Professional Summary
Stephanie Z. Pilat is dean of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). Pilat is an award-winning scholar and nationally recognized educator. Pilat’s research and teaching center on design pedagogy, creativity, and the history of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, a Rome Prize from the American Academy, a Fulbright Fellowship, the American Association of University Women, a Wolfsonian-FIU fellowship, and a Bogliasco Fellowship. She has been named one of the "30 most admired educators" by DesignIntelligence magazine. She holds a professional degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Sciences and Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from the University of Michigan.
Pilat's current scholarship centers on the American School of Architecture, where she has built a collaborative research community producing influential exhibitions and publications. The team's recent exhibition, "Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California" at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, advanced new understanding of this influential pedagogical movement. The American School team’s roster of projects include the 2020 Renegades exhibition and an installation at the 2018 Venice Biennale. Pilat co-edited the exhibition catalog, Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture, which was awarded the 2021 Oklahoma Book Award for Design and Illustration, an honorable mention for the 2022 Society of Architectural Historians Exhibition Catalog Award and was a finalist for the College Art Association’s 2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Exhibition Catalogs.
Pilat’s first book "Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era," was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize and translated into Italian. Pilat co-edited The Routledge Companion Guide to Fascist Italian Architecture and Urbanism: Reception and Legacy with Professor Kay Bea Jones, which brought together the research of over 40 international scholars to consider how the fascist legacy in the built environment has been transformed and renegotiated.
Education
Ph.D.: University of Michigan 2009 (Architecture)
Master of Sciences: University of Michigan 2002 (Architecture)
Bachelor of Architecture: University of Cincinnati 1999
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Dawn Jourdan and Stephanie Pilat (2014. ) Preserving Public Housing: Federal, State, and Local Efforts to Preserve the Social and Architectural Forms Associated with Housing for the Poor .Preservation Education & Research, , 7 (2014 ) ,19 -30
Stephanie Pilat, Angela Person, and Carmina Sanchez (2022. ) Inclusive Design Pedagogies and Practices .Enquiry, , 19 (1 ) ,
Inclusive Design Pedagogies and Practices
Stephanie Pilat and Angela Person (2022. ) Inclusive Design Studios .Enquiry, , 19 (1 ) ,62 -75
Stephanie Pilat (2021. ) Measure What You Treasure: Elevating the Work of Architects in the Academy .The Journal of Architectural Education, , 75 (1 ) ,145 -147
Stephanie Pilat and Paolo Sanza (2020. ) Architectural Pragmatism and Poetry: Childhood in Fascist Era Summer Camps .Childhood in the Past, , 13 (2 ) ,
Published Books
Stephanie Zeier Pilat (2014. ) Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era .Ashgate Press
Angela Person, Stephanie Pilat, and Marco Piscitelli (2024. ) Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California .Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center (Co-Editor)
Kay Bea Jones and Stephanie Pilat (2020. ) The Routledge Guide to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy .Routledge (Co-Editor)
The Routledge Guide to Italian Fascist Architecture
Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person (2020. ) Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture .The University of Oklahoma Press (Co-Editor)
Stephanie Zeier Pilat (2019. ) Ricostruire L'Italia: I quartieri Ina-Casa del dopoguerra .Rome , Castelvecchi Editore (Author)
Book Chapter
Stephanie Pilat and Angela Person (2023 ) Radical Empathy in the Teaching of Bruce Goff and the American School of Architects Histories of Architecture Education in the United States .(pp. 123-134).London, Routledge (Co-Author)
Stephanie Pilat, Angela Person and Hans Butzer (2022 ) Do Not Try to Remember Radical Pedagogies .(pp. 54 -57).Boston, MIT Press (Co-Author)
Stephanie Pilat (2016 ) Constructed out of Fear: The Influence of Tuberculosis on the Design of Children's Summer Camps in Mussolini's Italy Healing Spaces: Modern Architecture and the Body .(pp. 139 -149).Ashgate (Author)
Stephanie Pilat (2015 ) La Parola al Piccone: Demonstrations of Fascism at the Imperial Fora and the Mausoleum of Augustus The Political Landscapes of Capitals .(pp. 319 -346).University of Colorado Press
Honors and Awards
2023 ACSA and Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Course Development Prize
2005 -2006 Fulbright Fellowship to Italy
2006 -2007 American Academy in Rome, Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies
2014 American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women
2014 Wolfsonian-FIU Residential Fellowship, Miami, Florida
2020 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Bogliasco, Italy
2023 National Humanities Center Summer Fellowship