Mónica Ponce de León is an educator and award-winning architect. She is the dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, and served as dean at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 2008–2015. Prior to that, she was a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. A recipient of the National Design Award for Architecture from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Ponce de León co-founded Office dA in 1991, and in 2011 started her own design practice, MPdL Studio, with offices in New York, Boston, and Ann Arbor. Her work is known for its innovative use of digital technology, tempered by a sensitive attention to materiality and space. Ponce de León has received numerous awards, including twelve Progressive Architecture Awards, two ID awards, and the American Institute of Architects/Committee on the Environment (AIA/COTE) Top Ten Green Project Award. Most recently, she was the co-curator of the US Pavilion, entitled The Architectural Imagination, at the 2016 Architectural Biennale.