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Annette Fierro

Associate Professor of Architecture; Associate Department Chair
Architecture

fierroal@design.upenn.edu

Biography

B.S.C.E., M.Arch, Rice University

Teaches design studios and theory seminars on issues addressing technology within contemporary international architecture and urban culture. Her current research traces the network of legacies instigated by the radical technological speculation of the 1960s in London.

Annette recently authored The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle/Paris 1981–1998 (MIT Press, 2003), which focused on transparency and technology in François Mitterrand's Grands Projets. Has also published work on Japanese contemporary architecture.

Formerly in practice with Smith-Miller and Hawkinson Architects, New York; design work as project architect has appeared in various architectural journals, including Assemblage, Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, and Lotus.