Roberta M. Feldman

Roberta Feldman is an architect and educator, who holds the title of Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago.[1] She is based in Chicago. Her work is invested in design as a right for a just and sustainable world.

Biography

Feldman attended Smith College and Columbia University for her undergraduate education. She received a Master and Doctorate in Psychology in the Environmental Psychology Program from the City University of New York.

Career

She has spent her academic career at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was co-founder of the City Design Center at UIC in 1994, [2] an interdisciplinary center that encompasses research, design and community engagement. Working with nonprofit agencies and community partners, the Community Design Center was a publicly engaged design center. .Her work with communities is based on a methodological approach of participatory design and action research. . In her university, she has served as Director of Architecture Graduate Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

She has served on the boards of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Environmental Design Research Association, and the National Public Housing Museum.

Awards
  • Environmental Design Research Association Career Award, 2014[3]
  • Latrobe Prize with Sergio Palleroni, David Perkes, and Bryan Bell and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award with Charles Leek. 2011[4]
  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, 2007-2008[5]

Selected publications
  • co-author of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Public Housing with Susan Stall
  • Feldman, Roberta A. (2013). "Social Justice Through Historic Preservation". Architectural Encounters: Historic Preservation and People’s History. Jane Adams Hull Museum.
  • Feldman, Roberta M.; Kim, Jieun (2012). "Residential Autobiographies". In Carswell, Andrew T. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Housing (Second ed.). Sage.
  • Feldman, Roberta M. (2011). "Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community/University Partnerships to Contest Chicago's HOPE VI Progra". In Sutton, Sharon E.; Kemp, Susan P. (eds.). The Paradox of Urban Space: Inequity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Feldman, Roberta M.; Wheaton, James (2007). The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale. University of IL Chicago City Design Center. ISBN 978-0-9789650-0-6.
  • Feldman, Robert M.; Stall, Susan (2006). The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Public Housing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59686-2. .[6]

References
  1. "Professor Emerita". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  2. "City Design Center". City Design Center University Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  3. "Roberta M. Feldman Wins 2014 Career Award". The Environmental Design Research Association. EDRA. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. "2011 Latrobe Prize for "Public Interest Practices in Architecture" Report now Available". American Institute of Architects. AIA. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  5. "Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, 2007-2008". Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  6. Feldman, Roberta; Susan, Stall (2006). The Dignity of Resistance Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521596862.

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/people/roberta-feldman

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