Lynnette Widder
Professor of Practice, Sustainability Management; Principal and Cofounder, aardvarchitecture
Lynnette Widder is Professor of Practice in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. Her current research includes work on urban diaspora and non-cultivated plant life (Columbia World Projects and the Center for the Study of Social Difference), sustainable bauxite mining in West Africa (UNDP and Climate School Earth Frontiers), earth construction and its environmental implications (SPS and GSAPP), and innovation in climate change communication (Climate School Earth Networks). She is the author of Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture (2022) and co-authored Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice (2014) and Ira Rakatansky: As Modern as Tomorrow (2010). Her non-fiction has appeared in the Oxonian Review, Daidalos, Bauwelt, Architecture, Manifest, Kritische Berichte, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and The Social Science Journal; and her fiction, in Northwest Review, Blue White and Camera Obscura. She has curated three exhibitions on environmentally responsive Japanese-American architect Kaneji Domoto and received awards for her renovation of his Lurie House. Funding for her research has also come from the Mellon Foundation, the AIA New York Center for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the German Academic Exchange (DAAD), Fulbright, and the UN Development Programme in Guinea; and has held fellowships from the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris and MacDowell. The work of her architectural office, aardvarchitecture, has been published in the US, Europe, China and Australia.
Education
- Sc.D, ETH Zurich
- M.A., Columbia University
- B.A., Barnard College