Julie Kress has taught architectural studios and digital representation seminars at the University of Tennessee since Fall 2021, including as the Tennessee Architecture Fellow (2023鈥�2025). Her research examines how emergent computational media recalibrate architectural representation, authorship, labor, and perception. Across her teaching and research, she works with animation, simulation, AI, VR, machine-driven drawing, film, and physical prototyping, treating media as an active agent in architectural thinking, aesthetics, and materiality. During her time at UTK, she has curated exhibitions including “AI-TBD鈥� and 鈥淒isorderly Constructs鈥�, published work in 鈥淚mpossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture,” and presented at conferences including ACADIA and NCBDS. Her current trajectory focuses on animation as an architectural methodology, exploring intersecting themes of reviving analog histories, entangling nature and technology, and curating critical conversations. Prior to joining UTK, Julie was a teaching fellow at the Rhode Island 乐播传媒, where she also earned her M.Arch and received the Super Jury Thesis Award. She previously practiced as an exhibition and digital experience designer at IKD, contributing to exhibitions featured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the MIT Museum.
Education
Master of Architecture, Rhode Island 乐播传媒
Expertise + Interests
- Animation
- Representation
- Digital Design