Will and Nan Clarkson
Visiting Chair
Michelle Addington
Prior to teaching at Yale, Michelle Addington taught at Harvard University for ten years. Her background includes work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where she developed structural data for composite materials and designed components for unmanned spacecraft. Addington spent a decade as a process design, power plant engineer, and manufacturing supervisor at DuPont. She researches discrete systems and technology transfer and serves as an adviser on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the DOE and AIA. Her writings on energy, environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in numerous books and journals and she recently co-authored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions.
Past Clarkson Visiting Chairs
- 2008 Kenneth Frampton
- 2007 Joan Ockman
- 2006 Anthony Vidler
- 2005 Glenn Murcutt
- 2004 Peter Zumthor
- 2004 Michael Kwartler
- 2003 Lars Lerup
- 2003 Gerrit-Jan Knaap
- 2001 Alan Artibise
- 2000 Mark Wigley
- 2000 Michael Storper
- 1999 K. Michael Hayes
- 1998 Robert Yaro
- 1996 Sanford Kwinter
- 1995 Patsy Healey
- 1994 Daniel Hoffman
- 1993 M. Christine Boyer
- 1992 Alberto Perez-Gomez
- 1991 John Forester
- 1990 Marco Frascari
The Clarkson Visiting Chair is an endowed visiting position awarded semiannually to a distinguished scholar or professional in the disciplines of architecture, planning, and design. This award is in recognition of excellence in the pursuit of scholarship and professional application within these disciplines and is made possible by the generous support of Will and Nan Clarkson.
