Rate My Professor Jeana Ripple

Jeana Ripple serves as Chair and Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture in the University of Virginia School of Architecture. She earned her Master of Architecture with high distinction from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. A registered architect holding AIA and LEED AP certifications, Ripple is the principal and co-founder of the collaborative architecture firm Mir Collective. Prior to joining UVA, she practiced at Studio Gang Architects in Chicago, leading numerous building and landscape projects. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the UVA Environmental Institute, where she leads initiatives to model the carbon impact of building materials and trends in building longevity.

Ripple's research explores the extensive civic and environmental implications of architectural design, with a particular emphasis on building materials, the transformation of existing buildings to anticipate future needs while promoting positive civic and environmental impacts, and material resilience through systems frameworks at varying scales. Her teaching includes graduate and undergraduate foundation design studios, design research methods courses, and advanced design computation courses. She has received the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award and the BTES Emerging Faculty Award for her innovative approaches to teaching building technology through design and performance-simulation. As one of six founding editors of the ACSA/Taylor and Francis journal TAD: Technology | Architecture + Design, she served as issue editor for its second issue, “Simulations: Modeling, Measuring, and Disrupting Design.” Her book, The Type V City: Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2025.

Ripple's professional practice features the 2023 renovation of Zaha Hadid’s Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, a shortlisted design proposal for the 2021 international C40 Chicago competition involving a net-zero community kitchen, permanent supportive housing, and health services for those experiencing homelessness, and the rehabilitation of the community kitchen building ArtHouse Gary, recognized with a SEED Award for Community Engagement in 2017. Her work has been featured in international awards, competitions, and exhibitions exploring spatial, temporal, social, and environmental aspects of building material assemblies.