The built environment affects everyone; yet criticism continues to be a niche field, suffering through layoffs after crises, followed by more layoffs. Anjulie Rao, a Chicago-based journalist and built environment critic, discusses the need for design criticism that expands past buildings to connect with ideas, politics, and processes that infuse meaning and imagination into the places we inhabit.
This lecture is sponsored by Marywood University’s School of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Anjulie rao
Anjulie Rao is a journalist and critic covering the built environment. Based in Chicago, much of her work reckons with the complexities of post-industrial cities; explores connections to place and land; and exposes intersections between architecture, landscapes, and cultural change. She is the founder and editor of Weathered, a publication focused on cities and landscapes in the wintertime.
Anjulie is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Architecture/Interior Architecture and New Arts Journalism departments, and an Adjunct faculty member at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a columnist at ARCHITECT magazine, and her bylines can be found in The Architect's Newspaper, Landscape Architecture Magazine, The Architectural Review, The New York Review of Architecture, among others.
