Tess Clancy

Design Fellow
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Office: 3176 / Liberty Research Annex

Tess Clancy is the 2024-2026 Architecture Design Fellow (formerly William Muschenheim Fellow) and a designer and educator based between the US and Rome, Italy. Her research and design work lies at the intersection between architectural history, memory of place, and political power structures, specifically the complex role of public monuments and architecture’s capacity to augment and subvert the embedded power of a monument. She is particularly concerned with the potential for experimental representation to visualize and synthesize such intersections and augmentations.

Her master’s thesis (Eroding the Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy on Richmond’s Monument Ave.) won the Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award for best M.Arch thesis. In 2023 she received the Robert James Eidlitz travel fellowship to fund an on-going project Architectures Against Facism.

Her work has been published in the Cornell Journal of Architecture (Fear, Sp. 2020) and Hyphen Journal (Penn State, 2023). She has taught studios and visual representation courses at Cornell AAP and PSU’s Stuckeman School, and worked for the New York firm, New Affiliates and the Rome based office, Labics.

She holds a BFA from Bryn Mawr College in Growth and Structure of Cities, and MArch from Cornell AAP.

Courses

ARCH 322, Section 1
Winter 2025
Instructors: Yojairo Lomeli, Tess Clancy, Michael Kennedy, Francesca Mavaracchio, Athar Mufreh, Jono Sturt
ARCH 516, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Julia McMorrough, Angela Cho, Tess Clancy, Francesca Mavaracchio
ARCH 412, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Adam Fure, Tess Clancy