Teaching Areas

  • Affordable Housing
  • Architectural and Urban Design
  • Urbanism

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Curriculum Vitae

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Sharon Haar

Professor of Architecture

Sharon Haar, FAIA, NOMA is a Professor of Architecture at Taubman College. Her research spans topics that include the history of architectural practices devoted to social activism, equitable housing and urban design, and university campuses. Haar’s publications include: The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago and Schools for Cities: Urban Strategies. Her articles and book reviews appear in journals including the Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansArchitect’s Newspaper, and Architectural Design. Her recent book chapters appear in: The Urban Ecologies ReaderEmbodied UtopiasShanghai Transforming and On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites. She has presented her research in conferences and lectures across the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Haar is active at a national level as a member of the Board of the Architects Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Institute of Architects, and as the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in the 2022-2023 academic year. She is the recipient of numerous grants from institutions including the Graham Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Fannie Mae Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and American Architecture Foundation. She is also the former Reviews Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education.

Haar has taught at Parsons School of Design in New York and at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was professor of architecture and the Associate Dean for Research at the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts. She served as the Architecture Program Chair at Taubman College from 2014 through 2019. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and her Master of Architecture from Princeton University.