Join the Center for the Living City for a 2022 Jane Jacobs Lecture with Marcia Feuerstein, Jodi La Coe, and Paola Zellner Bassett, co-authors of a forthcoming book Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe in which they portray forty, beautiful and diverse architectural projects. For this presentation and discussion, they will showcase several of these award-winning urban interventions.
Space is limited but the event will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel afterwards.
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Panelists
MARCIA FEUERSTEIN
Marcia Feuerstein is an architect and professor, exploring architecture through the body, embodiment, performance, theater and reuse by investigating these links within theory and practice through books, essays, installations and design projects. She has practiced architecture in New York City, Buffalo, Philadelphia and the DC area. Feuerstein’s publications include contributions to journals and edited volumes: Routledge Companion to Drawings and Models (in press); Ceilings and Dreams; Body and Building; Architecture as a Performing Art; and Changing Places. An Associate Professor at Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, she received a PhD and MS in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Architecture from the University at Buffalo, and a Bachelor of Science from Tufts University.
JODI LA COE
Jodi La Coe is an architect teaching at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania – the birthplace of Jane (Butzner) Jacobs whose work inspired her students to win First Prize in the Attached Housing division of the 2021 US Solar Decathlon Design Challenge with the Electric Jane, affordable, net-zero energy homes. With a dissertation exploring the synaesthetic perception of spatial relationships, she earned a PhD in Architecture and Design Research from the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, an urban extension of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture and Design. Her recent and forthcoming publications are included in Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity, Theatres of Architectural Imagination, and Remote Practices: Architecture in Proximity.
PAOLA ZELLNER BASSETT
Paola Zellner Bassett graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires and practiced architecture in Argentina and Uruguay. She obtained a Master’s degree from SCI-Arc, practiced in Los Angeles with Norman R. Millar Architects, and together with Jim Bassett started Zellner + Bassett. She is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA). Her creative work with the IAWA includes the installation “30 x 30,” shown internationally, and for which she received the 2018–19 ACSA Creative Achievement Award. Her scholarship has been published in Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibition, the Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and Bitácora Arquitectura #33.
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