Clayton Strange is founder and principal of Strange Works Studio, a U.S. Registered Architect, and is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives (ARD Publishing 2019), which examines the development and transnational legacy of the Soviet single-industry town and was awarded the 2020 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for significant contributions to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape studies. Previously he was a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at Lebanese American University School of Architecture and Design.

Clayton has professional experience on award-winning projects in Brazil, China, Canada, the USA, and South Korea at such firms as Safdie Architects (Boston), Somatic Collaborative (New York) and IROJE Architects + Planners (Seoul). His design work has been featured on archdaily and in academic publications at Harvard. He has lectured at professional and academic venues around the world including the Birla Institute for the Indian Institute of Architects, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard Graduate School of Design, IIT Kharagpur, Kent State University, the Moscow Living Cities Forum, Yale NUS College, and Zhejiang University. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University School of Architecture and Master of Architecture in Urban Design with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he was awarded the Druker Traveling Fellowship, the Award for Academic Excellence in Urban Design, and the Award for Design Excellence in Urban Design.