Deborah Berke

Deborah Berke
Born 1954
Occupation Architect
Awards Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize
Practice Deborah Berke & Partners Architects
Yale School of Architecture

Deborah Berke (born 1954) is an American architect and academic. She is the founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, a New York City-based design firm. Burke has served as an adjunct professor of architectural design at Yale University since 1987, and as of July 2016 she became the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, making her the first woman to head the university's School of Architecture.[1]

Life

Berke received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has a bachelor's degree in both fine art and architecture. She received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2005.[2]

In 2012, she became the first Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize laureate.[3]

Selected works

References

  1. McDonald, Amy Athey (25 September 2015). "Architect Deborah Berke to be next dean of Yale School of Architecture". Yale News. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. McKeough, Tim (25 September 2015). "Deborah Berke Named Dean of the Yale School of Architecture". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. Walter, Alexander (11 September 2012). "New York Architect Deborah Berke Selected for Berkeley-Rupp Prize". archinect.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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