Catherine Ingraham is a professor of

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in the graduate architecture program at

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, a program for which she was chair from 1999 to 2005.

Biography

Ingraham was born to Gordon Ingraham and

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. Ingraham was raised in

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and earned her doctorate at

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. Ingraham has held academic appointments at the

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and

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and been a visiting professor at

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, the

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, and

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, before joining Pratt as chair in 1999. She is married, with one son, and is one of eight great-granddaughters of

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Publications and editing

Ingraham is the author of ''Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition'' (Routledge 2006), ''Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity'' (Yale University Press 1998), and was co-editor of ''Restructuring Architectural Theory'' (Northwestern University Press 1986). From 1991-98, Ingraham was an editor, with Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, of '' Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture''. Dr. Ingraham has published extensively in

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s and book collections and lectured at architecture schools nationally and internationally. Throughout her career, she has organized and participated in symposia that advance serious discussions about architecture; in February 2008, she ran a conference at

on animate life and form entitled "Part Animal."

Design

In 2001, Ingraham was the winner, with architect Laurie Hawkinso, of a design competition and building commission for the Museum of Women's History in New York.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingraham, Catherine Living people Johns Hopkins University alumni American women academics Pratt Institute faculty Place of birth missing (living people) Iowa State University faculty University of Illinois Chicago faculty American women architects 20th-century births Year of birth missing (living people) Frank Lloyd Wright