Constance Vale

Constance Vale is an associate professor and chair of undergraduate architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She previously taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a licensed architect and director of the architecture practice Constance Vale Studio and the experimental research office The Factory of Smoke & Mirrors. She undertakes aesthetic and conceptual investigations in the territory between architecture, art, theater, and emerging technology.

Vale is the editor and a co-author of the forthcoming Graham Foundation-supported book, “Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture,” with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich. The symposium Decoys and Depictions: Images of the Digital, which Vale led in fall 2019, builds upon this research. She is also collaborating with Yevgeniy Vorobeychik in the McKelvey School of Engineering on The Architectural Design of a Testing Platform for Autonomous Driving and recently curated the related Kemper Art Museum Teaching Gallery exhibition The Autonomous Future of Mobility. In addition, she is among the architects recently selected for the international housing competition On Olive, which will result in a commissioned house in St. Louis. In 2015, Vale collaborated with Emmett Zeifman to complete a temporary pavilion in downtown Los Angeles for the experimental opera “Hopscotch.” Vale’s work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum, The Sheldon, and the Farrell Learning & Teaching Center, and published in the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, the Los Angeles Times, Archinect, and CLOG.

Vale earned a Master of Architecture from Yale University, where she received the Moulton Andrus Award for Excellence in Art and Architecture and two Feldman Nominations, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design from Parsons School of Design. She has practiced at internationally recognized offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and her hometown of Pittsburgh.