Sarah Rafson is the Associate Director of Public Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is an architectural writer, editor, and curator. In 2016, she founded Point Line Projects, an editorial and curatorial agency for architecture and design, where she collaborates on books for publishers such as Yale University Press, Rizzoli, Monacelli Press, Phaidon, and the Museum of Modern Art. She was the 2017-18 Ann Kalla Visiting Professor and later Special Faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. She is a co-curator of the traveling exhibition, Now What?! Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in American Architecture since 1968. She was a founding board member of ArchiteXX and editor of sub_teXXt, its online journal. Her writing is published in the Journal of Architectural Education, The Architect’s Newspaper, Praxis, Constructs (Yale), Storyboard (Carnegie Museum of Art), Metropolis, and Pioneering Women of American Architecture (Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation).
Some clips of her writing are linked below.
Call to Action: ArchiteXX, Now What?!, and Creating New Futures, Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 74, 2020 – Issue 2: Othering, with Lori Brown, Andrea J. Merrett, Roberta Washington
Challenging the Canon – Rewriting History, panel with Jude Barber, Sarah Rafson, Madhavi Desai and Karen Burns, chaired by Julie Willis. Transformations: Actions on Equity Symposium, University of Melbourne School of Design, November 15, 2019
“Advertisements for Architecture: Bernard Tschumi,” in Bad Architectures. Praxis, Issue 15, October 2019
Advocating and Agitating: Women-Led Organizations, panel with Susan King, Kathryn Anthony, Smitha Vasan, and Veselka Ivanovic, organized and moderated by Sarah Rafson as a part of Now What?! Chicago, Co-Prosperity Sphere, September 13, 2019
Advocacy, Activism, and American Architecture since 1968, Alan H. Rider Distinguished Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, April 2, 2018. With special guest Carol Crandall.
Susan Abel Maxman, Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation, 2018
On Chicago’s CARYATIDS. Lumpen Radio Chicago, 105.5 FM, Buildings on Air, August 5, 2017
Sarah Rafson 