Keller Easterling is Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University, and is an architect, urbanist, and writer.
She studied architecture at Princeton University and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.
Her recent books include Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (2005) which researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world; and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, where network theory is applied to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats.
Keller Easterling is also the author of Call It Home, a laser disc history of suburbia; and American Town Plans. She has recently completed two research installations on the Web: Wildcards: A Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. Her work has been widely published in journals such as Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, and Harvard Design Magazine.
Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, the Architectural League, the Municipal Arts Society, and the Wexner Center.
She presented the case study “Subtraction” in the workshop Mine the city - With logistics to circular metabolisms at the 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City and was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for North America in 2011.
[last updated 19-Jul-11]