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Diane Fellows

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Diane Fellows has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of architecture and interior design. Fellows teaches architectural design and theory in the undergraduate and graduate areas. Her work explores issues of place-making and visual culture, specifically the juncture of cinema and architectural processes and design.

Fellows began her career as a photographer, earning a bachelor’s degree at the Philadelphia College of Art/University of the Arts. She received a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her master’s in architecture from the University of Oregon in 1992.

Prior to joining Miami’s faculty in 2002, Fellows was a project designer for Ellerbe Becket Ltd., working on diverse national and international projects. She is currently working on a series of films, stories, and essays titled “TopoNarratives” that concern personal and public spaces of migration in the urban landscape. Her short films have been presented in national and international venues. Her short films, “TopoNarratives 1-4” and “the Alley” are available through the Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2008; “the Alley” is a finalist certificate winner in the New York Festivals Awards 2008.

Date Published: 02/19/2009
Volume: 27 Number: 22