Mary-Ann Ray STUDIO WORKS ARCHITECTS Principal and Partner 1800 Industrial Street Los Angeles, CA 90021 213 623 7075 213 623 7335 fax SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture Adjunct Faculty Los Angeles, CA UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Taubman Centennial Professor of Practice in Architecture Alfred A. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Ann Arbor, MI BASE Beijing Co-Founder and Co-Director Beijing, P.R. CHINA [email protected] [email protected] www.studioworksarchitects.com www.basebeijing.cn www.basebeijing.tumblr.com Ms. Ray is the Taubman Centennial Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Alfred A. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Adjunct Faculty Member at SCI-Arc. She has also held numerous prestigious visiting chair positions at other institutions including the Saarinen Professor at Yale University and the Wortham Professor at Rice University. Ms. Ray was the Chair of Environmental Arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 1997 – 1999. Professionally, Mary-Ann Ray is a Principal of Studio Works Architects in Los Angeles and a Co-Founder and Director of BASE Beijing and BASE Mumbai. Studio Works is a world renowned award winning design firm whose design work and research have been widely published. Mary-Ann Ray and her partner Robert Mangurian are architects, authors, and designers, and in 2001 they were awarded the prestigious Chrysler Design Award for Excellence and Innovation in an ongoing body of work in a design field. In 2008 they were awarded the Stirling Prize for the Memorial Lecture on the City by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the London School of Economics. They have received numerous Progressive Architecture Awards for their design projects. Among her published books are Pamphlet Architecture No. 20 Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice and Midgets, Wrapper, and the recent Caochangdi: Beijing Inside Out. Ray was a recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize in 1987-1988. E D U C A T I O N : Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Master of Architecture, February 1987 (with honors) 1 Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles, California M.Arch program, Fall Semester 1985 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Summer 1980 (Special Fellowship Session) University of Washington Seattle, Washington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Graphic Design , June 1981 (with honors) A C A D E M I C A P P O I N T M E N T S : University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Ann Arbor, Michigan Centennial Professor of Practice 2007 - present B.A.S.E. Beijing Architecture Studio Enterprise Beijing, P.R. CHINA Founding Director with Robert Mangurian 2005 - present Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles, California Core Graduate Faculty, Design Studios, Seminars, Coordinator of 2nd Year Undergraduate Studio 1988 – 2009 Adjunct Faculty 2010 - present Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles, California Appointed as one of the 'Faculty 5' to act as Interim Director of SCI-Arc 2001-2002, Final Candidate of 3 for Position of Director, Coordinator of the 3-1/2 Year Graduate Program 2000-2001 Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, California Chair, Environmental Arts 1997- 1999 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Visiting Saarinen Chair Spring 2002, Fall 2005 Rice University Houston, Texas Visiting Wortham Professor of Architecture Spring Semester 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, Fall Semester 2004 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Visiting Graduate Options Studio Instructor Fall 1999 Yale University, School of Architecture New Haven, Connecticut Saarinen Visiting Professor in Architectural Design Spring Semester 1996 2 Atelier Italia Ronciglione, Viterbo Italy Co-Director of the Study Abroad Program Summers 1986 - 1998 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Regular visiting studio critic 1988 Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Architecture 101, precept leader 1986 C O U R S E S T A U G H T : Since joining the faculty of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in the Fall of 2007, and in her teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture beginning in 1988, Ms. Ray has taught design studios primarily in the Graduate Program. She has also taught seminars on Ancient Roman Architecture, Contemporary Chinese Urbanism, Suburban Conditions, and an introductory seminar on Los Angeles entitled Seeing:L.A.. She has coordinated the 2nd year Spring Undergraduate Design Studios at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and most recently taught an upper level options studio that traveled to Mumbai. Ms. Ray has led study abroad programs for five consecutive years starting in the Spring of 2006 to Beijing China and Mumbai India. Additionally, Ms. Ray has served as a visiting Professor at numerous institutions (refer to Academic Appointments). Full list of courses taught - provided upon request T H E S I S A D V I S I N G (all at the Southern California Institute of Architecture unless otherwise noted) : 2008 Eileen Dikdan Arthur Switalski Christopher Ward Crissy Zhou 2005 Guy Horton (Thesis Honors) Gabrielle Strong 2004 Elizabeth Keslacy (Thesis Honors) 2003 Anthony Ryan Anderson Faith Jarrat Rouse Christopher Kennan Ariana Rinderknecht Carey Ann Ryder Anuradha Sahni Dan Tracy Ting 2002 Robyn Kelly Bisbee Sarah Ann France 2001 Kai Cole Catherine Hope Garrison Hisako Ichiki 2000 Anne Barakat Michael Lee Bessner Alex I Lin Poonam Sharma 1999 Stephan Kowal Chokchoi Sereevinyayut Patrick H. Bambrough Dawn Gilpin 1988 – 1998 provided upon request 3 L E C T U R E S : “Built and Unbuilt Work” AIA Dallas Chapter Dallas, Texas April 2016 "Practicing Studio Works" Pro-Practice Week Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia January 2015 "Ruralopolitan: 21st Century Space with Chinese Characteristics" University of Southern California Los Angeles, California April 2015 "Drawing as Thinking" Co-Speaker and Co-Panelist with Steven Holl - Symposium "Past as Prologue" for Michael Graves Architectural League and Parsons New School for Design New York, New York November 2014 “Ruralopolitan Maneuvers” Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China June 2014 “Beijing’s Urban Villages: Housing of the People, by the People, for the People” University of Michigan Architectural Revolutions Workshop Ann Arbor, MI February 2014 “Digging Hadrian and Digital Hadrian’s Villa” Guest Lecturer in Marcello Mogetta’s Imperial Roman Architecture Course University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI February 2014 “Update on Rural Work in China” Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China November 2014 “Rural Work in China” Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China May 2014 “BASEline China” Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, California February 2012 “Ruralopolitan Stuff” Tulane University School of Architecture New Orleans, Louisiana March 2011 “Vanishing Hoods of Beijing” Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China June 2010 4 “Beijing Inside Out – Caochangdi” The 2008-2009 Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City London School of Economics Cities Programme London, England November 2009 “Post Google Earth Chinese Urbanism and Ruralism” Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fall 2009 “Urban Villages of Beijing” 16th International Conference on Urban Form International Society of Urban Form South China University of Technology, Guangzhou China September 2009 “Caochangdi After Google Earth” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, China Summer 2009 “Critical Practice in a Globalizing World” College of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Washington, Seattle Washington May 2009 “Postopolis! L.A.” Sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, Calfornia Spring 2009 “Beijing Inside Out – Caochangdi” The 2008-2009 Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City AIA, New York Chapter New York, New York Spring 2009 “Recent Work” Mississippi State University Mississippi State, Mississippi Spring 2009 “Beijing Inside Out – Caochangdi” The 2008-2009 Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal, Quebec, Canada Fall 2008 “China Inside Out – Rural and Urban Conundrums” University of Michigan Faculty Talk Ann Arbor, Michigan Fall 2008 “West Adams Preparatory High School” Presentation and Discussion with Roger Sherman Los Angeles Forum Sponsored Event Los Angeles, California Fall 2008 “Off Center Center City Conundrums – Rome, Los Angeles, Beijing” University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign, Illinois Spring 2008 5 “Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and Midgets” Center for Land Use Interpretation, Inaugural Event for Bldg.blog in Los Angeles Culver City, California January 2007 “Digging Hadrian and Bladerunning to Beijing” Chicago Architectural Foundation, Sponsored by Chicago Women in Architecture Chicago, Illinois May 2005 “Then Then, Now Now, New New” University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Fall 2005 “Then Then, Now Now, New New” Princeton University Princeton, NJ Fall 2005 “Then Then, Now Now, New New” University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Fall 2005 “You Can’t Go Wrong, But it’s Hard to Go Right” Rice University Houston, Texas Fall 2004 “Presentation as Finalist, Dean Candidate” University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA Fall 2004 “Presentation as Finalist, Dean Candidate” Cornell University College of Art, Architecture and Planning Ithaca, New York Spring 2004 “Recent