Sean Nakamura Dolan is an architectural designer and researcher with an interest in thermal material temporality and perception. He holds a Master of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BA in Architecture at UC Berkeley with Highest Honors. He was a Dean's Merit Scholar at the GSD and has received the Eisner Prize in Architecture, and twice received the Raymond Watson Best Project Prize. 

He was an instructor and taught a studio at Harvard GSD's design discovery program and has also held monthly lectures and workshops at a general contractor firm in Japan. He has practiced and researched with offices including Kengo Kuma and Associates, Milliøns, IwamotoScott Architecture, Mohsen Mostafavi, and Alex Spatzier Architects.