and exhibited internationally, Ezban’s writing and design research has focused on aquaculture landscapes, waterfowl hunting grounds, and equestrian facilities. He is a recipient of the Maeder-York Family Fellowship in Landscape Architecture from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and most recently the 2020 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Ezban is Assistant Director of the Graduate Architecture Program, and Clinical Assistant Professor, at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation. He teaches courses on the design and analysis of buildings, landscapes, and urbanism, with an emphasis on multispecies relations within socio-ecological urban systems. Prior to this he taught in graduate landscape architecture programs; he served as an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Virginia Tech.