Nora Wendl

Assistant Professor
Master of Architecture, Iowa State University, 2006
Bachelor of Architecture, Iowa State University, 2003

Contact: nora.wendl@pdx.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Current Classes:
Arch 281: Design Fundamentals Studio 2
Arch 407/507: Contemporary Issues

Research:
Nora Wendl is an Assistant Professor of Design in the Department of Architecture at Portland State University. The focus of her research is the alternative histories, theories and practices of architecture that either enhance or contradict those authored by the discipline itself. She has compiled a history of the Farnsworth House (Farnsworth House, Collected Works) as recorded by its patron, mass media outlets, legal proceedings and other overlooked critical sources. Her material scholarship positions architecture as an amplification of culture; to this end, she has collaborated with a number of contemporary artists in the design and production of environments, including Theaster Gates and Harmen Liemburg. Wendl is co-editor, with Isabelle Loring Wallace, of Architectural Strategies in Contemporary Art (Ashgate, 2012).