Skylar Perez is a Mexican-American artist, researcher, and designer based in Lubbock, Texas, whose work explores the intersection of living systems, land use, and biodesign. Rooted in the semi-arid landscapes of the Llano Estacado, his practice investigates how soil and microbes can reframe the future of humanity through architecture and ecology, revealing the ground as both an archive of environmental memory and a living participant in shaping the earth.
Working with natural materials, local soils, and microbial processes, he imagines new forms of material intelligence that bridge architecture, biology, and technology. His research and installations envision responsive infrastructures that grow in rhythm with their environments, inviting more-than-human modes of care. His work gives voice to the unseen, the living networks of plants, microbes, and soils that compose the conditions for human life.
Currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University, Perez teaches and researches within the realms of biodesign, soil care, and plant–soil science. His work continues to advance a vision of design as a regenerative system, where the built environment operates in dialogue with the biological and geological processes that sustain life on Earth.
