Beth M Weinstein

Biography

Beth Weinstein is an architect whose scholarship and design practice focus on intersections between architectural and choreographic and other performance practices, ranging from the scale of the drawing board to scenographic environments, theater architecture, urban space and landscapes. Working within the severe climate and landscape of the Sonoran Desert, Weinstein’s work also connects to the utopian and environmental lineage of the American Southwest, exploring land art, water issues, and the systems that link these to the making of human scaled environments. Recent projects include Prone to Collapse, an immersive environment in which to experience projected imagery of conifer forest die-off (“collapse”); SHUTTLE: mobile desert laboratory, exploring aesthetic, political, cultural and environmental resonances of desert ecologies; and with her students, Occupy Public Space - a intervention in Tucson’s transit center communicating water issues information through spatial, material, thermal and graphic means. She serves on the editorial board of Theater and Performance Design, co-edited Ground|Water: the Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, and contributed chapters to Architecture as A Performing Art and The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. She has taught at Pratt, Parsons, Columbia, the école Spéciale d’Architecture, and is Associate Professor and Master of Architecture Program Chair at the University of Arizona, teaching design studios, environmental principles and building enclosure technology, and directs projects and seminars linking architecture and performance. 

Degrees

• Ph.D. Creative Arts: Installation and Performance
• University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
• Performing Spatial Labour: Rendering Sensible (In)Visibilities around Architectures of Internment
• M.Arch Architecture
• Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
• B.F.A. Interior Design
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
• Magna Cum Laude

Awards

• Académie d'Architecture Scholar in Residence
• Académie d'Architecture, Summer 2022
• Inclusive Leadership Certificate (ILC) Program
• University of Arizona, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Spring 2022
• AGM Universal Design Awards
• AGM (external jury), Fall 2021 (Award Finalist)
• 2021 Darryl B. Dobras Award for Excellence
• Dean, CAPLA, University of Arizona, Summer 2021
• AIA Design Excellence (Highest) Honor Award, Excellence in Overall Design
• AIA So Arizona, Spring 2021
• Capstone Distinguished Projects Awards
• External Capstone Award Jury, Spring 2021
• Artist in Residence
• Cité Internationale des Arts, Spring 2019
• Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, Spring 2018
• The Window, Paris, France, Spring 2018
• Bundanon Trust, Summer 2016
• Rose McCulloch Studio Residency
• University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts, Fall 2018
• Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Silver Medal
• Texas Tech University Chapter, Fall 2017
• Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship
• University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Summer 2016
• Associate Member of the Art, Social and Spatial Practice (ASSP) Cluster,
• Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Fall 2014
• Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research
• Harvard University, Summer 2014