Alexandra Quantrill

Alexandra Quantrill is a historian of architecture and the environment. Her scholarship concerns intersections between technology, aesthetics, energy, and political economy in the making of the built world. Her current book manuscript explores how women advocated for electrification in interwar Britain by encompassing discourses on modern design, technical training, domestic and industrial labor, and the politics of infrastructure and environment to craft a modern culture of electricity. This research was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. Her other publications have concerned techniques of environmental management, the architecture of finance, and the aesthetics of technology. Quantrill received the Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship for Writing on the Environment from MacDowell, as well as fellowships from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Getty Research Institute. She has published in Architectural Theory Review, Grey Room, and the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians. She has taught courses on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture at Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Ph.D., Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2017

M.Arch., Princeton University, 2005