1. Sarah M Whiting was born on 1964 and is an American architect, critic, and academic administrator.
13 Facts About Sarah Whiting
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Sarah Whiting previously served as Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture at Rice School of Architecture.
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Sarah Whiting "first explored architecture when her eighth grade teacher in Evanston, Illinois assigned students to choose a future career and write a report" and she choose to profile a local architect.
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Sarah Whiting attended Evanston Township High School, where she was part of the French Club and graduated in 1982.
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Sarah Whiting then attended Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in architectural, urban history, and theory.
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Sarah Whiting subsequently obtained a Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001.
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Sarah Whiting worked in the offices of Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, where she served as a designer on the Euralille master plan and assisted with the publication SMLXL.
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Sarah Whiting has taught at institutions such as Harvard University, Princeton University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Florida, where she led undergraduate and graduate level courses on modern urbanism and contemporary architectural theory.
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On July 1,2019, Sarah Whiting was named Dean and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Sarah Whiting became the first female dean in the school's history, and replaced Mohsen Mostafavi.
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Sarah Whiting notably contributed to the postcritical turn in architectural practice and discourse, often identified through her widely cited essay, co-authored with Robert Somol, "Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism," published by Yale's Perspecta journal in 2002.
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Sarah Whiting is married to Ron Witte, who is a co-founder of WW Architecture.
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Sarah Whiting's twin brother, Alex Whiting, who currently serves as Head of Investigations for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office, was an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School from 2007 to 2010 and a professor of practice at Harvard Law School from 2013 to 2019.