Professor, Director
Director, School of Art
Ph.D., University of London, UK, Architecture, 1998
MS, University of London, UK, History, Mondern Architecture, 1991
AA, Architectural Association, London, UK, 1986
BS, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art/University of Dundee, UK, Architecture, 1978
AREAS OF RESEARCH/ARTISTIC FOCUS:
Research
History of design education and practice; architecture and identity politics; Chicago architecture; African American women architects; public art; art and economic development
Creative work
Re-using ready-made forms and situations in art, design and architecture
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Selected publications:
Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary (1996), Desiring Practices: Artists and Architects (1996, both by Black Dog Publishing);
The Dissertation: An Architecture Student's Handbook (2000), The Portfolio: An Architecture Student's Handbook (2003), and Practical Experience: An Architecture Student's Guide to Internship/Year Out (2004, all by Architectural Press);
Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Under review: Bauhaus Dream-house: Identity Formation in Modernist Design Education (Routledge), and 133 and Rising: African American Women Architects (Howard University Press).
Chicago: Ten Visions (with Marjanovic, I.,/Readymade Studio), Art Institute of Chicago 2004;
A Horticultural Center in the Grounds of Prague Castle (with S.T.S Bates Architects), Prague, Czech Republic, 1997;
Atlas of the City (with Crysler, G., Hill, J.,) Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (1997);
Extension to the Prado Museum (with S.T.S Bates Architects), Spanish National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid, Spain, 1996
Staff member at BGSU since 2002.