Catherine Ingraham is a Professor of Architecture

Architecture

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 in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

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 in New York City

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, a program for which she was chair from 1999-2005.

Biography

Ingraham earned her doctorate at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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. Ingraham has held academic appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

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 and Iowa State University

Iowa State University

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 and been a visiting professor at Princeton

Princeton University

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, the GSD

Harvard Graduate School of Design

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, and Columbia University, before joining Pratt as chair in 1999.

She is married, with one son, and is one of eight, or possibly nine, great-granddaughters of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Publications and editing

Ingraham is the author of Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition (Routledge 2006), Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity (Yale University Press 1998), and was co-editor of Restructuring Architectural Theory (Northwestern University Press 1986). From 1991-98, Ingraham was an editor, with Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, of Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture

Assemblage (journal)

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. Dr. Ingraham has published extensively in academic journal

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s and book collections and lectured at architecture schools nationally and internationally. Throughout her career, she has organized and participated in symposia that advance serious discussions about architecture; in February 2008, she ran a conference at Columbia University

Columbia University

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on animate life and form entitled "Part Animal."

Design

In 2001, Ingraham was the winner, with architect Laurie Hawkinson, of a design competition and building commission for the Museum of Women's History in New York.