Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and teacher. She earned her B.A. and Master of Architecture from Princeton University and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. Keller is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Easterling's contemporary writings address issues of urbanism, architecture, and organization as it relates to globalization.

Among her other books are Medium Design (Verso, 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), and Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005), which investigates well-known spatial products developed in precarious locations around the world. This book won Yale's Gustave Ranis Prize for the best book written by a faculty member in 2005. Her earlier book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999), applies network theory to the discussion of infrastructure development in America. 

Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call It Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of American suburbanization between 1934 and 1960. She lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing were included in the Venice Biennales of 2014 and 2018. In 2019 she was recognized as a United States Artist in Architecture and Design.

Her work has been widely published in journals such as Art Forum, Domus, Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, METALOCUS, and ANY.