Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is the Associate Chair of the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, where she teaches graduate level classes in the history and theory of architecture and is editor of the department journal Scapes. Merwood-Salisbury holds a PhD from Princeton University, a Master of Architecture from McGill University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Victoria University of Wellington in her native New Zealand. She has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bard College, Barnard and Columbia Colleges and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of “Western Architecture: Regionalism and Race in the Inland Architect,” in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, Katarina Ruedi-Ray and Charles Waldheim Eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), as well as articles in Design Issues, Grey Room, Lotus International, Chora: Intervals in Architecture and Philosophy and Architectural Lighting. Her book, Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper as Urban Solution will be published by the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2008.

Courses:
M.Arch Studio VI (Thesis)
Modern and Post-Modern Architecture
magining New York
Theory of Urban Form
Architecture, Interior Design, and Luxury
American Utopias
Architecture and Media