Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellow 2019-2021

Education

M.Arch, Princeton University, 2017
Ph.D., Cambridge University, 2011
AB/ScB, Brown University, 2005

Keywords

Historic preservation, intervention, history, old buildings, reuse, augmented reality, urban planning

Biography

Ryan Roark is the 2019-21 Ventulett NEXT Fellow at Georgia Tech School of Architecture. As an architectural designer and writer, she focuses on the role of history in building design and urban planning. She was a 2017 KPF Paul Katz Fellow in London, where she studied different typologies of design interventions in old buildings and the attitudes to history they represent. Her NEXT Fellowship research and design work at Georgia Tech will continue this formal, tectonic, and historical investigation as well as examining the role augmented and mixed reality will play in the design of the 21st-century city.

Alongside teaching and design, Ryan writes about the history of historic preservation, the relationship between individual and city from the 16th century through the present, and the history of intellectual cross-pollination between microbiology and architecture. She has forthcoming book chapters on John Ruskin, London’s early modern gardens, and microbial and cellular landscape photography, as well as a forthcoming translation of the 16th-century novel La Mariane du Filomène.

Ryan has previously taught as a studio critic at Rice University and has worked at architecture firms in New York and Los Angeles, including LTL Architects and First Office. She has an M.Arch from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Oncology from Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

Link

www.roarkitecture.com