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Roberta Feldman is an American architect and educator. She was given the title of Emerita at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago. [1] She has worked with Chicago housing and community organizations to revitalize and preserve low-income neighborhoods. [2]
Feldmen received her Ph.D at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [ citation needed ]
Feldman spent her academic career at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was co-founder of the City Design Center at the University of Chicago in 1994, [3] an interdisciplinary center that encompasses research, design, and community engagement.[ citation needed ]Her work with communities is based on a methodological approach of participatory design and action research.[ citation needed ] During her time in university, she served as Director of Architecture Graduate Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.[ citation needed ]
Feldman cultivated working relationships with leaders in over fifty community organizations and development corporations in Chicago's metro region's low-income neighborhoods to address revitalizing and preserving these communities' designed environments.[ citation needed ] Through the center, Feldman initiated numerous advocacy projects as well as forums, summits, exhibits, and websites to raise the professions' and public’s awareness of design's potential to serve the public’s interest.[ citation needed ]
Feldman has received over 50 grants from federal and local governments and foundations.[ citation needed ] One such grant was the 2011 Fellows of the American Institute of Architecture's Latrobe Prize awarded to her and her colleagues Bryan Bell, Sergio Palleroni, and David Perkes to study public interest strategies in architecture in the U.S. and internationally. Their report, Wisdom From the Field: Public Interest Architecture in Practice, describes the work of 100 public interest design and research practitioners and 50 of their community and governmental partners, in particular focusing on the 'how to' engage in this type of work.
Feldman's research has focused on affordable and public housing design. She has served as:
She has served on the boards of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Environmental Design Research Association, and the National Public Housing Museum.
In addition to the awards she has won, Feldman also has an award named after her: the Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award, which was established in 2020 and is awarded by AIA Chicago. [4] [5]
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design, http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/people/roberta-feldman
