Alexandra Quantrill

Alexandra Quantrill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where she directs the thesis for the Masters program in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She holds a PhD in Architecture History and Theory from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Alexandra’s scholarship concerns intersections between technology and aesthetics throughout processes of design and construction. She is currently completing a book manuscript on techniques of architectural enclosure and environmental management in postwar spaces of labor. Her next research project will explore the relationship between feminism, electricity, and modernism. Alexandra has published in Grey Room and the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians. She has also taught at The University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, and the University of Texas at Austin. Trained as an architect at UT Austin, she has practiced professionally in London and Barcelona.