2024 Winner, IIDA/IDECF Educator Diversity Award
Education
Ph.D. Architecture, University of Wisconsin
Courses Taught
- Design Studio Year 3, Undergraduate
- Design Studio Year 4, Undergraduate
- Social and Behavioral Aspects of Interior Architecture
- Race, Space and Design (Elective)
Research
- Community Engaged Design Research
- African American Vernacular Place Types
selected Publications
- 2024 Kutty, A. “Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race in the Interior Design Studio: A Pedagogical Exploration” Journal of Interior Design, Special Issue: ‘It is not Interior Decoration’: ‘Passing’ and ‘Covering’, Exclusion, and Expanding the Margin of Interiors Discourse.
- 2024 Kutty, A. & D’souza, N. “Culture, Race and Marginalization: The Case of African American Storefront Churches in Central City Milwaukee”. In D’Silva, K and Fernando N. (Eds). Built Form and Culture: The Theoretical Legacy of Amos Rapoport. Taylor and Francis
- 2023 Kutty, A. “Milwaukee’s African American Storefront Churches: “Makeshifting” and Spatial Resilience in Urban America” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. University of California, Berkely. Vol.35 No.1 (Fall 2023)
- 2023 D’souza, N. & Kutty, A. “Spaces that Foster and Support Creativity and Collaboration in Art + Design Incubators”, The International Journal of Design and Society, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 2020 Kutty, A. “Sanctuaries Along Streets Security, Social Intimacy and Identity in the Space of the Storefront Church” Journal of Interior Design, Volume 45, Issue 1, PP 53-66
- 2020 Alexandra, C., Groshong, L., Stanis,S., Kutty, A. “Place-Making Practices for Park Improvements in a Low-Income African American Neighborhood” Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, Volume 38, No 3, PP 93-111
- 2019 Kutty, A. “African American Churches” Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, Online
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