Profile

Dawn Finley combines professional practice with academic research. She is an Assistant Professor at Rice School of Architecture and she is a principal of Interloop A/D, an architecture and design offce in Houston, Texas. Her teaching includes graduate and undergraduate studios with a focus on working and learning environments, healthcare policies and infrastructures, and design for aging Americans. She also co-teaches a graduate course on digital visualization and communication. Her writings and design work have been published in journals and newspapers including: the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Log5, ID Magazine, Perspecta 34 and 38, Architectural Record, and Architecture.

Her research and design work includes: KlipHouse, a service based housing platform developed for mass production, Forty-Eight Foot House, a private residence in Houston, Plug-On, the frst in a series of residential product prototypes, Polara 7, a suite of custom designed and fabricated furniture pieces, Julia's, a Latin bistro and bar with graphic identity package, 1AB Stim, a site specifc interactive installation for the First Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, E-X-I-T, a custom exit light for the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, and Tending(Blue), a new building collaboration with artist James Turrell, commissioned by the Nasher Foundation in Dallas, Texas. In 2001, her offce was commis- sioned by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa, to be the Associate Architects for the Nasher Sculpture Center. In 2001 she organized and designed an exhibit of Interloop A/D's work for the Aluminum in Con-temporary Architecture exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2000, she worked with Droog Design and her product prototype, Do Post, was exhibited at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam and the Milan Furniture Fair.