Avigail Sachs

Avigail Sachs teaches landscape and architectural history and theory and studies the design professions in the United States. Her current project, tentatively titled Atelier TVA: Designers in the Great Depression, will critically analyze the impact of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s design policies on the careers of the architects and landscape architects who worked for it. Her book, Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics and Science, 1937-1973, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press. This study examines the development of the concept of “environmental design” in architecture and its role in the modernization of American architecture. Her 2009 essay, Marketing through Research: William Caudill and Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) in: Journal of Architecture 14/1, was selected for inclusion in a special issue anthology comprised of the Journal of Architecture’s most important articles of the decade.