Sharon E. Sutton Ph.D., FAIA
General Information
Occupation: Architect, Professor
Resident City: Seattle
Resident State/Province: Washington
Resident Country: United States
Notes: Sutton was the first African American woman to be promoted to full professor in and accredited professional degree program in architecture.
Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at:http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/sutton.html
Sources: Biographical sketch, curriculum vitae
Specialties
No specialties on record
Jobs
Employer: University of Washington
Title: Professor of Architecture, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Director of CEEDS (Center for Environment, Education and Design Studies)
City: Seattle
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Employer: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, College of Architecture and Planning
Title: Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Director of The Urban Network: An Urban Design Program for Youth
City: Ann Arbor
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Employer: University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Art, Architecture and Urban Planning
Title: Assistant Professor of Architecture and Interior Design
City: Cincinnati
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Employer: Columbia University, Graduate Shool of Architecture and Planning
Title: Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Planning
City: New York
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Employer: Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
Title: Visiting Asstant Professor of Design
City: New York
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Employer: Sharon E. Sutton, Architect
Title: Architect
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Employer: Kouzmanoff and Associates, Architects in New York City; Studio di Architettura Forte in Florence Italy, Mitchell/Giurgola Associates, Architects in Philadelphia, Bond Ryder and Associated, Architects in New York City
Title: Intern
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Notes: Various firms that Sutton completed her internship with.
Employer: Sims Varner Associates
Title: Architectural Consultant
City: Detroit
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Employer: Urban Securities Research Group
Title: Architectural Consultant
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Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Jeannette and David McKinley Fellowship
Description: Faculty Research Support
Name: Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Description: Life Recognition Award
Name: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Description: Distinguished Professor Award
Name: University of Michigan
Description: Regents Award for Distinguished Public Service
Name: American Planning Association
Description: Education Award for Teaching the Public about Planning
Name: UM School of Business Administration
Description: First Round Award, National Zell Lurie Fellowship
Name: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Description: Group VII National Fellowship
Notes: Given 1986-89
Name: National Endowment for the Arts
Description: Design Recognition Award
Exhibitions
Title: Mixed-Media Constructions
Description: Ann Arbor Public Library
City: Ann Arbor
State: New York
Country: United States
Notes: With Carol Anne Carter
Title: Sharon E. Sutton: Inner Harmonies
Description: June Kelly Gallery
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Sharon E. Sutton: Compositions
Description: Your Heritage House
City: Detroit
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Sev Shoon Prints
Description: Group show held at the Washington State Convention Center
City: Seattle
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: 93 Wishes for 94
Description: Group show held at the Steinbaum Krauss Gallery
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Through the Eyes of Women
Description: Group show held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Hills Art Center
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Gallery Artists
Description: Group show held at the T'Marra Gallery
City: Ann Arbor
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Ancestors Known and Unknown
Description: Group show held at the Art-in-General Gallery in Soho
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Urbanology: Artists Reflect Upon Urban Experience
Description: Group show held at the Margrove College
City: Detroit
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Mixed Media Collage
Description: The Cosby Show, WNBC-TV collage included on the set
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Notable Projects
Title: CEEDS Build a School Communitr Cas STudy in Tukwila
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding for the project was provided by Tools for Transformation, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Education, Tukwila School District
Title: CEEDS Messages for Young Leaders
Description: A Program for elementary and middle school students
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, American Planning Association
Title: Curriculum Transformation Project Seminar
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by the College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education, and the Department of American Ethnic Studies
Title: The Race Project
Description: Rountable on the Role of Race in Community Developement
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding Provided by the Aspen Institute
Title: Excellence in Architecture
Description: Assement of the UM Architecture Program with Linda N. Groat
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by UM Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching, UM College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UM Program on Conflict Management Alternatives
Title: Humanities in Action through the Media
Description: Public debate on the on the cultural values influencing suburban sprawl in Southeastern Michigan
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by UM College of Literature Science and the Arts, UM Office of the VP for Research, UM College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Title: The Urban Network -A Progam in Urban Design for Youth
Description: Curriculum, teacher development, evalutatios, publications
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by: the National Endowment for the Arts, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Friends of the Urban Network, UM Office of the Vice President for Research, UM Rackham Graduate School, UM Office of Minority Affairs, UM Program on Educational Opportunity, UM Doctoral Progam inArchitecture UM Summer Research Opportunity Program, UM College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Title: The Urban Network-Children's Perception and Use of Their Neighborhoods
Description: Empirical study of children's writings, drawings, and conversations
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by UM Office of the Vice President for Research, UM Urban and Regional Planning.
Title: Community Problem--Solving and Conflict Management in the United States and Costa Rica
Description: Participitory Action Research with Barry Checkoway (Principal Investigator)
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by UM Office of International Academic Affairs, UM Office of the Vice President for Research, UM Program on Conflict Managment Alternatives
Title: Un Intercambio Cultural Sobre el Ambiente Urbano
Description: Development and pilot of an Urban Studies curriculum
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by W.K. Kellogg Foundation and UM College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Title: CEEDS (Center for Environmental, Education, and Design Studies)
Description: Chair, Monthly Faculty Seminars, Co-editor, Working Paper Series, K-12 Program Development
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: Funding provided by the Office of Educational Partnerships, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the College of Education.
Title: Mithun-iversity Diversity Workshop
City: Seatle
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Notes: With Mithun Partners Inc.
Title: The Gainsborough #504
Description: Condominium Renovation
City: Seattle
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Title: Manufacturers Bank
Description: Co-facilitator with B. Checkoway, focus groups with Neighborhood organizations and Bank
City: Detroit
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Title: Dumas Residence
Description: Condominium Renovation
City: Ann Arbor
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Title: UM School of Nursing
Description: Interior Design Dean's Office and Associates Dean's Office
City: Ann Arbor
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Education
Institution: City College of New York
Department: Environmental Psycology Program
Degree: M.A. and Ph.d in Psychology, Master of Philosophy
Institution: Columbia University
Department: Graduate School of Architecture and Planning
Degree: Master of Architecture
Institution: Parsons School of Design
Department: Department of Interior Design
Notes: Transferred to Columbia University
Institution: University of Hartford
Department: Hartt College of Music
Degree: Bachelor of Music (French Horn)
Institution: Manhattan School of Music
Notes: Studied with Gunther Schuller, Transferred to Hartt College
Licensing
License: Licensed Architect in Washington, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Ohio
License: Certified Architect
Organization: NCARB
Professional Affiliations
Organization: American Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Notes: ACSA/AIA Teacher's Seminar, K-12 Design Education-held at the Cranbrook Academy of ARt in Michigan, seminar Co-chair with Professor Alan Feigenberg. Theme Session Co-chair with Professor Frances Bronet at the Los Angeles Annual Meeting. Wood Council Competition juror in Washington DC. Chair of Power and Sustainability with assistance from the UM Program on Conflict Management Alternatives at the Administrators Conference in Washington DC. Panelist and Facilitator at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Teacher's Seminar Sustainability and Design.
Organization: American Institute of Architects
Role: Fellow
Notes: Paper reviewer at the National Convention in New Orleans, 1997. Executive Committee Member on the Committee on the Environment, 1996-1998. ACSA Vice President and President Elect candidate at 1994. Copper Development Association Competition juror for "Altering hte Current" in New Orleans, published in Crit, November 1996.
Organization: National Architectural Accrediting Board
Role: Board Member, 1995-98; President, 1997-98, Chair, Member
Notes: As President Sitton coordinated revisions of 1998 Conditions and Procedures, initiated Strategic Planning Process, initiated Visiting team Consensus-Building Procedures. Chair of Accrediting teams at Ball STate University and Tuskegee University (1996); California College of the Arts, Pratt Institute, and Prairie View A&M University (1997); Universidad de Puerto Rico and Morgan State University (1999); University of Hawaii and Philadelphia University (2000). Member Accrediting Teams, Princeton University (1998) and Savannah College of Art and Design (1994).
Organization: American Psychological Association
Role: Educational Psychology Division
Organization: American Educational Research Association
Publications By
Title: Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society
Co-author: Giroux and Freire (eds.)
Publication: Critical Studies and Education and Culture Series
Publisher: Bergin and Garvey Publishers
City: Westport
Notes: Book was based on a three year evaluation of the Urban Network-a K-12 urban design program she founded while at the University of Michigan
Title: The Urban NEtwork: An Urban Design Program for Elementary Schools--An Instructional Portfolio
Publisher: UM College of Architecture and Urban Planning
City: Ann Arbor
Title: Learning through the Built Environment: An Ecological Approach to Child Development
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
City: New York
Notes: Review written in the Journal of Architectural Education, by Sandra Moore (Vol. 40, No. 4 Summer 1987, p. 31)
Title: Reinventing professional privelege as inclusitvity: A proposal for a sustainable praxis of architecture
Co-author: In Piotrowski and Robinson (eds)
Publication: The Discipline of Architecture
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis
Title: African American youth as actors in community change
Notes: Unpublished review paper commissioned by the Aspen Institute
Title: Children inhabiting a land of safety
Co-author: Ellin (ed)
Publication: Architecture of Fear
Page: pp. 241-251
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
City: New York
Title: Resisting patriarchal norms in professional education
Co-author: In Conway, Agrest, Weisman (eds)
Publication: The Sex or Architecture
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
City: New York
Notes: Book awarded AIA citation for excellence in International Book Publishing, Design/Theory Category
Title: Pedagogy of community-service learning
Co-author: In Galura, Howard, Waterhouse and Ross (eds)
Publication: Praxis III: Voices in Dialogue
Page: pp. 143-149
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
City: Ann Arbor
Title: Seeing the whole of the moon
Co-author: In Frankel, Lewis, Schoem and Zuniga (eds)
Publication: Multicultural Teaching in the University
Page: pp. 161-171
Publisher: Praeger Press
City: New York
Title: The progress of architecture
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Page: pp. 76-79
Date Published: October 01, 1993
Notes: Response and rebuttal published in Progressive Architecture in February 1994, pp 10-12.
Title: The contradictions of a tempered radical's thinking
Co-author: Howard (ed)
Publication: Praxis: A Faculty Casebook on Communitty-Service Learning
Page: pp. 151-162
Publisher: University of Michigan
City: Ann Arbor
Title: Egyptian norms, women's lives: A new form and content for housing
Co-author: El-Rafey, M. and Sutton, Arias (ed.)
Publication: The meaning and use of housing: International Perspectives, Approaches and their Applications
Page: pp. 515-538
Publisher: Avebury Publisher
City: Aldershot
Title: Power knowledge and the art of leadership
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Page: pp. 65-68
Date Published: May 01, 1992
Notes: Responses (1992, September) in Progressive Architecture, pp. 51-56
Title: Enabling children to map out a more equitable society
Publication: Children's Environments
Volume: 9
Issue: No. 1
Page: pp. 37-48
Title: Finding our voice in the dominant key
Co-author: Travs (ed.)
Publication: African American Architects in Current Practice
Page: pp. 13-15
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
City: New York
Notes: Reviews: Bond, J. Max (1992, June). In Architectural Record, pp. 60-61; Grant, Brad C. (1993, March). In Progressive Architecture, pp.111, 129; Feldman, Roberta M. (1993, November). In Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 117-119.
Title: Sterwardship education through ritual
Publication: Journal of the Liturgical Conference
Volume: 9
Issue: No. 2 Winter
Title: The human contribution to architectural space
Publication: Faith & Form
Volume: XIX
Issue: Spring
Page: pp. 17-20
Title: Architectural education: Should behavioral studies be integrated into the design studio?
Publication: Architectural Record
Page: pp. 43-47
Date Published: July 30, 1984
Publications About
Title: Multi-talented women to join hall of fame
Author: Woods J. A.
Publication: Ann Arbor News
Page: pp. 1, 3
City: Ann Arbor
Date Published: October 26, 1997
Title: A salute to Shaorn Sutton
Author: Arch ed File
Publication: ACSA News
Date Published: November 01, 1996
Title: Michigan Studies Association
Author: Harley, R.B. and McDowell, B
Publication: Michigan Women: Firsts and Founders Volume II
Title: From the president's office
Author: Widom, C., FAIA
Publication: AIArchitect
Volume: 2
Page: p. 2
Date Published: January 01, 1995
Title: Projects
Author: Fishetti, L.D.
Publication: Patterns for Head Start Facilities
Page: pp.17-37
Title: Designs on real change: UM architecture professor brings a wolrd view and startling new angles to the profession
Author: Gallagher, J.
Publication: Detroit Free Press
Issue: p. 5F
Date Published: October 17, 1994
Title: AIA sponsors first diversity conference
Author: Sullivan, A.C.
Publication: Architecture
Page: p. 27
Date Published: October 01, 1994
Title: AIA conventions hails changing profession in architecture
Author: Barreneche, R. and Bierman L.
Publication: Architecture
Page: p. 25
Date Published: July 01, 1994
Title: First annual P/A awards for architectural research
Author: Crosbie, M.J.
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Page: pp. 86-95
Date Published: July 01, 1994
Title: AIA (and P/A) in LA
Author: Branch, M.A.
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Page: p. 25
Date Published: June 01, 1994
Title: Spotlight on Sharon Sutton AIA
Author: unknown
Publication: Minorities and Women in Architecture Newsletter
Page: p. 4
Date Published: May 01, 1994
Title: Facing and issue
Author: Tetlow, K.
Publication: Interiors
Page: pp. 36-38
Date Published: June 01, 1993
Title: Lecture features Sutton as a guest speaker
Author: Lockwood C.
Publication: Rennselear Polytechnic
Page: p. 2
Date Published: April 28, 1993
Title: Nineteen faculty to be honored for teaching, research service, creativity
Author: University of Michigan
Publication: For the Faculty and Staff of the University of Michigan
Volume: 48
Issue: No 5
Page: pp. 1, 7-11
Date Published: October 05, 1991
Title: Sutton: Today's architects have more to contribute
Author: Kelly, K.
Publication: Starkville Daily News
Issue: p. 1, 10
Date Published: November 10, 1992
Title: The Urban Network
Author: Thomas, P.
Publication: APA Planning
Volume: 57
Issue: No. 3
Page: p. 13
Date Published: March 01, 1991
Title: Library shows 2 artists' work: Their different--but similar
Author: Cantu, J.C.
Publication: Ann Arbor News
Date Published: March 15, 1992
Title: Urban planning for beginners
Author: Lindgren, H.
Publication: Metropolis: The Urban Magazine of Architecture and Design
Page: p. 14
Date Published: November 01, 1992
Title: Why aren't more women teaching architecture?
Author: Landecker, H.
Publication: Architecture
Page: p. 23-25
Date Published: October 01, 1991
Title: Brains vs. blight
Author: Walsh-Sarnecki, P.
Publication: Ann Arbor News
Date Published: November 26, 1991
Title: Dexter Gallery stages very impressive print exhibition
Author: Cantu, J.C.
Publication: Ann Arbor News
Page: p. E5
Date Published: December 23, 1990
Title: Weavung the Urban Network
Author: unknown
Publication: The University of Michigan's Research News
Page: p. 2-7
Date Published: January 01, 1990
Notes: January-February edition
Title: The plight of minority architects
Author: Greer, N.R.
Publication: Architecture
Page: p. 51-71
Date Published: April 01, 1985
Title: Black women architects: A blueprint for success
Author: unknown
Publication: Ebony
Page: pp.52-60
Date Published: July 30, 1984
Title: Changing Schools through the arts: The power of an idea
Author: Remer, J.
Page: pp. 68, 71
Publisher: McGraw Hill
City: New York
Title: Built by Women: A Guide to Architectrue in the New York Area
Author: Brainard, Coblin, Nachtigal, Sarlis-Morfopoulos, and Yowell
Title: Architect builds esteem in others
Author: Hawkins, J.
Publication: Intelligencer Journal
Date Published: April 28, 1981
Title: American Portfolio: Six Major Artists
Author: Lunde, K.
Publisher: London Arts
City: Detroit
Notes: Sutton appeared in the introduction
Title: Architecture: A Design for Education
Author: Board of Education of the City of New York
Page: pp. 30-36
Publisher: Board of Education the City of New York
City: New York
Title: A street museum: Transforming a vacant lot into an expression of community concern
Author: Carnabucci, K.
Publication: Intelligencer Journal
Date Published: August 01, 1978
Title: Contextures
Author: Good-Bryant, L. and Phillips, M.S.
Page: pp. 22-23
Publisher: Just-above Midtown Gallery
City: New York
Title: 15 Outstanding NOMA Women
Author: Dowdell, Kimberly N.
Publication: NOMA Magazine
Issue: Fall 2007
Publisher: NOMA
Date Published: September 01, 2007
Url: www.noma.net/local/documents/FALL08MAGAZINE.pdf