Ann Pendleton-Jullian is an architect, writer, and educator of international standing. Believing in the vital exchange between ideas and architecture, thought and action, she has founded her practice on both commissioned work and theoretical projects. Independently, and in previous partnership with Guillaume Jullian de la Fuente, she has produced a portfolio of work that exhibits a thoroughness of approach: one which is straightforward and optimistic, yet sophisticated and elegant, with an edge honed by an affinity for the uncanny(i).

Her work has been exhibited and published extensively and has developed a reputation for the manner in which it poeticizes the intersection between pragmatic concerns and the ambitions of the imagination (ii). Pragmatism, as both a method of engaging the parameters of the problem, and as an idealogy. And the imagination as a site in which complex cultural motivations are present yet yearn towards that which goes beyond the simple validation of what is known, or of what is attached to a fixed present.

While positioned within a field of cultural production that is firmly rooted in the discipline of architecture, the work consciously mines material from allied creative disciplines. Mining cinema, literature, poetry, primitive + modern + conceptual art, and theory associated with the sciences, the work is intellectually alive, yet held within a very tangible framework. Convinced of the strong correspondence between the sites in which one acts and one's actions, this other material is specifically used to pry open the intimate relationship between site, program and action, inserting new terms that expand the understanding of these sites and the possibilities of their engagement in both real and virtual terms.

Ann Pendleton-Jullian took up architecture after a brief but serious attempt to adopt astrophysics as a career choice. She obtained her bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University in 1979 and her master of architecture from Princeton in 1983. In between, she served her professional apprenticeship in Chicago where the craft of building became fused with her design and theoretical interests. In the mid eighties, she opened her first professional office in Los Angeles and after three years in practice there, returned to the east coast to begin teaching as parallel activity to the practice. In 1993, she was offered a faculty position at MIT where she was tenured in 2000.

Association with MIT has led the work into new territories in which the ether of science and a critical fascination with digital tools have initiated new ways of thinking about and developing the work and practice. Simultaneously, the trans-disciplinary environment has deepened ongoing methods of inquiry.

Current under- and cross-currents of research:

information theory, physical and psycho-geographies complexity as contingent variabilty associated with 'pliant'( iii )spatial
ordering systems
parametric thinking and design
game theory and design
creative programming: construction of the durational 'event' - studies associated with the intersection of architecture with fiction, poetry , and cinema
catalytic urbanism
latin American culture, urbanism, architecture and landscape
L-C's Hospital of Venice

(i) It is not insignificant that ap-j was raised in the suburban mid-west of the sixties where trees never grew taller than five feet, backyards followed one after the other into the next state, and the emptiness of the space between house and horizon was best filled by the science fiction of Bradbury or Calvino, and a material passion for the production and manipulation of textiles.

(ii). . . book, writings, thought, architecture! . . . impressive, impacting, and profound. The four wonderful booklets . . . just delicious; warm my heart in their clarity, their precision, their searching, their love of architecture and love of thought. Beautiful works, deep and refreshing . . . They are joyous songs to the discipline of architecture!!! -John Hejduk

(iii) Greg Lynn uses the word 'pliancy' for "first an internal flexibility and second a dependence on external forces for self definition". However, I do not see the original internal order or the external forces as formally driven or driving, constructs or systems, but instead, as being imbedded with value both formally/materially and culturally/behaviorally.

Projects

2004+. Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Campus Design.

2004+. Charlestown and East Boston, MA. Development projects.

2004+. Single Family House in La Reserva, Santiago, Chile.

2003. Nam June Paik Museum (competition/exhibited).

2001-2002. Atlantic Learning Center at The Highlands Center, North Truro, MA.

2000-2001. Highlands Center, Cape Cod, MA. Master Plan for conversion of the North Truro Air Force Station to an interdisciplinary center for the environmental arts and sciences.

2000-2001. Sandler Treehouse Studio, Laguna Beach, CA.

2000. Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA. (competition/finalist).

1999. "Conectividad y Paisaje en los bordes urbanos y cuenca del arroyo Miguelete", II Montevideo Seminar, Montevideo, Uruguay. Urban design project for the River Miguelete basin. Sponsored by the Municipality of Montevideo, the Faculty of Architecture and the Embassy of the United States.

1998. Hotel in the Nahuel Huapi Park, Argentina. (competition).

1997. Jyväskylä Music and Art Center, Jyväskylä, Finland. (competition/finalist).

1997. Casa Vicuña-Marin, Zapallar, Chile.

1996. Little Bighorn Indian Memorial, Montana. (competition).

1995. Bioclimatic House for Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

1995. Casa Loubejac, Colina, Chile.

1994. Two New Churches and Community Centers to be built in the Diocese of Rome. (competition).

1994. Patterns for Head Start, Prototypical Head Start facility. (competition)

1992. Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan. (competition).

1990-1992. House for Dr. Carl Sagan and Ms. Ann Druyan, first phase Ithaca, NY.

1991. Marblehead house, Marblehead, MA.

1989. Swimming Pool Pavilion at Tyler Road, Ithaca, NY.

1988. New Congress Hall for Chile, Valparaíso, Chile. (competition/exhibited).

1987. Three Houses, Ithaca, NY.

1986. Residence for Dr. Nair, Surfside, CA.

1985. Capistrano Beach Residence, Capistrano Beach, CA

1985. Sandler Residence, Dana Point, CA.

1984. Blue Lagoon Residence, Laguna Beach, CA.

1984. Guest Houses for Stein Residence, Monarch Beach, CA.

1984. Samms Residence, Vista, CA.

1984. Friess Haus, San Bernadino, CA.

1984. Gibson Addition, San Juan Capistrano, CA.

1983. House in Canyon Lake, Lake Elsinore, CA.

Publications Authored

The Asian University for Women. Pamphlet. fall 2005.

"Simmons Hall. Broaching the Uncanny." In Il Giornale dell'Architettura, March 2003. pp. 22-23.

"Autopoetic Architecture. The Open City, Ritoque Chile." In Architecturally Speaking. Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday . Edited by Alan J. Read. Routledge, London. 2000. pp. 253-286

"Reseña libro: 12 Entrevistas con Arquitectos". In ARQ 42; Santiago, Chile; Julio 1999. pp. 76-77.

Casas. Obra de Arquitectos Chilenos Contemporáneos . (Houses. The Work of Contemporary Chilean Architects.) Ediciones ARQ, Santiago de Chile. 1997. pp. 8-33.

The Road That Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts. 1996.

"The Open City, Ritoque, Chile". In Spazio e Societá, 66; Milan, Italy; April/June 1994. pp. 26-41.

"The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile". In the ACSA Journal, march 1994.

"Collage Poetico de Le Corbusier en La Sainte-Baume". In CA, revista oficial del colegio de arquitectos de Chile a.g.; Santiago, Chile; july, aug, sept 1992. pp. 43-46.

"La Poétique du Collage". In Silo, #4, automne 1990. pp. 32-40.

"Regional structure and open form. Reflections on the Hospital of Venice of Le Corbusier and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile". Proceedings of the University of Oklahoma centennial symposium 'Organic Pluralism'. University of Oklahoma Press, March 1990.

"Le Corbusier's Unknown Building at Sainte-Baume". In Design Book Review; Feb 1988.

"The Collage Poetics of Le Corbusier at La Sainte-Baume". In A + U, Architecture and Urbanism, Japan; December 1987.

"Un Le Corbusier Sconosciuto / Unknown Le Corbusier". In Parametro, no. 156, may 1987.

Publications About

Publications on the Asian University for Women: 4 Bangladesh newspapers, MIT Plan and The Tech (4 times), Kuwait Times (11.3.04), MIT website, AUWSF website, numerous press releases, etc.

Guillermo Jullian. Obra Abierta . Rodrigo Pérez de Arce A.; Ediciones ARQ; Santiago, Chile. 2000. pp. 12-13, 103, 152-175, 198.

Il Seminario Montevideo 'Conectividad y Paisaje en los bordes urbanos y cuenca del arroyo Miguelete'. Talleres de Proyecto Urbano , Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. 1999. pp. 28-31, 60-61.

"Casa bioclimatica en Tenerife". In ARQ 41; Santiago, Chile; April 1999. pp. 16-19.

"Casa Vicuña-Marin". In GA Houses 55; Tokyo, Japan; 1998. pp. 14-15.

"A Tube of Wind and Light. A Faculty Collaboration in the Canary Islands". In Plan #46; newsletter of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, Cambridge, MA, winter 1997.

"Casa a Tenerife, Canarie". In Spazio e Societá, 76; Milan, Italy; october/december 1996. pp. 90-97.

"Bioclimatic House for Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain". In GA Houses 48; Tokyo, Japan; 1996. pp. 74-77.

"Casa Loubejac, Colina, Chile." In Spazio e Societá, 72; Milan, Italy; oct/dec 1995. pp. 64-69.

"Casa Loubejac, Colina, Chile." In ARQ 29; Santiago, Chile; 1995. pp. 10-13.

"JULLIAN AND PENDLETON. Casa Loubejac." In GA Houses 45; Tokyo, Japan; 1995. pp. 108-109.

"Mit-Iauv: architettura in campo." In Il Gazzettino feb 4, 1995; Venice, Italy; p. VI.

"Of Architecture and Astronomy. Capturing the Sky in Carl Sagan's Ithaca, New York, Study." In Architectural Digest, july 1994. Los Angeles, CA; pp. 14-16, 72-77.

"Atelier Jullian and Pendleton. House for Dr. Carl Sagan and Ms. Ann Druyan". In GA Houses 37; Tokyo, Japan; 1993. pp. 67 - 69.

"Casa Dr. Carl Sagan / Ann Druyan. Ithaca. New York." In ARQ 20; Santiago, Chile; 1992. pp. 22-33.

"Casa Dr. Carl Sagan, Ithaca/E.E.U.U." Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente and Ann M Pendleton-Jullian. In CA, revista oficial del colegio de arquitectos de Chile a.g.; Santiago, Chile; april, may, june 1989. pp.38-45.

Concurso de Anteproyectos Congreso Nacional Valparaíso Chile. Republica de Chile Direccion de Arquitectura, Ministerio de Obras Publicas. 1989. pp. 46-47.

"Congreso Nacional: Los Proyectos que no Ganaron". Elvira Reymond N. and Teresa Marx. In VM, no. 10, agosto 1988. p. 35.

Window, Room, Furniture ; Williams, Scofidio; The Cooper Union and Rizzoli Int. Publications; New York, NY; 1981.

The Urban Villa ; Studio Press for Architecture; Cologne, West Germany; 1977.

Awards

2004. Rotch Traveling Studio Grant for travel to Bangladesh and India.

2000. Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA. Exhibited Competition Finalist.

1999. Boston Society of Architects 'Unbuilt Boston' Award for the Bioclimatic House in Tenerife.

1998. Hotel in the Nahuel Huapi Park, Argentina. Competition Finalist.

1998. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Award. Fifty books and Fifty Covers of 1996. Book design award for The Road That Is Not a Road .

1997. Jyväskylä Music and Art Center, Jyväskylä, Finland. Competition Finalist.

1997. Recipient of Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Chair at MIT.

1987. Fulbright Fellowship Program Faculty Grant for travel/research in Chile.

1979. Charles Goldwin Sands Medal (thesis prize)

1979. Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship (merit award)

1977. Baird Prize (best design award)

Exhibitions

5/03. "Ann Pendleton-Jullian: Facts + Fictions (w/footnotes)". Wolk Gallery, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts.

5/01. "Inlaid Horizons. The Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian". At the Catholic University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile.

9/00. Project for the Palos Verdes Art Center exhibited at 'Palos Verdes Art Center Competition. Selected Projects.' Palos Verdes, CA.

1999. Project for the Bioclimatic House in Tenerife exhibited at 'Build Boston' sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects.

1992. "Exposicion Casa Sagan". Construction Drawings / Details. Exhibition, Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.

1990. "Portfolio Work: Sagan / Druyan House". Exhibition of participants' work, Forum-Québec. Le Petit Seminaire, Laval University, Québec City, Canada. Created by the International Forum of Young Architects.

1990. "Forum Québec Competition Projects". Exhibition of participants' work, International Forum of Young Architects Forum-Québec. Le Petit Seminaire, Laval University, Québec City and at International Union of Architects XVII Congress, Montréal, Canada.

1990. "House for Dr. Carl Sagan and Ms. Ann Druyan. Preliminary Project Sketches". Exhibition, Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, New York.

1989. "Recent Work and Work in Progress". Exhibition, Cafe Max Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky. Sponsored by the School of Architecture, University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Chapter of the AIA.

1977. "The Urban Villa". Exhibit, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, West Berlin, W. Germany.

Teaching

1993+. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tenured Associate Professor since 2000.

Courses Taught:

4. 156 Achitectural Design Graduate Studio Level III:

spr/04. Extreme topographies. The Asian University for Women Campus Design.

spr/03. The Valparaíso Studio. Architecture as tactical engagement of the gravity's imperative. Co-taught with Mark Burry.

spr/02. A game of chess is a visual, plastic thing (M. Duchamp). Game structure and game play as overlay on an abandoned desert phosphate mining town.

spr/01. Facts and Fictions. Catalytic Urbanism at the Tijuana border.

4.143 Achitectural Design Graduate Studio Level II

fall/03. Interfaith Sacred Space Design Competition.

Awards received: first place and honorable mention

4.123 Achitectural Design Graduate Studio Level I

4.181 Architectural Design Workshop

4.189 Preparation for MArch Thesis

4THG Graduate Design Thesis

Universidad Católica de Santiago, School of Architecture, Santiago, Chile. affiliated since 1998.

Universidad San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Cusco Peru. made Honorary Professor for life in 1997.

Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Instituto de Architectura, Viña del Mar, Chile. affiliated since 1996.

1988-1993. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Assistant Professor.

1992. Cornell University Summer Program in Chile, Director and Critic.

1990. Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Design Studio Coordinator for introductory six week program in architecture.

1988. Cornell University Summer Program in Spain, Director and Critic.

1987. Cornell University Summer Program in France, Director and Critic.

1982-1983. Princeton University, NJ, Junior Design Studio, Teaching Assistant.

Lectures and Seminars

5/04. Speaker at 'Year/s of Water/s. Water, Life and Design.' Center for Innovation in Landscape, Urbanism and Ecology at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

10/03. Lecture and Seminars at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.

9/03. Lecture at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. "Autopoetic Architecture. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

2/03. Gallery talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) on the work of Diller + Scofidio, Boston.

12/02. Lecture at The Americas Society on the Open City in Ritoque, Chile. New York.

6/02. Public Lecture in Bari, Italy, on the Highlands Center Project, the Transcendentalists of New England and the Cape Cod Landscape.

5/01. Lecture at the Catholic University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile. "Inlaid Horizons. The Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian".

4/01. Public lecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA. "Inlaid Horizons. The Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian".

11/00. Lecture at the Atheneum in La Jolla, CA. "Autopoetic Architecture. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

10/99. Lecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene: "Landscape Hinges and the Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian".

9/99. Lecture by video-conference at the 3rd International Congress of Architecture, Querétaro.

7/99. Three lectures at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, S. Africa: "Landscape Hinges and the Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian", "Poetic Foundations: The Open City, Ritoque, Chile", "The MIT Workshops".

7/99. Invited to jury design competition for the Des Baker Awards with the theme of Cultural Tourism at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, S. Africa.

5/99. Lecture at the 5th International Congress of Architecture, Monterey, Mexico.

3/99. Lecture for the Architectural Association, Montevideo, Uruguay: "Landscape Hinges and the Work of Ann Pendleton-Jullian".

3/99. Lecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Montevideo, Uruguay on alternative architectural pedagogies: "the MIT Workshops and the work of the Catholic University of Valparaíso".

1998. Lecture at the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois: "Poetic Foundations: The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1998. Lecture at SCI-ARC, Los Angeles, CA: "Poetic Foundations: The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1997. Lecture at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London: "Autopoetic Architecture. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1997. Lecture at the Architectural Association, London: "Poetic Foundations: The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1997. Lecture, authors @ mit series, "The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1997. Lecture in the Facets of Architecture Series at the architectural firm of CBT (Childs Bertman Tseckares), Boston, MA: "Autopoetic Architecture. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile and its Legacy".

1997. Lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design: "The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1997. Lecture at the School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico: "The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1996. Lectures and Seminar at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru.

1996. Public lecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA.: "Conversations with the Landscape".

1995. Lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico: "The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1995. Lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico: "The MIT Venice Workshops".

1994. Lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "Re-searching the Sacred Landscape: The Work of the Catholic University in Ritoque, Chile".

1994. Paper delivered at the Annual National Conference of the ACSA in Montréal: an abridgment of "The road that is not a road. The Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1993. Lecture at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: "The work of the Catholic University of Valparaíso".

1992. Invited as a design studio professor for a one week joint studio with the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.

1992. Lecture at the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago: "The Collage Poetics of Le Corbusier at La Sainte-Baume".

1990. 'Organic Pluralism: A Symposium on Design'. Centennial symposium, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. Paper entitled "Regional structure and open form. Reflections on the Hospital of Venice of Le Corbusier and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile".

1989. Lecture at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky on the work of Atelier Jullian and Pendleton. Sponsored by the University and the Kentucky Chapter of the AIA.

1988. Lecture at Yale University, New Haven Connecticut: "The Collage Poetics of Le Corbusier at La Sainte-Baume".

1988. Lecture at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky: "The Collage Poetics of Le Corbusier at La Sainte-Baume".