Sarah Whiting is the William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of the Rice School of Architecture. As a teacher, writer, and designer, her work revolves around architecture’s catalytic relationship to politics, economics, and society, focusing especially on the modern subject (individual as well as collective) and the way that this subject affects and is affected by architecture and the city. She is particularly interested in the nature of public life as it is currently being reformulated in the buildings and urbanisms of the 21st century. In addition to writing and teaching, she is a partner, along with Ron Witte, of WW Architecture, based in Houston, Texas.