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Avigail Sachs

Associate Professor

School of Architecture, School of Landscape Architecture

Avigail Sachs teaches landscape and architectural history and theory and studies the design professions in the United States. Her current project, The Garden in the Machine: Planning, Landscape and Architecture in the Tennessee Valley Authority, is currently under review. Her book, Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics and Science in Postwar America, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2018. This study examines the development of the concept of “environmental design” in architecture and its role in the modernization of American architecture. This book was recognized with an Award of Excellence by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) in 2019.

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Ph.D. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
M.Sc. in Architecture Studies, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997
B.Arch. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 1995

Society of Architectural Historians

ARC 212: History and Theory of Architecture IIGlobal survey of architecture and urbanism since 1750
ARC 425/525: The Tennessee Valley AuthoritySeminar on the history of the TVA architecture and design
LAR 581: Landscape Architecture: Histories and Theories IGlobal survey of landscape architecture and environmental design from Antiquity to the late 1800s
LAR 584: Landscape Architecture: Histories and Theories IISeminar on landscape planning and design in the 20^th century
ARC 501: Introduction to the Built EnvironmentSeminar on central ideas and knowledge in architectural discourse

History and Theory of Architectural Practice and Education
History of Modern Architecture
Architecture and Landscape Architecture in a Global Perspective

James Johnson Dudley Faculty Scholar, 2015-2017College of Architecture and Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Tennessee Humanities Center Fellow, 2014-2015