Nancy Levinson is an architect, editor, and writer. In her work in print and online periodicals and books and now at Phoenix Urban Research Lab, her goal is to promote a broad understanding and appreciation of the public arts of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and in this way to advocate for a vigorous civic realm. Recipient of a Bachelors of Arts in English from Yale and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, she practiced architecture for several years in Philadelphia, collaborating on the design of dance studios for the Pennsylvania Ballet and music performance spaces for Swarthmore College. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she cofounded Harvard Design Magazine and directed issues on diverse topics including monuments and memorials, sprawl and spectacle culture, changing perceptions of nature, postcommunist Eastern Europe, the nature of representation, and the volatility of professional recognition and artistic canons. More recently at Princeton Architectural Press, she edited books on topics ranging from the perception of architecture to vernacular photography. She has contributed to many periodicals, including Architectural Record (where she is a contributing editor), Perspecta, I.D., Metropolis, Dwell, Landscape Architecture, Graphis, Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Planning, Historic Preservation, and the emagazine Knowledge Circuit. For two years she wrote the architecture weblog “Pixel Points” for Arts Journal. She has reported on many subjects, including the rise of private architectural practice in China, the increasing interdependence of universities and cities, the legacy of Cuban modernism, and the transformative effects of digital communication on design culture.
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