Louise Harpman is
a partner at Specht Harpman, an architecture
and design firm with offices in New York
City and Austin, Texas. She maintains a commitment
to practice and teaching and is currently
serving as Associate Dean for Undergraduate
Programs at the University of Texas at
Austin, where she is also the Harwell
Hamilton Professor of Architecture. Before
joining the UT faculty, she taught for
eight years at the Yale School of Architecture
and for four years at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Louise Harpman received her Bachelor
of Arts degree from Harvard University,
where she concentrated in East Asian
Studies. She holds a Master of Philosophy
degree from Cambridge University and
received her Master of Architecture degree
from Yale University. She
is the co-editor of
Perspecta 30:Settlement
Patterns (1999). She is the author
of the
Brooklyn
Public Library Design Guidelines and was a founding
member (ex officio) of the Board of Directors
of the Design Trust for Public Space.
