FACULTY

Karolina Kawiaka received her AB in Fine Art, Art History and Architecture from Smith College in 1988, and her Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1994. She interned at Michael Singer Studio from 1992-1998. Kawiaka is a registered architect and the principal of the Karolina Kawiaka Studio in Vermont. Her firm's work includes building, landscape and furniture design focusing on sustainable design and infrastructure, as well as drawings and installations. Current work includes projects in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York.

She teaches Architecture, Drawing and Senior Seminar courses in the Studio Art Department, as well as classes at the Thayer School of Engineering and Environmental Studies Departments in Sustainability, and is a faculty advisor to the student architecture club Arc@D.

Kawiaka has been an invited critic at Yale Graduate University School of Architecture, University of Texas Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Rhode Island School of Design, Bennington College, Mississippi State University School of Architecture, University of Arkansas Department of Landscape Architecture, Norwich University School of Architecture, Yestermorrow Design-Build School and Marlboro College, among others. Her work has been published recently in Fine Homebuilding Magazine, and Design New England Magazine, and is in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art. She was nominated for a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Award and is the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship, the Dartmouth College Student Assembly Profiles in Excellence Teaching Award, the Dartmouth College Distinguished Lecturer Award, and the two Vermont Arts Council Creation Grants.