Deborah Berke
American architect

Deborah Berke

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American architect
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1954(United States of America)
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Deborah Berke (born 1954) is an American architect and academic. She is the founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, a New York City-based design firm. Burke has served as an adjunct professor of architectural design at Yale University since 1987, and as of July 2016 she became the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, making her the first woman to head the university's School of Architecture.

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Berke received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has a bachelor's degree in both fine art and architecture. She received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2005.

In 2012, she became the first Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize laureate.

Selected works

  • 1982, Rob Krier : urban projects, 1968-1982 (with Rob Krier; Kenneth Frampton; Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies)
  • 1984, Visual analysis (with University of Maryland, College Park. School of Architecture)
  • 1985, 32 buildings (with Mark McInturff; University of Maryland, College Park. School of Architecture)
  • 1990, 30 buildings (with Mark McInturff; University of Maryland, College Park. School of Architecture)
  • 1997, Architecture of the everyday (with Steven Harris)
  • 2008, Deborah Berke (with Tracy Myers)
  • 2016, House rules : an architect's guide to modern life