Rate My Professor Emilie Taylor Welty

Welty's research centers on design-build education, material explorations, expanding access to design, and public interest design. Key publications include “Public Interest Design, Pragmatism, and Potentials in a Postdiluvian City” with Ann Yoachim and Nick Jenisch in the Journal of Architectural Education (2020); “Design-Build Studio Outcomes; Researching Potential vs. Practice” with Ann Yoachim and Austin Hogans (ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, 2019); “Refining Process, Expanding Practice: Public Interest Design Fieldnotes from the South” (ACSA Annual Meeting, 2018); “How Do We Remember? Architects and Social Psychologists Team Up to Craft a Data-Driven Approach to the Design of Monuments in Public Spaces” with Tiffany Lin and Lisa Molix (ARCC Research Conference, 2022); and contributions to books such as Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio (2024) and Public Interest Design Education Guidebook (2018). Her awards include the Barbara E. Moely Service Learning Teaching Award (2017), Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017), AIA/ACSA National Practice and Leadership Award (2021), Collaborative Practice Award from ACSA, and recognition in Forbes 2025 America’s Best-in-State Residential Architects for Colectivo. Welty advances community-engaged scholarship, teaching students to address real-world issues as designers, makers, and citizens.