Felicity Scott
Scott is an architect, writer, and academic. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University in New York City.
Also recorded as Felicity D. Scott · Felicity Dale Elliston Scott
Felicity Scott

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- Born
- 1965 · Australia.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- academic · architect · professor · writer
- Education
- RMIT University · University of Melbourne · Harvard Graduate School of Design · Princeton University School of Architecture
- Honours
- Berlin Prize · William J. Mitchell Prize
- Languages
- English
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Scott is an architect, writer, and academic. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University in New York City.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Felicity Scott studied at RMIT University, University of Melbourne and Harvard Graduate School of Design. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at New York. Employment is recorded with Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Distinctions recorded are Berlin Prize and William J.
Following her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, Scott received a master’s degree in architecture and urban design from Harvard University in 1994, and a PhD from Princeton University in 2001.
Career
Career
Scott is a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is the director of the PhD program in Architecture (History and Theory), and co-director of the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP). She is a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly academic journal published by MIT Press.
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Awards
Scott has received the German Transatlantic Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin (2013), Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grants (2011, 2017), a New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project Award (2010), a Clark Fellowship (2008), and an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation (2007). In 2022, Scott was honoured by the Australian Institute of Architects with the William J Mitchell International Chapter Prize, which recognises significant international contributions to architecture by an Australian.
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