Female, US

Associated with the firms network

Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), Architects; Warnecke, John Carl, and Associates, Architects


Professional History

Editor, Industrial Design (ID) magazine, New York, NY; Associate Director of Planning, John Carl Warnecke and Associates, c. 1976; Founding Partner, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Architects, New York, NY, 1976-1984; President/ Senior Partner in Charge of Programming and Planning, Kohn Pedersen Fox Conway Associates, Incorporated, Interior Architects and Planning Consultants, New York, NY, 1984-1991.

Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Dean, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1991-94. Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, c. 2010; at Penn, Conway taught courses in urban design, professional practice and real estate development.

Board Member, National Parks Mid-Atlantic Council, Lynchburg, VA; Board Member, International Design Conference, Aspen, CO; Board Member, The Parks Council, New York, New York; Board Member, Saint Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Brooklyn, NY; Panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY; Peer Reviewer for GSA/NEA Design Excellence program.

"Designer of the Year Award," Interiors magazine, 1987.

Education

B.A., English Literature, New York University; M.A., English Literature, New York University; M.S., Urban Planning, Columbia University, New York, NY; Loeb Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1986-1987;

Personal

Books included Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design (1982), Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement (1990), and The Sex of Architecture (1996). S. Torre, P. Conway and F. Halsband, "Opening up the Academy: Three Women Educators Discuss Their Plans," Oculus, 02/1991, p. 8-10; (interview with Conway and two others.) Visiting Scholar, the American Academy in Rome, Fall 1997. Email contact:


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