Lois Weinthal

Professor Weinthal’s practice investigates the relationship between architecture, interiors, clothing and objects, resulting in works that take on an experimental nature. Her teaching explores these topics where theoretical discussions in seminars are put into practice in design studios. Her seminar teaching led to the publication, Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), which organizes the interior as a series of layers that surround the body. This anthology won the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Book Award in 2014. Additional publications include co-editor of After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design with Kent Kleinman and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), co-editor with Graeme Brooker on The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design (Berg Publishers, 2013), and co-editor with Jonathon Anderson on Digital Fabrication and Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure (Routledge, 2022). She is Co-editor of the journal, Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture. She has received grants from SSHRC, Graham Foundation, Fulbright, and DAAD and has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. She is the Graduate Program Director for the Master of Interior Design program, and was previously Chair of the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University.  Previous positions held include Director of the Interior Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design, Graduate Advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, Honorary Professor at the Glasgow School of Art, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University. She received her Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design.