Faculty Biography

Sharon E. Sutton
Ph.D., FAIA

Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning,
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Social Work
Director, Center for Environment, Education, and Design Studies

208P Gould Hall, Box 355720
College of Architecture & Urban Planning
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-5720
206-685-3361
206-383-6052
206-616-4992 (FAX))
sesut@u.washington.edu

I have been an architecture educator since 1975, having held positions at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan where I became the first African American woman in the United States to be promoted to full professor of architecture. I teach an undergraduate design studio in architecture, offer graduate seminars on the ethics of professional practice and community leadership practices, and advise doctoral students in social work and education. I convene an annual interdisciplinary design charrette at the beginning of spring quarter that involves practitioners, faculty, and students in developing alternatives for a local urban design problem. My research focuses on youth, culture, and the environment. My book, Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society, is based on a three-year evaluation of the Urban Network, a K-12 urban design program I founded while at the University of Michigan.

Sutton, Sharon E. and Kemp, Susan P. (2002). Children as partners in the place-making process: Design charrettes as a strategy for developing civic activism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, Vol. 22. pp. 171-189.

Sutton, Sharon E. (2001). Reinventing professional privilege as inclusivity: A proposal for a sustainable praxis of architecture. In Piotrowski and Robinson (Eds.), The Discipline of Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 173-207.

Sutton, Sharon E. (1997). Children inhabiting a landscape of safety. In Ellin (Ed.), Architecture of Fear. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 241-251.

Sutton, Sharon E. (1996). Resisting patriarchal norms in professional education. In Conway, Agrest, Weisman (Eds.). The Sex of Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 287-294. Book awarded AIA Citation for Excellence in International Book Publishing, Design/Theory category.

Sutton, Sharon E. (1996). Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society. Westport: Bergin and Garvey Publishers. In Giroux and Freire (Eds.), Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series.

Reviews :

David Stea (2001, Spring). In Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 82-84.

Robert Coles (1998, November). In Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 52, No. 2, p. 128.

Richard A. Brosio (1998). In Educational Studies, pp. 38-42.

Richard A. Brosio (1997, March). In Choice, Vol. 34, No. 7.