Jennifer Bonner

Jennifer Bonner is Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Bonner founded MALL in 2009, a creative practice that stands for Mass Architectural Loopty Loops or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—an acronym with built-in flexibility.

Born in Alabama, Bonner is a recipient of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Emerging Voices Award (AIA/ Young Architects Forum), Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award and Next Progressives (Architect Magazine). Her creative work has been published in architectural trade publications including Architectural Review, Metropolis, Gray, Azure and Wallpaper*, as well as, more experimental journals including a+t, DAMN, PLAT, Offramp, Room One Thousand, Flat Out and MAS Context. She is the author of A Guide to the Dirty South: Atlanta, faculty editor of Platform: Still Life, and a guest editor for ART PAPERS special issue on architecture and design of Los Angeles. Bonner has exhibited work at the Royal Institute of British Architects, National Building Museum, WUHO gallery, HistoryMIAMI, Yve YANG gallery, pinkcomma gallery, Armstrong Gallery at Kent State), Yale Architecture Gallery, Istanbul Modern Museum, Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Bonner received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize for her project Assemblage of Twins. Her undergraduate thesis project, the Cedar Pavilion, was designed and constructed at the Rural Studio in Perry County, Alabama and received an AR Award for Emerging Architecture (2005).

Bonner was the first recipient of an annual teaching fellowship at Woodbury University in Los Angeles and held the position of TVSDesign Distinguished Studio Critic at Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she has also taught design studios and seminars at Auburn University, the Architectural Association, and Lund University. Bonner worked in the office of Foster + Partners in London and Istanbul on the Palace of Peace in Astana, Kazakhstan. Later as Project Architect at David Chipperfield Architects she worked on design proposals for Melnikov’s Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage in Moscow and the Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK.

Research Areas

• Environmental Systems
• Housing
• Public Art & Exhibition Design
• Representation
• Responsive Environments
• Sensory Media

Companies

• Associate Professor Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019)
• Director MALL (2009)
• Assistant Professor Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2015 — 2019)
• TVSDesign Distinguished Studio Critic Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture (2012 — 2015)
• Project Architect David Chipperfield Architects (2005 — 2006)
• Architectural Assistant Foster + Partners (2004 — 2005)

Education

• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Auburn University (1997 — 2002)
• Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2007 — 2009)