Nora Wendl

Nora Wendl is an essayist, artist, editor, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches studio and theory.

Wendl’s work, across scales and media, subverts the received narratives that underpin architectural historiography, engaging feminist archival practices to create essays, books, installations, photographs, and films that offer new forms and frameworks for historicizing the built and unbuilt environments. These works have been supported by the Graham Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, and National Trust for Historic Preservation, among other institutions. She has exhibited and published widely, and her most recent book, Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press, 2025), was shortlisted for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. From 2021–24, she was the Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Photo: Hyunju Blemel