Sarah Whiting (architect)

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For the astronomer with the same name, see Sarah Frances Whiting.

Sarah Whiting is a design principal of WW Architecture and currently serves as an Assistant Professor and M.Arch thesis director at the Princeton University School of Architecture. She has previously taught at institutions such as Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Kentucky and the University of Florida.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton before going on to receive a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She had previously worked in the offices of Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, where she served as principal designer for the Euralille master plan.

Sarah Whiting has served on the editorial board of architectural journal Assemblage, and is currently one of the "protagonists" of Log.

Sarah Whiting teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses on modern urbanism and contemporary theory at Princeton, and has lectured and attended many conferences at prestigious institutions such as the Berlage Institute^[1], Columbia University and the Architectural Association^[2].

[edit] Notable bibliography

Whiting, Sarah. “Superblockism: Chicago’s Elastic Grid,” Histories of Cities: Design and Context, eds. Rodolphe el-Khoury and Edward Robbins (London: Spon/Routledge, 2004): 57-76.
Whiting, Sarah. “Bas-Relief Urbanism: Chicago’s Figured Field,” in Phyllis Lambert, ed. Mies in America (CCA + Whitney Museum, 2001): 642-691.
Somol, R.E. and Whiting, Sarah. "Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism." Perspecta 33 (2002): 72-77.
Koolhaas, Rem and Whiting, Sarah. "Spot Check: A Conversation between Rem Koolhaas and Sarah Whiting." Assemblage, No. 40, 36-55. Dec., 1999.
Whiting, Sarah. "Bellyache". Log 4, 5-8.
Whiting, Sarah. "Critical Reflections." Assemblage, No. 41, 88-89. Apr., 2000