Jennifer Bloomer

A.B. (Art History), Mount Holyoke
M.Arch., Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.
Associate Professor
Design, history and theories of architecture and culture
She is an architectural theorist who is widely known for her work on the relations of architecture and writing. Author of Architecture and the Text: the (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi (Yale University Press, 1993, paperback1995), she currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture and Architecture New York (ANY). A Trustee of the Architecture Research Institute in New York City, she has been a Fellow of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism and was selected to give the 1992 Annual Discourse to the Royal Institute of British Architects. Recently, she served on the 1994 Awards Jury of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter. She is currently working on a book about the materiality of architecture, tentatively titled The Matter of Matter: Architecture in the Age of Dematerialization.
jbloomer@iastate.edu