Jenny Lovell

BA University of Manchester, UK;
Diploma in Architecture, The Bartlett School, University College London, UK

Assistant Professor

Jenny Lovell trained at Manchester University and the Bartlett School, University College London, passing RIBA Part III with distinction in 1995.

For the past fourteen years Jenny Lovell has been critically engaged in the design, development and application of building envelope strategies in the US and the UK. Her work as both a practitioner and academic targets the surface where environmental, social and aesthetic potentials of buildings interface with our surroundings.

Before 2004, Lovell worked in London, first with Arup Associates, then with the award-winning design firms Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects and Allies and Morrison. Since then, Lovell has held a tenure track position at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture, where she teaches both design and technical courses, including “Building Synthesis,” the final required technical course for graduate students. Her seminar “Depth of Surface” explores new materials, assemblies and performance of building envelope in terms of pragmatic and poetic applications.

Further to the presentation of her paper “Building Synthesis: Practicing in Academia” at the 2007 ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) annual meeting, Lovell has been contracted by Princeton Architectural Press to publish a book as part of their “Design Brief” series: Building Envelope: ‘elements’ toward an integrated approach, due for issue in 2010.

She is a member of the Royal institute of British Architects and registered with the UK Architects Registration Board.