Biography

Lynnette Widder (BA Barnard College, 1985; March Columbia University, 1990; PhD, University of Zurich, in progress) is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has also taught at Columbia University, Cornell University, the ETH Zurich, Parsons School of Design, Cranbrook Academy, City College of New York and the University of British Columbia.

Her professional work with aardvarchitecture has been widely published. From 1994-98, she was editor of the bilingual architecture quarterly Daidalos, and recently authored Ira Rakatansky: As Modern as Tomorrow (William Stout, 2010), funded by a Graham Foundation institutional grant. She was co-curator of Berlin-New York Dialogues at the AIA Center for Architecture in New York and DAZ in Berlin. She is currently pursuing research on German-American architectural relations 1949-59 funded by the Graham Foundation; and on the use of bio-based composites in energy-efficient systems integrated building envelope, which has been presented at conferences in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland and Finland.

Lynnette Widder

Associate Professor
lwidder@risd.edu
401-454-6281

• BA, Barnard College, Columbia University
• MARCH, Columbia University
• BA, Columbia University

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