Ila Berman, DDes MRAIC

Ila Berman, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture is an architect, theorist, and curator of architecture and urbanism whose research investigates the relationship between culture and the evolution of contemporary material, technological, and spatial practices. She is a featured alumna of Harvard University’s Grounded Visionaries series and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Design, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowships, AIA’s Special Achievement Award, and the Tulane University’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, where she was a Favrot Professor, founding director of the URBANbuild program, and the Associate Dean of the School of Architecture until 2007. She has also held academic administrative appointments as the O’Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and as the Director of the School of Architecture at CCA in San Francisco.