Tess Clancy is a designer and educator based between the US and Rome, Italy. She is currently the 2024-2026 Architecture (Muschenheim) Design Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, pursuing the project Documenting Demolition: Experimental Preservation & Memorialization of Detroit’s Demolition Program. Her work has been published in the Cornell Journal of Architecture and Hyphen Journal. She has taught studios and visual representation courses at Taubman College, Cornell AAP and PSU’s Stuckeman School, and worked professionally 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 an MArch from Cornell AAP (2019).
Her work and research deal with the complex embedded power of monuments and the intersection between architectural history, memory of place, and political power structures. She received her Bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in Growth and Structure of Cities, and her professional degree (M.Arch) from Cornell AAP in 2019. Her thesis titled Erdoding the Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy on Richmond's Monument Ave. was awarded the Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award.
Links:
Faculty Profile, Taubman College
Contact:
tess@officeanomalous.com / tesscl@umich.edu
