Assistant Professor, Design

Thérèse Tierney’s research operates at the intersection of new media and the built environment by leveraging emergent technologies for the public benefit. She completed her PhD in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in new media at the University of California Berkeley. During 2006, she was a doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory studying computational systems.

Tierney has taught at the University of California Berkeley and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. While at Berkeley, Tierney was an active member of Kenneth Goldberg’s BCNM and Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium, including participation in public events, research collaborations, and scholarly meetings. Prior to teaching, Tierney worked as a practicing architect in San Francisco, where she founded tt_studio, an applied design intelligence group concerned with formulating new paradigms that merge research, innovation and practice.

She is a contributing editor for World Architecture online journal, the author of several publications including, Abstract Space : Beneath the Media Surface(Routledge, 2007), co-editor of Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) and essays in AD: Architectural Design “Collective Intelligence” and Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology.

Personal URL http://www.theresetierney.net

Center for New Media http://cnm.berkeley.edu

World Architecture http://www.worldarchitecture.org