Amy Catania Kulper is an architect, theorist, and curator whose teaching and research focus on the intersections of history, theory, and criticism with design. From 2022 to 2026, she joined the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, as Professor of Architecture and Director of the School. At the Bartlett, she recruited five new faculty members with expertise in spatial and climate justice as part of the Just Environments Cluster, the first initiative of its kind in UK higher education in the built environment. After cultivating the industry partner, Iris Ceramica, she established the Just Environments Incubator – seed funding for faculty working on collaborative research and design research projects that foreground epistemic justice. Under her leadership, the Bartlett returned to its #1 ranking globally in the QS World Rankings for Architecture and the Built Environment, and #1 ranking in the UK according to The Guardian League Table.
In 2023-24, Kulper and her collaborators PROPS.Supply designed an installation, Accoutrorama, featured in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Eighty-six participants were selected representing ten countries, and over a half million visitors viewed the exhibition.
Previously, she was Department Head at RISD Architecture (the Rhode Island School of Design) where she was actively engaged in the project of making architectural pedagogy and practice more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. Kulper’s writings are published in Log, The Journal of Architecture, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Candide, The Journal of Architectural Education, and numerous edited volumes. Kulper has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education where she has acted as the Design Editor for six years, receiving the ACSA Distinguished Service Award for her work on the journal.
From 2007 to 2017, she was an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she was a four-time recipient of the Donna M. Salzer award for teaching excellence. In the 2010-11 academic year, she served as the Steelcase Research Professor as a recipient of a Michigan Faculty Fellowship at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Humanities.