Alexandra Quantrill

Alexandra Quantrill is a historian of architecture and the environment. Her scholarship concerns intersections between technology, aesthetics, energy, and political economy in the making of the built world. Her research on the history of electrification, feminism, modern design, and energy economy was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. She received the Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship for Writing on the Environment from MacDowell, as well as fellowships from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Getty Research Institute. Her publications in Architectural Theory Review, Grey Room, and the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians have concerned techniques of environmental management, the architecture of finance, and the aesthetics of technology. She has taught courses on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture at Cornell University, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, The New School – Parsons School of Design, and the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD in Architecture History and Theory from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Trained as an architect at the University of Texas at Austin, she practiced professionally in London and Barcelona.