Penelope Dean

Penelope Dean is a scholar who studies contemporary architectural culture with an emphasis on the exchanges between architecture and the allied design fields—interior, industrial, graphic, environmental, and strategic design—from the mid-twentieth century onwards. Dean’s essays, book chapters, op-eds, and reviews cut across architectural history, theory, and criticism, combining a formal analysis of buildings, objects, drawings, photographs, renderings, and exhibition within their political-economic contexts and disciplinary histories. In addition to her writings, Dean is founding editor of Flat Out, an independent print magazine that enacts multiple genres of architectural criticism through fifteen recurring, fictitious characters.