Elizabeth Lovett

Headshot of a smiling Elizabeth Lovett with freckles and short brown cropped hair, sporting a black blazer with a white collared shirt and the top button unfastened

Lecturer

202A Addams
University of Pennsylvania
200 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6221

Elizabeth Lovett, RA is a licensed architect and principal of Lovett Keshet Studio, an architecture and research practice. Her focus lies in pushing the expressive and performative limits that constrain the materials and methodologies of construction. She has an expertise in historic and modern building practices, manifesting itself in both the theory and practice of architecture. She has worked as a project engineer for the A. Zahner Company, co-designing and overseeing the manufacture and on-site installation of complex facade systems. She also holds a U.S. patent on a roofing system for managing the flow of urban stormwater, which is currently in development. Elizabeth is a co-author of Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, published by Birkhauser and her drawings appear in The Function of Form by Farshid Moussavi.

 

Exhibitions

Manifestation of a Line: Sculpture & Drawings: Bok exhibition, Design Week Philadelphia

Discrete Curiosity: public sculpture, Johnson County Public Library, Lenexa Ks

Cube Box Rest, fabricator for Preston Scott Cohen, Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea

 

Office Hours
By appointment
Education

Bachelor of Arts, (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania, Major in Architecture
Master of Architecture (M.Arch I), Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Research Interests

Urban Stormwater: Managing flow rates rather than measuring captured water volume

Urban Stormwater: Disparities within urban neighborhoods triggered by urban planning, historic development, and infrastructure costs

Material Methodologies: Building beyond the planar geometries embedded within the manufacturing techniques of common building components.

Courses Taught

ARCH 2020: Design Fundamentals II

ARCH 3010: Design I

The Haussmannization of Paris- (the Barnes Foundation)

Selected Publications

Joints and Junctions. In Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, edited by Thomas Schroepfer. Basel: Birkhauser, 2011

The Function of Form. Farshid Moussavi, Cambridge: Actar, 2009