AIA BALTIMORE IS CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS DEC. 24, 2024 – JAN. 1, 2025.
×She is currently tenured Associate Professor of Architecture Urban Design at Morgan State University, where she led the Undergraduate Design Department and the Morgan Internationalization of Education Task Force. She has taught architecture, urban design, historic preservation and urban heritage management at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Kirchner’s research and practice focus on the (trans)formative role of water in City Design, Urban Regeneration and Redevelopment. She is the Middle East Area Editor for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, Editorial Member of the Journal of Arabian Studies, and Desk Reviewer for ICOMOS on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture selected Dr. Kirchner as Area Coordinator for the Arabian Peninsula and she has chaired two cycles of the Kenneth F. Brown Culture and Architecture Design Award. She is Co-Chairing AIA Baltimore’s Equity Committee and has led the Leadership Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in 2019-2020. She is currently also serving as Board of Trustee Member and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Interfaith Partnership for the Chesapeake.