Tegan Behel

Tegan Behel (neé Tegan Bukowski) is a multimedia fine artist who works in architecture, industrial design, ceramics and film.  She has contributed to projects as large as the urban space of Dubai, skyscrapers in Taiwan, concert halls in France, but over time found that she finds the most delight in the human scale. For clients, she has designed sex toys, dishes that are sold in Harrods, a hydrofoil surfboard inspired by stealth jets, and numerous lines of homewares. Her personal work often focuses on storytelling through narrative writing, film, poetry, and ceramics. 

Tegan has a Masters Degree from the Yale School of Architecture, and apprenticed with Zaha Hadid in London.

Select Films

Life in a Day by Ridley Scott, Feature Film, Field Director

The Essentials, Narrative Short, Producer and Production Designer

26,000 Days, Executive Producer

Hodinkee Watch Air Land Sea, Producer

Family Dinner, Writer, Production Designer, Executive Producer (in production)

Select Exhibitions & Publications

• NYTimes Op Ed “More than a Female Architect”

• Time Magazine (Otra Nation)

• Mother Jones (Otra Nation)

• Rome Continuity and Change 2012, Yale University, Publication and Exhibition

Leroy Street Studio Architects - Architectural Designer 2013-2014

Zaha Hadid Architects - Architectural Designer, 2014-2018

Studio Bu - Founder, Industrial Designer, 2017-2020

Select Industrial Design Clients & Collaborators:

FOIL Surfboards
Hokan Bowls
Atelier Swarovski 
Peter Pillotto
Adessa Sex Toys
Burner Yurts
Alkemie Road

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Washington University In St Louis, Sam Fox School

• Named the Outstanding Graduate of 2010, Architecture

• Gephardt Institute Fellow

• AIA Honor Education Award (Florence Studio)

M.Arch Yale University

• Peter Eisenman Studio (Feldman Nominee)

• Drawing Teaching Fellow

• Fabrication Lab Fellow

• Zaha Hadid Studio

• Rome Fellow (Yale Fellow in partnership with the American Academy in Rome)