Julia Spackman is committed to making smart, simple, and meaningful architecture. She designs new life for old buildings, and thinks, writes, exhibits, and teaches about it. Her graduate thesis, A Polyphonic Archipelago along the Faulted California Coast, proposes architectural interventions to reveal and enliven the agricultural, ecological, and geological histories present at White Point in San Pedro, California.

Julia's architectural work centers on the transformation of existing structures. She has transformed existing buildings for future use in America and Europe, at large and small firms, and notably across differing legislative frameworks. Currently she is based in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in the region of Galicia. Here she works with Pritzker Prize-winning David Chipperfield Architects. She executed all phases of architectural design with Gensler for the city block-sized historic California Market Center originally by Gruen Associates, architect Norma Merrick Sklarek. Its two million square feet became a mixed-use combination of fashion mart, creative office, retail, and restaurant. In Zürich she developed the successful competition of converting the existing Badenerstrasse high-rise by Stücheli Architects into residences with the EM2N team.

Julia contributes original essays and edits architectural texts. As Editor-In-Chief of Pairs, she stewarded the journal of conversations pairing design professionals with objects from the Harvard Archives. Julia is contributor to The Longhouse (DOGMA, Black Square Forthcoming), Unterbau City (Harvard GSD 2022), Not interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Andrew Atwood, Applied Research & Design 2018), and Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Patterns, Actar 2021).

Julia designs exhibitions and collaborated on the following shows: The Longhouse, Home Sweet Home, Triennale Milano and Toronto Metropolitan University; Backwards Twice, GSD's Quotes Gallery; Pool North, Dark Mode, A+D Museum; Josephine, Strawberry, and Wilson, Make New History, Chicago Biennial.

She teaches architecture studio sections at the graduate and highschool levels. She has instructed incoming Masters of Architecture students at Harvard, Design Discovery, and a for-credit course for students at USC Hybrid High. Julia serves on final design reviews at Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Southern California School of Architecture, Boston Architectural College, and Northeastern University College of Arts Media and Design.

Julia received her Masters of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelors of Arts from University of California, Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.