Sarah Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms (architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is, in turn, formed. In her writing, her teaching, and her practice, Whiting focuses on architecture’s public audience and how architecture can engage that collective subject. She has been Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University since January 2010; she taught previously at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Kentucky, IIT, and the University of Florida. Whiting received her BA from Yale University, her MArch from Princeton, and her PhD from MIT. Her writing and editing has been published in numerous magazines and books, ranging from ANY to Wired. Whiting co-founded WW with her partner, Ron Witte, in 1999. Some of their projects include the Lavenda-Escobar House in Houston, the master plan for St. Stephens Church and School in Houston, the Kaihui Business Center in Changsha, China, and the Golden House in Princeton, NJ.