Roberta M. Feldman

Roberta Feldman has a doctorate in psychology, is an architect, an educator, and Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago.^[1] She is based in Chicago. She has served on numerous boards including the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Environmental Design Research Association, National Public Housing Museum and co-author of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Public Housing with Susan Stall.^[2]

Biography

Feldman attended Smith College and Columbia University for her undergraduate education. She received a Master and Doctorate in Psychology in the Environmental Psychology Program from the City University of New York. She has spent her academic career at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work is invested in design as a right for a just and sustainable world. She was co-founder of the City Design Center at UIC in 1994.^[3] The interdisciplinary center encompassed research, design and community engagement. Working with nonprofit agencies and community partners, the Community Design Center was a publicly engaged design center. Her work with communities is based on a methodological approach of participatory design and action research. She has served in various administrative capacities across the university including Director of Architecture Graduate Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She has been the recipient of the Latrobe Prize with Sergio Palleroni, David Perkes, and Bryan Bell and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award with Charles Leek.

Awards

• Environmental Design Research Association Career Award, 2014^[4]
• Latrobe Prize, 2011^[5]
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, 2007-2008^[6]

Selected publications

• Feldman, Roberta A. (2013). "Social Justice Through Historic Preservation". Architectural Encounters: Historic Preservation and People’s History (book chapter). Jane Adams Hull Museum.
• Feldman, Roberta M.; Kim, Jieun (2012). "Residential Autobiographies". In Carswell, Andrew T. The Encyclopedia of Housing (book chapter) (Second ed.). Sage.
• Feldman, Roberta M. (2011). "Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community/University Partnerships to Contest Chicago’s HOPE VI Progra". In Sutton, Sharon E.; Kemp, Susan P. The Paradox of Urban Space: Inequity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities (book chapter). Palgrave MacMillian.
• Feldman, Roberta M.; Wheaton, James (2007). The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale. Univ of IL Chicago City Design Center. ISBN 978-0-9789650-0-6.
• Radford-Hill], Roberta M. Feldman, Susan Stall ; [foreword by Sheila (2007). The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing (1st pbk. ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59686-2.
• Feldman, Robert M.; Stall, Susan (2006). The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Public Housing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59686-2.

References

1. "Professor Emerita". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
2. Feldman, Roberta; Susan, Stall (2006). The Dignity of Resistance Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521596862.
3. "City Design Center". City Design Center University Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
4. "Roberta M. Feldman Wins 2014 Career Award". The Environmental Design Research Association. EDRA. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
5. "2011 Latrobe Prize for "Public Interest Practices in Architecture" Report now Available". American Institute of Architects. AIA. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
6. "Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, 2007-2008". Retrieved 14 November 2015.

External links

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/people/roberta-feldman