Ann Pendleton-Jullian, a distinguished figure in Architecture and Design, earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. After professional apprenticeships in Chicago and New York, she established her practice in Los Angeles and later partnered with Guillaume Jullian de la Fuente in Ithaca, Boston, and Paris, resuming independent practice in Cambridge in 1996. From 1993 to 2007, she served as a tenured Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including three years as Associate Head of the Department. Her academic career also encompasses teaching at Princeton and Cornell, and later roles as Professor and former Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Design at Georgetown University and the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, and Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Pendleton-Jullian’s research interests center on the interplay of architecture, landscape, culture, science, and technology in complex global contexts, emphasizing design for emergence, empowerment, and economic development. Key projects include a house for astronomer Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, an eight-village ecosystem for rural craft tourism in Guizhou Province, China, a new Jesuit university in Eastern Africa, and the reimagining of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has earned awards for prototypical bioclimatic houses, such as one in Tenerife, and competition successes like the New Congress Hall in Valparaíso, Chile, and the Miguelete River basin urban design in Montevideo. Major publications feature The Road That Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile (MIT Press, 1996), Games for Shanghai (CA Press, 2008), Design Education and Innovation Ecotones (2009), and Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (with John Seely Brown, MIT Press, 2018). A TEDx speaker and participant in Aspen Institute roundtables and the Highlands Forums Group, her work has been widely exhibited and lectured internationally across North America, South America, and Asia.