Constance Vale

Constance Vale is the Chair of Undergraduate Architecture and Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a licensed architect and co-founder of AVV A, a collaborative practice that bridges research and built work. Vale’s creative work and scholarship explore intersections between architecture, art, theater, urbanism, and emerging technology. Her writing and design practice examine how artificial intelligence and digital tools are transforming architectural theory and methods of representation.

Historically, interior space and textiles have been marginalized within architectural discourse, often overlooked in favor of exterior form and structure. The historical association of interiors and textiles with “women’s work” has contributed to their relative neglect by architectural historians and preservationists. Constance's proposed project foregrounds interiors and textiles as vital components of architectural discourse. Using photographs and 3D scans of stone fortifications and intimate interior spaces, she will create diaphanous architectural interventions. During the day, sunlight will emphasize the facade, while at night, artificial light will reveal interior depths—producing an atmospheric inversion of visibility. The result will be a spectrum of spatial conditions: opaque and translucent, hard and soft, public and private.