Sharon Johnston Lecture - Wednesday, September 26

Sharon Johnston is a founding partner of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee. Projects undertaken by Johnston Marklee are diverse in scale and type, spanning seven countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Johnston is a Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has taught at major universities including Princeton University and UCLA, and held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Johnston and partner Mark Lee were the Artistic Directors for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Johnston Marklee designed the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, which opens to the public on November 3, 2018.