Troy Conrad Therrien is currently a creative digital consultant for Bruce Mau Design and an independent architecture critic and designer. Supported by the J.B.C. Watkins Prize awarded by the Canadian Council for the Arts, his current research investigates uncertainty as a means to develop the historical relationship between numerical analysis, neo-colonialism and neo-avant-garde design and pedagogy in post-war Britain.

He holds a Master of the Arts degree from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, where he received the American Institute of Architects medal and certificate of merit, the Goodman scholarship from the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and a William Kinne traveling prize. He holds a BASc. in computer engineering from the University of British Columbia, where he was an Academic All-Canadian (football) and a National Science and Engineering Research Council Scholarship recipient for computational mathematics and human-computer interaction.

He has been published in the journals Hunch, Volume, San Rocco, and elsewhere, and has contributed to forthcoming books by Phaidon and the AA Press. He has designed and co-curated exhibitions in North America and Europe, including at P.S.1/MoMA and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He sits on the board of the Columbia University GSAPP Alumni Association.