Constance Vale被任命为圣路易斯华盛顿大学山姆福克斯设计与视觉艺术学院本科建筑系主任。Vale 于 2017 年加入山姆福克斯学院担任助理教授，此前曾在SCI-Arc和加州大学洛杉矶分校任教。她是一名持牌建筑师，也是康斯坦斯维尔工作室以及实验研究办公室烟雾与镜子工厂的主管。

“在研究、实践和教学中，康斯坦斯研究了我们的美学和概念方法如何塑造和重塑我们看待世界的方式，”山姆福克斯学院的拉尔夫·J·内格尔院长卡蒙·科朗吉洛说。“作为一名模范合作者，她的作品介于建筑、艺术、戏剧和新兴技术之间。我们非常自豪地欢迎她担任这一领导职务。” Vale 接替了Igor Marjanović，后者最近被任命为莱斯大学莱斯大学的威廉·沃德·沃特金 (William Ward Watkin)建筑学院院长。

Vale 于 2007 年获得帕森斯设计学院的美术学士学位，并于 2014 年获得耶鲁大学建筑学院的建筑学硕士学位。在创办自己的工作室之前，Vale在匹兹堡的EDGE 工作室和纽约的Ennead Architecture实习。2015 年，她与 Emmett Zeifman 合作，为实验歌剧“跳房子”在洛杉矶市中心完成了一个临时展馆。

今年春天，Constance Vale Studio 被竞赛选中加入为 On Olive 设计住宅的国际公司，这是圣路易斯市中心的现代住宅开发项目。这个占地 3.5 英亩的项目由 Emily Rauh Pulitzer 和 Steve Trampe 的 Owen Development 领导，总体规划由Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO 负责。其他参与的公司包括MOS Architecture、Höweler + Yoon、Michael Maltzan Studio、Marcias Peredo、Productora Architects和Atelier Cory Henry，以及圣路易斯的 Michael Benz Architects 和Mitchell-Wall Architecture。

淡水河谷烟镜工厂目前正与该大学麦凯尔维工程学院计算机科学副教授 Yevgeniy Vorobeychik 合作，创建一个 1:8 比例的物理测试平台，以提高自动驾驶汽车的安全性并推测它们在城市中实施的潜在建筑影响。今年早些时候，淡水河谷为该大学 Mildred Lane Kemper 艺术博物馆的教学画廊策划了一个相关的展览，“移动的自主未来”。

Vale 与 Marcelo Spina 和 Georgina Huljich 是格雷厄姆基金会支持的著作“建筑中的静音图标和其他真实二分法”（2021 年）的编辑和合著者。Vale 于 2019 年秋季为 Sam Fox 学校开发的研讨会“诱饵和描述：数字图像”建立在这项研究的基础上。Vale 是 2021 年秋季 MacDowell Fellowship 的获得者，她将利用她的居住地工作，根据“诱饵和描述”中提出的想法撰写出版物。

“通过‘诱饵和描绘’，康斯坦斯将来自全国各地的教师和学者聚集在一起，探索数字图像作为形式生产、构建组件和发现机制的工具，为建筑师和艺术家提供社会和政治变革的新受众，”山姆福克斯学院建筑学院和建筑与城市设计研究生院院长 Heather Woofter说。“这种严谨的探究和多学科的精神体现了康斯坦斯的工作，它与我们的建筑学本科生完美契合——充满希望、精力充沛并致力于人性化设计的未来。”

Vale 的作品曾在 A+D 博物馆、谢尔顿艺术画廊和法雷尔学习与教学中心等地展出。她的作品发表在《美国建筑师学会杂志》、《洛杉矶时报》、Archinect 和 CLOG 上。

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Constance Vale has been named chair of undergraduate architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Vale, who joined the Sam Fox School as an assistant professor in 2017, previously taught at SCI-Arc and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a licensed architect and director of the architectural practice Constance Vale Studio as well as the experimental research office The Factory of Smoke & Mirrors.

“In research, practice, and teaching, Constance investigates how our aesthetic and conceptual approaches shape and reshape the ways we see the world,” said Carmon Colangelo, the Ralph J. Nagel Dean of the Sam Fox School. “An exemplary collaborator, her work inhabits the space between architecture, art, theater and emerging technology. We are extremely proud to welcome her to this leadership role.” Vale succeeds Igor Marjanović, who recently was appointed the William Ward Watkin Dean of Rice Architecture at Rice University.

Vale earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 2007 from Parsons School of Design and a master’s in architecture in 2014 from the Yale School of Architecture. Before launching her own studio, Vale practiced at EDGE Studio in Pittsburgh and Ennead Architecture in New York. In 2015, she collaborated with Emmett Zeifman to complete a temporary pavilion in downtown Los Angeles for the experimental opera “Hopscotch.”

This spring, Constance Vale Studio was selected by competition to join an international array of firms designing residences for On Olive, the contemporary housing development in midtown St. Louis. The 3.5-acre project is led by Emily Rauh Pulitzer and by Steve Trampe’s Owen Development, with a master plan by Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO. Other participating firms include MOS Architecture, Höweler + Yoon, Michael Maltzan Studio, Marcias Peredo, Productora Architects, and Atelier Cory Henry, as well as St. Louis’ Michael Benz Architects and Mitchell-Wall Architecture.

Vale’s Factory of Smoke & Mirrors currently is collaborating with Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, associate professor of computer science at the university’s McKelvey School of Engineering, to create a 1:8 scale physical-testing platform for improving the safety of self-driving vehicles and speculating on the potential architectural impact of their implementation in cities. Earlier this year, Vale curated a related exhibition, “The Autonomous Future of Mobility,” for the Teaching Gallery at the university’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Vale is editor and co-author, with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, of the Graham Foundation-supported book “Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture” (2021). The symposium “Decoys and Depictions: Images of the Digital,” which Vale developed for the Sam Fox School in Fall 2019, built upon this research. Vale is the recipient of a Fall 2021 MacDowell Fellowship, and will be using her residency to work on a publication drawing on the ideas developed in “Decoys and Depictions.”

“With ‘Decoys and Depictions,’ Constance brought together faculty and scholars from across the country to explore digital images as vehicles for the production of form, building components and mechanisms of discovery that provide architects and artists new audiences for social and political change,” said Heather Woofter, director of the Sam Fox School’s College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. “That rigor of inquiry and multidisciplinary ethos exemplify Constance’s work, which beautifully aligns with our undergraduate architecture students — hopeful, energetic and committed to humane design futures.”

Vale’s work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum, The Sheldon Art Galleries, and the Farrell Learning & Teaching Center, among others. Her work has been published in The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, the Los Angeles Times, Archinect, and CLOG.