The Pompano Beach Public Library and Cultural Center opened in January 2018 in Broward County, Florida. Mónica Ponce de León served as the design architect for the project. (Image courtesy Mónica Ponce de León)
Mónica Ponce de León, AIA, NCARB, is the dean of Princeton University School of Architecture in Princeton, New Jersey. She is founder and principal of MPdL Studio, which has offices in New York, Boston and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ponce de León specializes in many scales and typologies, and she focuses on design integration, craft, detailing and precision. She is also a pioneer in the application of robotic technology to building fabrication and in architecture education.
She will present a lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier
Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of
the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.
Ponce de León is a Venezuelan American, and in 2007, she became the first Hispanic
architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum. She has also received the Academic Award in Architecture
from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she was named as a USA Target
Fellow in Architecture and Design from United States Artists and was selected to The
Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices program.
Her work has received a dozen Progressive Architecture (PA) Awards, several awards
from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and numerous citations. She was also
named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design in recognition of her
contributions to American art and architecture.
Ponce de León previously served as dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture
and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and as professor at
the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This is the Lewis Architects Engineers Lecture.
The school is pursuing continuing education credits for this lecture through the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.
For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu.
