Pratt Institute

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Education

B.A. Brown University
M.A. Princeton University School of Architecture
Ph.D. (in progress) Princeton University School of Architecture

Biography

Meredith teaches architectural history and theory at Pratt and coordinates the history and theory curriculum in the Undergraduate Architecture department.Her research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and in recent years has been focused on how architects use food as a means to rethink the media and politics of practice.

Recent publications include a book, Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall, with Rosten Woo and Damon Rich, a dissertation, “The Architecture of the Market: Food, Media and Biopolitics from Les Halles to Rungis” at the School of Architecture, Princeton University, about the design of food distribution systems in postwar France, as well as articles and book chapters about markets, food, biopolitics, and urbanism.

Meredith is the chair of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, a group devoted to advancing scholarship in architectural theory and history in an interdisciplinary context. She also organizes occasional lectures, dinners, a library, and a community supported agriculture program at the Metropolitan Exchange and other venues in New York.Prior to focusing on architectural research, Meredith made films, videos and installations about the politics of urban and technological transformations, studied philosophy and media theory in Paris, and worked for ten years as a software architect, database and interface designer.