Judith DiMaio is a licensed architect, renowned scholar, and educator whose work emphasizes the active, interdisciplinary collaboration of building design, technology, and history. Under her leadership, NYIT School of Architecture and Design was named by Architect magazine as one of the top four schools in the United States for excellence in building technology and construction. In 2013, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated DiMaio to its prestigious College of Fellows, a distinction shared by fewer than 4 percent of AIA’s 80,000 members.
Prior to joining New York Tech, she was an associate professor at Yale’s School of Architecture and director of Yale College’s Architecture program. She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at colleges and universities including Columbia, Cornell, Rhode Island School of Design, Rice University, and the University of Chicago; an invited lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford; and served as academic director of the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Program in Architecture for four years. DiMaio holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts in painting from Bennington College.
A specialist in 16th century Italian architecture, gardens, and painting, DiMaio is renowned for the depth of her knowledge, insight, and commitment to the primacy of architecture as artistic creation. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture by the American Academy in Rome in 1977, a Fulbright-Hays scholarship in 1979, and became the American Academy’s first Colin Rowe Resident in Design in 2009. She is a founding member of the board of trustees of Restoring Ancient Stabiae, a frequent juror for national and international design competitions, and a widely published author of essays on Italian art and architecture.
Recent Projects/Research
- Conference on Urban Design and the Legacy of Colin Rowe, Rome, Italy, 2014: Presented the lecture, “Rowe’s Roma Interrotta Text; the Lost and Unknown City, bits and Pieces” and led the walking tour, “In the Footsteps of Colin Rowe: Unexpected Places.”
- Invited Juror, Municipal Art Society of New York’s 2014 MASterworks Design Awards Program
- Panelist, “Women in Architecture,” National Arts Association, New York, NY
- Invited Juror, Zerofootprint Re-skinning Awards, Toronto, Canada
- As co-founder of eDomus Africa: Housing for Education: Schematic design for dormitories at Ashesi University, Accra, Ghana
Publications
- Contributor, Paesaggio Urbano, February 2011: “The Venice Biennale, 2010; Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong.”
- Contributor, Pocket Guides: City Secrets, Florence and Venice and the Towns of Italy, 2001. Editor, Robert Kahn; Publisher: The Little Book Room.
- Contributor, Pocket Guides: City Secrets, Rome, 2000. Editor, Robert Kahn; Publisher: The Little Book Room.
Honors and Awards
- 2013: Elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute of Architects (FAIA)
- 2013: Distinguished Achievement Award, New York Society of Architects
- 2009: First Colin Rowe Resident in Design, American Academy in Rome (RAAR ’09)
- 2002: Invited to testify to the National Planning Commission in Support of the WWII Memorial on the Mall, Washington, D.C.
- 1977-78: Rome Prize in Architecture, American Academy in Rome (FAAR ’78)
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- ARCH 401: Summer programs in India, Berlin, China, Israel, Italy, and the Netherlands
- ARCH 501/502: Thesis studio site, Castellammare di Stabiae, Italy