Joy Knoblauch

Joy Knoblauch is an associate professor of architecture teaching history and theory of architecture as an exploration of architecture’s engagement with politics and science. She is a member of the Design Health faculty research and teaching group at Taubman College. Her first book was The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America, an examination of efforts to govern behavior through the environment. She is currently writing a history of ergonomics that documents moments of resistance to technologies of work, including cockpits, open office landscapes, and digital interfaces. She is also part of a team using Gen4Viz tools as a depth psychology practice to learn about what quiet spaces for work and healing look like.

Knoblauch earned a Fulbright Award as in Philosophy and Public Health from Fulbright Canada and The Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in 2015. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and the Centre Canadien d’Architecture. She earned a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture, a Master of Environmental Design from the Yale University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.