Lily Chi is Associate Professor of Architectural design, Theory and Criticism at Cornell University. She received her professional degree in Canada and graduate degrees in architectural theory and history at Cambridge and McGill Universities. Design Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education since 2000, she has written widely on issues of contemporary design criticism and education. Her doctoral work examined the role of Enlightenment concepts of custom, nature, and history in the formation of a modern architectural discourse. These themes are developed in her current research on tourism, urbanism, and propaganda in colonial Indochina. Issues of design, history and global society were also the subject of a Cornell graduate studio she conducted in Hanoi as recipient of a 2002 Rotch Traveling Studio award. Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Homepage

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