Lois Weinthal is Director of the BFA Interior Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design.  She was previously Associate Professor and co-developer of the Architectural Interior Design Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Weinthal’s projects focus on the relationship between architecture, interiors, clothing and objects, resulting in works that are linked through questions and curiosities and implemented though design projects that take on an experimental nature. She has received grants from the Graham Foundation, a Fulbright Award, and a DAAD award for residency in Berlin leading to the exhibit, Berlin: A Renovation of Postcards at the Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin.  Additional exhibitions include New York University and the Austin Museum of Art.  She curated Architecture Inside/Out at the Center for Architecture in New York City. Publications include a forthcoming article in the journal AD on the works of textile designer Petra Blaisse, a 2007-2008 article award by the JAE/ACSA titled: “House Lab: The House as Instigator of Full-Scale Constructions,” the MIT journal Thresholds and Canadian journal On Site.  Weinthal is co-organizer on the After Taste symposia and publication series. She studied architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Rhode Island School of Design.