Annie Pedret

Associate Professor

pedret@uic.edu

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SMArchS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BArch, University of British Columbia
BSc, University of Toronto

Annie Pedret joined the faculty at the School of Architecture in 2007 to teach architectural history and theory. She came with experience as an architect in Vancouver, Toronto and Barcelona, and most recently as an Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has given papers at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, and conferences at the Politecnico de Milano, the Alvar Aalto Academy, has been invited to be a respondent at conferences at the Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania and be on design juries at MIT, RISD, Yale and Syracuse. Her writings have appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, and in publications Team 10 in search of a utopia of the present (NaI, 2005). Pedret is interested in the complex relationship between modernism and critical postmodern thinking. Her research has focused on the debates and reassessment of modern architecture after World War II and the contribution of this discourse to architecture culture in the United States and Europe, and contemporary practice. Her research methods have ranged from the analytical, in her systematic investigation of the published writings of Louis I. Kahn's theory of theory and design, silence and light, to the historical, as evidenced in her extensive archival research on the debates by Team 10 within CIAM in the 1950s. Pedret is currently working along more philosophical lines on the nature of the impulse that motivates us to think and act ethically, the first segment of which was published in the The Archeworks Papers (2007). Her work is based on an appreciation of nuance, complexity, and the premise that being critical of ones methods and the ontological frameworks in which one thinks are the basis of critical action, thinking, and research.