Katherine J. Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer who teaches architectural history and theory as well as design. She received her B.Arch. from the University of Tennessee and worked as an architect in Knoxville, Providence, and Washington, D.C. She received her Master in Architectural History from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has teaching experience at the University of Michigan and the University of Miami. Her research focuses on the intersection of architectural practice, technology, and pedagogy, and her book Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture (Ashgate, 2014) frames these topics within late 19th-century British architectural practice and publication. She has received research funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Huntington Library, the Institute for Historical Research at the University College London, and Winterthur Library, among others. Her current research includes construction failure and new materials in late Victorian Britain, the development of the architectural construction drawing, and scaling architecture and the miniature.
Education
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee
Master of Architectural History, University of Virginia
Ph.D. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise & Interests
- Architecture and Technology
- Late Victorian British Architecture
- Architectural Drawing