Barbara Kenda

Barbara Kenda is an architect, author, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research explores the history and theory of architecture as well as current and future issues of our built environment and health. She focuses on the integration of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, health, and other sciences to support preventive medicine, to create healthy buildings and cities, and to improve people's lives.

She has taught architecture at Virginia Tech, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Barbara has also served as a director of education at The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment and has held other positions as a scholar and architect. She has organized international conferences such as “Academia Eolia Revisited” in Costozza, Italy, and has lectured and presented her research worldwide at Harvard GSD, UC Berkeley, and elsewhere.