Ann Pendleton-­Jullian is an architect, educator, and writer of international standing. Her design work negotiates the overlap between architecture, landscape, culture, and technology and is motivated towards internationalism as both a concept and a reality. Ann took up architecture after a brief but serious attempt to adopt astrophysics as a career choice.

Ann obtained her BArch degree from Cornell University and her MArch from Princeton. She began her professional apprenticeship in Chicago, and in the mid eighties opened her first professional office in Los Angeles. After three years in practice there, she returned to the east coast to establish a partnership with Guilllaume Jullian de la Fuente from 1986 – 1996. Back on the east coast, she also began teaching at Cornell University, Princeton University, and then later at MIT for fourteen years.

Currently Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, Ann’s most recent work has focused on furthering the use of game design as a way to approach complex and emergent systems within architectural, urban and landscape design, both theoretically and in practice. And seeing education as its own design problem, she is also involved in thinking and writing about education for the 21st century, in practice.

Ann maintains ongoing working affiliations with the MIT Media Lab, the School of Architecture at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile, The University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tongji University in Shanghai, the New University of Singapore, and the London School of Economics.