Constance ValeConstance Vale is a registered architect and educator. Her research office, The Factory of Smoke & Mirrors, engages interdisciplinary intersections between architecture, art, theater, urban design, and emerging technology. In her writing and dsign work, she interrogates how computational images and artificial intelligence are effectively changing architecture theory, design methods, construction, and modes of sociopolitical action. Vale is chair of undergraduate architecture and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the editor and a co-author with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of Mute Icons--and Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Actar, 2021). She is also the winner of the On Olive Local Emerging Architect Competition, for which she is building a residence in Estudio Tatiana Bilbao's St. Louis Masterplan. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and her work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum and published in the Los Angeles Times, Archinect, and CLOG. Vale earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MArch from Yale School of Architecture, where she received the Moulton Andrus Award for Excellence in Art and Architecture. Read More Read Less