Rate My Professor Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Pendleton-Jullian’s research interests center on the interplay of architecture, landscape, culture, science, and technology in complex global contexts, emphasizing design for emergence, empowerment, and economic development. Key projects include a house for astronomer Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, an eight-village ecosystem for rural craft tourism in Guizhou Province, China, a new Jesuit university in Eastern Africa, and the reimagining of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has earned awards for prototypical bioclimatic houses, such as one in Tenerife, and competition successes like the New Congress Hall in Valparaíso, Chile, and the Miguelete River basin urban design in Montevideo. Major publications feature The Road That Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile (MIT Press, 1996), Games for Shanghai (CA Press, 2008), Design Education and Innovation Ecotones (2009), and Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (with John Seely Brown, MIT Press, 2018). A TEDx speaker and participant in Aspen Institute roundtables and the Highlands Forums Group, her work has been widely exhibited and lectured internationally across North America, South America, and Asia.