May 23, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Frist Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)

Moderator:

Sigrid Adriaenssens
Director, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Panelists:

Ellen Dunham-Jones ’80 *83
Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Urban Design Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Anthony Consoli ’75
University Architect, University of Maryland, Baltimore (retired); Board Director, Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Therese Kelly ’95
Principal, Therese Kelly Design Studio

Cecily King ’10
Founder, Kipling Development; Associate Professor, Real Estate Development, Columbia University

Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University

Participants:

Sigrid Adriaenssens
Sigrid Adriaenssens’ research interests lie in the mechanics of large‐span structural surfaces under extreme loading and under construction. She has been working on a comprehensive framework with advanced analytical formulations, numerical form finding and optimization approaches, fluid/structure interaction, and machine learning models and algorithms to open new avenues for accelerated discoveries and automated optimal designs. In 2025, she was appointed director of Princeton’s Keller Center. She also directs the Form Finding Lab at Princeton, where she teaches courses on non‐linear mechanics of solids and slender structures, and the integration of engineering and the arts. She previously held the Francqui Chair (Ghent University, Belgium, 2024) and the Myron Goldsmith Visiting Chair at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (2023). She was named a Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow and elected vice president of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures.

Ellen Dunham-Jones ’80 *83
Ellen Dunham-Jones hosts the “Redesigning Cities” podcast from the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, where she has taught since 2000. An authority on sustainable suburban redevelopment, Dunham-Jones maintains a unique database of more than 2,500 suburban retrofits and is co-author with June Williamson of two award-winning books: “Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs” (2009) and “Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges” (2021). Their documentation of retrofits and regreenings of aging auto-dominated properties and corridors into resilient, healthy and community-serving places won them the 2025 Seaside Prize and has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, PBS, BBC and other media sources. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 800,000 views, and she is consistently recognized in Planetizen’s crowdsourced survey as one of the 100 most influential urbanists.

Anthony Consoli ’75
Anthony Consoli co-founded Future Architects Resources in 2012, which introduces young people to careers in architecture and design. He is a member of the board for the Baltimore Architecture Foundation whose mission is encouraging people to explore Baltimore architecture, including its history, heritage and design innovations. Consoli served as president of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2016-17 after many years on its Design Awards Committee. From 2013 to 2024, he was university architect for the University of Maryland, Baltimore. There, he channeled his passions for sustainability, landscape design and public art into a variety of projects that made this intensively urban campus more people-centric with green spaces, wildlife sanctuaries and outdoor galleries featuring selections from 1807: An Art and Literary Journal.

Therese Kelly ’95
Therese Kelly is an architect and social practice artist committed to creating a vibrant public realm. A member of the American Institute of Architects and co-founder of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, she creates innovative tools in her projects to engage, build consensus, and empower social and environmental resilience. She has designed award-winning Los Angeles landscapes, activated forgotten infrastructural spaces and built climate awareness through site-specific projects along the California coast. She has also served as chair of the Santa Monica Architectural Review Board, championing walkable public spaces and affordable housing. She has taught at several design schools, including Otis, UCLA and the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm. After Princeton, Kelly earned her MArch at UCLA as a Regents’ Fellow. Her work has been published and exhibited widely, including at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Cecily King ’10
Cecily King is the founder of Kipling Development, a real estate development and consulting firm committed to projects that create housing equity and access in major U.S. urban centers. She is also an associate professor of professional practice at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches courses on real estate development, community and economic development, and urban revitalization strategy. Throughout her real estate career, King has held roles in the public, private and nonprofit sectors that have given her a diverse perspective. Her professional focus is leveraging real estate as a tool in the social and economic repair and growth of communities of color. She specializes in public-private partnerships, real estate finance, community redevelopment strategies and real estate entrepreneurship. After receiving her BSE from Princeton, King earned an M.S. in real estate development from Columbia University and an MEng in structural engineering from Lehigh University.