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Val K. Warke

  • Associate Professor in Architecture
  • Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory
  • Director, M.S. AAD Program

Department

Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural theory
  • Architectural and urban design
  • Theory and criticism

Val Warke’s teaching and research focus has been on criticism and genre theory, including issues of fashion, formalism, populism, reception, and relations to literary theory, and in particular, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. He has been published in a number of journals, including Assemblage, A+U, Cornell Journal of Architecture, and the Harvard Design Magazine, as well as many essays and texts on the work of Morphosis. He teaches in the areas of design (architectural and urban) and architectural theory. He practices architecture with Andrea Simitch, as a partner in Simitch and Warke Architecture. In addition to the field of architecture, he is also a member of the graduate field of fiber science and apparel design.

Warke graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Architecture and Harvard University with a Master of Architecture.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural theory
  • Architectural and urban design
  • Theory and criticism

Books