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Constance Vale

Constance Vale

Los Angeles, CA, US

 

About 

Constance is an architectural designer and partner in the research and design practice Vale Collins Studio, based in Los Angeles. The practice undertakes conceptual and aesthetic investigations with an interest in the relationship between art and architecture. Constance earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and her Master of Architecture from Yale School of Architecture, where she received the Moulton Andrus Award for Excellence in Art and Architecture and two Feldman Nominations. She is an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught design studios and courses in history and theory at SCI-Arc and design studio in the summer programs at UCLA and Parsons. She practiced for four years in New York City, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

Constance's Featured Articles on Archinect

Cross-Talk #2: Constance Vale on 'Pedagogy' Today, Fri, Jul 28 '17

Pedagogy is animated theory that transforms the discipline. It emerges from discussion, debate, and creation and involves the collaboration of instructors, students, and institutions. Essential to pedagogical development is the understanding that architecture is a cultural discipline, one that ...

Cross-Talk #2: Constance Vale on 'Pedagogy' Today
 

Employment 

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Assistant Professor

Jun 2017 - current
 

Vale Collins Studio, Los Angeles, CA, US, Partner

Aug 2014 - current
 

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA, US, Design Studio Faculty

Sep 2014 - May 2017
 

Yale University, New Haven, CT, US, Teaching Fellow

Sep 2012 - May 2014
 

Ennead Architects, New York, NY, US, Architectural Designer

Jun 2010 - Aug 2011
 

EDGE Studio, Pittsburgh, PA, US, Architectural Designer

Jun 2007 - Jun 2010
 

The New School, New York, NY, US, Teaching Assistant

Sep 2006 - Aug 2007
 

Education 

Yale University, New Haven, CT, US, MArch, Architecture

Sep 2011 - May 2014
 

The New School, New York, NY, US, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Sep 2003 - May 2007
 

Areas of Specialization