Associate Professor of Architecture and Women's and Gender Studies
About
Mireille Roddier is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on urban representation through the lens of class and gender. Since exploring the architecture of working-class women's civic spaces in Lavoirs: Washhouses of Rural France (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), she has studied the traces of modernization and its discontent onto the contemporary city, with a heavy focus on Paris and Detroit. Borrowing criticism developed in other fields (performance, photography, ethnography), and informed by interdisciplinary fellowships (Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry), her work currently centers on the relationship between urban narratives, the production of the public realm, belonging, and appropriation. She has published essays in Places Journal, The Architectural Review, Volume Magazine, MONU, and New Writing, and regularly lectures on women’s representation of cities, on the aestheticization of urban decay, and on the politics of preservation.
Her ongoing interest in the mechanisms and politics of representation has also fueled her design work. The projects of Mitnick-Roddier, her shared practice with Associate Professor of Architecture K. Mitnick, have received numerous awards, including the Architecture League of New York’s Young Architects Prize and Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, and been widely published and exhibited (Log, Mark Magazine, Architecture Record, Storefront for Art & Architecture, SFMoMA, etc).
