Tess Clancy is a designer and educator based between the US and Italy and is a current Teaching Professor of Architecture at Penn State’s Stuckeman School. Before joining the Stuckeman faculty, she worked as a designer for the Rome based architecture firm, Labics, and was a visiting Critic at Cornell in Rome. Her work and research deal with the complex embedded power of monuments and the intersection between architectural history, memory of place, and political power structures. She received her Bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in Growth and Structure of Cities, and her professional degree (M.Arch) from Cornell AAP in December 2018. Her thesis titled Erdoding the Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy on Richmond's Monument Ave. was awarded the Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award and was published in part in issue 11 of the Cornell Journal of Architecture (Fear, Sp. 2020).
After completing her degree, Clancy helped organize the 2019 Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium Trash Talks: Design for the end of Material as we know it, and also served as a Teaching Associate for French architect Philippe Rahm's spring 2019 Masterclass at Cornell titled History of Architecture: A realist and environmental approach to urban, landscape and architecture design history. She was a 2019 Teaching Associate for Cornell's Introduction to Architecture program and has also worked for the New York-based firm New Affiliates.
Cornell in Rome, Foundations Program
tess@officeanomalous.com / tjc6406@psu.edu
