Jodi La Coe
Associate Professor
jlacoe@marywood.edu
School of Architecture
570-348-6211
Cntr for Architectural Studies 233
Courses taught:
Hist & Thry of Arch & Interior Arch I
ARCH-128
Design Studio III
ARCH-210
Design Studio V
ARCH-310
Design Studio VIII
ARCH-420
Design Studio X
ARCH-460
Independent Study
ARCH-499
Hist&Theory of Arch & Int. Arch I
ARCH-528
Int Architecture Studio VIII
IARC-620A
Jodi La Coe, interim Director of the School of Architecture, is a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She earned a PhD in Architecture and Design Research from the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech and a Master of Architecture in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University. Her research interests bridge the art and science of historical visualizations of space 鈥 the connections, interactions, and inspirations informing the relationship between the architectural imagination and cultural histories. La Coe teaches in the History and Theory of Architecture and Interior Architecture sequence and advanced design studios. Under her leadership, her talented students won First Prize in the 2021 Attached Housing Division and Second Prize in the 2023 Retrofit Housing Division of the annual US Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon Design Challenge.
Presentations and Publications
Feuerstein, Marcia, Paola Zellner Bassett, and Jodi La Coe. Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe. (London: Lund Humphries, 2022).
La Coe, Jodi and Marcia Feuerstein. 鈥淐amouflage after the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy and Gy枚rgy Kepes,鈥 Architectures of Hiding, Rana Abughannam, 脡m茅lie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali, and Federica Goffi, eds., Routledge.
La Coe, Jodi. 鈥淚nside Out and Outside In: Projecting the Idea of the [Urban] Theater,鈥 in Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Gregory Marinic, ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), 197鈥203.
La Coe, Jodi. 鈥淧rojecting the Eccentric Theater: Representations of the Synaesthetic Experience,鈥 in Theatres of Architectural Imagination, Lisa Landrum, Louise Pelletier, and Sam Ridgway, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 60鈥70.
Mindrup, Matthew and Jodi La Coe, 鈥淔resh Eyes: The Practice of the Remote at the Bauhaus,鈥 in Remote Practices: Architecture in Proximity, Matthew Mindrup and Lilian Chee, eds., (London: Lund Humphries, 2022), 74鈥80.
La Coe, Jodi. 鈥淧erception and Apperception in L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy鈥檚 Mechanical Eccentric,鈥 in SenseFACTORY, Dietmar Lupfer ed. (Munich: Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH, 2019), stamped limited edition, unpaginated.
La Coe, Jodi. 鈥淒reaming the Fourth Dimension: L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy鈥檚 Inversions,鈥 Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity. Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi, and Jodi La Coe, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), 169鈥183.
La Coe, Jodi. 鈥淨uadrature: The Joining of Truth and Illusion in the Interior Architecture of Andrea Pozzo,鈥 Interior Architecture Theory Reader, Gregory Marinic, ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 19鈥27.