Anne Marshall
Research/Focus Areas
  • Architectural history
  • Native American architecture and landscapes
  • Social and cultural dimensions of architecture
  • Architectural design
  • Urban and community design and regeneration
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • ARCH 385: History of Architecture I
  • ARCH 453: Architectural Design V
  • ARCH 454: Architectural Design VI
  • ARCH 554: Architectural Design VIII
  • ARCH 504: Identity and Place in Global Space
  • Arch J411/J511/AIST 411: Native American Architecture

Anne Marshall

College of Art & Architecture
Department of Architecture & Interior Design
Associate Professor

Home Town
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Campus Locations
  • Moscow
With UI Since
1996
Office: AAS 304
Phone: (208) 885-2891
Email: Anne Marshall
Mailing Address:
Department of Architecture & Interior Design, University of Idaho
PO Box 442451
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2451

Curriculum Vitae
http://www.caa.uidaho.edu/anne/
Anasazi Great Houses
  • Ph.D., Environmental Design and Planning (Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism), Arizona State University, in progress
  • Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
  • Bachelor of Architecture cum laude, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980

Anne Lawrason Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Idaho. She is a registered architect who has practiced professionally in various firms, including the Connecticut office of Pritzker-Prize winner Kevin Roche and her own office in Berkeley.

Her most recent research - published in two book chapters and presented at international conferences in Dubai, New York, Melbourne, and Oxford - examines architectures within contemporary Native American communities, with a focus on tribal museums and cultural centers. She is working on an edited book illuminating recent architecture in Native American communities.

She has also conducted research on the architecture and siting of great houses at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and presented her work more than 20 times as an invited speaker and as a conference participant. Her Chaco scholarship - supported by numerous grants from the Graham Foundation, the Idaho Humanities Council, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois and University of Idaho - has been the subject of three published book chapters and one journal article and book in process.

Professor Marshall teaches architectural history, architectural theory, architectural design, urban and community design, American Indian architecture, and a seminar entitled "Identity and Place in Global Space".


Selected Publications*
  • Marshall, Anne L., ed. Issues in Recent Native American Architecture (in progress).
  • Marshall, Anne L. “Constructing Tribal Architectures and Identities in Native American Museums and Cultural Centers.” In Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
  • Singh, Rana P.B., John McKim Malville, and Anne L. Marshall. “Death and Transformation at Gaya: Pilgrimage, Ancestors and the Sun.” In Pilgrimage: Sacred Landscapes and Self-Organized Complexity, J. M. Malville and R. K. Bhattacharya (ed.), Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts/ D. K. Printworld, New Delhi, India, 2009.
  • Marshall, Anne L. “Tradition and Tribal Nations: Constructing Native American Architectures and Identities. In Identity Politics and the Reinscription of Space (Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Papers Series), Nezar AlSayyad (ed.), International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley, 2008.
  • Marshall, Anne L. “The Siting of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon.” In Pueblo Bonito: Center of the Chacoan World, Jill Neitzel (ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2003.
  • Marshall, Anne L. “Tribal Borders and their Exclusion of Sacred Landscapes.” In Politics of Cartography (Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Papers Series), Nezar AlSayyad (ed.), International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley, 2002.
  • Marshall, Anne L., ed. Carme Pinos. School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1995.

Scholarship Projects

The Siting of Chacoan Great Houses  1989 - Present
In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Native American people constructed more than a dozen monumental stone buildings, known as great houses c. AD 850-1150. The central question of much of my research has been: Why were each of the great houses built where they were? To help document the great houses in their landscapes, I photographed and created QuickTime VRs—dynamic, digital panoramic images. I developed a web site with maps, plans, QuickTime VRs, and text introducing each outlying great house:


Designing Native American Museums and Cultural Centers 2004 - Present
Native American communities erect tribal museums and cultural centers whose hybrid architectures fuse traditional Native American forms and contemporary building practices. The focus of my research is to examine processes by which tribal members negotiate the design of tribal museums and cultural centers with architects and landscape architects who are typically from outside of the community.

Issues in Recent Native American Architecture 2006 - Present

Very little has been written on Native American architecture in North America, and most of it is about ancient architecture from an archaeological point of view. Very few architects or architectural historians have conducted critical research on Native American architecture of the recent past. In response to this lacuna, I organized two conference sessions to illuminate issues in Native American architecture. I am editing and organizing papers from these sessions and will publish them in an edited book on recent scholarship on 20th and 21st century Native American architecture.

Outreach and Community Engagement Projects

Selected Awards & Honors
  • Faculty Service Learning Fellow, University of Idaho, 2008
  • Faculty advisor to second place winners of the national Leading Edge Student Design Competition for a sustainable arts magnet school in Los Angeles, 2002
  • Graham Foundation Fellow, Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Arts, “Chacoan Great Houses,” 2000
  • Idaho Humanities Council Fellow, Idaho Humanities Council, “Chacoan Great Houses,” 2000
  • Fine and Applied Arts Special Award, University of Illinois, “Siting of Anasazi Structures in the Landscape,” 1995

*See curriculum vitae for a full list of publications, scholarship activities, community engagement projects and awards.