Julie Kress is a designer, educator, and animation enthusiast. She is a Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design, teaching architectural studio’s and seminars in digital representation. Prior to joining UTK, she completed her M.Arch at Rhode Island School of Design, where she developed her love of digital craft and was also the recipient of the Super Jury Thesis Award for the project, “Framed Familiarity”.
Her work focuses on how to critically engage digital media within the context of architecture, aesthetics, and materiality. This has taken the form of speculative drawings, 3D animations, simulations, and VR environments. Professionally she has worked as an architectural designer in Philadelphia and an exhibition/digital experience designer for the Boston firm IKD, contributing to projects at the Boston MFA and the MIT Museum.
Julie Kress is a designer, educator, and animation enthusiast. She is a Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design, teaching architectural studio’s and seminars in digital representation. Prior to joining UTK, she completed her M.Arch at Rhode Island School of Design, where she developed her love of digital craft and was also the recipient of the Super Jury Thesis Award for the project, “Framed Familiarity”.
Her work focuses on how to critically engage digital media within the context of architecture, aesthetics, and materiality. This has taken the form of speculative drawings, 3D animations, simulations, and virtual reality. Professionally she has worked as an architectural designer in Philadelphia and an exhibition/digital experience designer for the Boston firm IKD, contributing to projects at the Boston MFA and the MIT Museum.
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