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ARCHITEKTUR + DESIGN + KUNST
Jennifer Harmon is a leading architect whose practice is informed by her diverse interests in art, design, natural phenomena and economics. As an architectural designer and educator her work has been heavily influenced by her previous years of experience within the graphic design/advertising industry where she produced branding and graphic design strategies.
She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at both Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University and at Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan. During her time at Taubman College, she wrote and taught many studio based courses, drawing courses and seminars which focused specifically on the role of economics and branding within architecture. Her research sought to broaden the questions that were introduced in her courses and revealed relationships between industrialization, semiotics, branding, and cultural influences within architecture.
Jennifer Harmon graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and Studio Art from the University of North Florida in 1994 later completing her Master’s Degree in Architecture with distinction from the University of Michigan in 2005. She was the recipient of the James Jeas and Taubman Fellowships and was awarded the 2005 Thesis Award. Among her achievements, she was awarded the inaugural Graham Foundation Fellowship for Architecture at MacDowell in 2010. In 2014 she was awarded Research on the City Grant at the University of Michigan.
Jennifer, a registered and listed member of the Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg, currently lives and practices as an architect in Germany. (Natürlich spricht sie fließend Deutsch.) In her free time, she continues to investigate her intellectual interests through producing artwork.