Daisy Ames

Daisy Ames is a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture where she teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia and is the founding principal of Studio Ames, an architectural design and research practice based in New York City. Her education in anthropology and the history of art inform her design sensibility focused on living spaces, climate change and spatial composition.

The practice has been recognized with the Young Architects Award from The Architect’s Newspaper and as a winner of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Her published articles and representations reflect a body of research on domesticity and the environment.

Ames is also a member of the faculty at Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture where she teaches design studios.