Sharon Johnston is an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and architecture critic. She is a founding partner of the firm

Johnston Marklee & Associates Johnston Marklee & Associates, is an architecture firm in Los Angeles, California founded by Sharon Johnston and her husband Mark Lee in 1998. They are known for their "subtle" and "quietly innovative" approach to modern design. The firm was l ...

based in Los Angeles. Johnston has taught at a number of universities including

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, and has held the Cullinan Chair at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. In 2015, Johnston was named a

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for her contributions to the field.

Education

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...

Master of Architecture 1995 *

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Bachelor of History

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty Princeton University faculty UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty Rice University faculty Academic staff of the University of Toronto Stanford University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni American women architects {{US-architect-stub