Sarah Page

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2023
Bachelor of Architecture, Auburn University, 2019

Sarah Page teaches design studios and seminars related to materials and ecology. Her work emphasizes multi-scalar methods of analysis across variable forms of human habitation. Her scholarly work and research focus on developing place-based rural spatial theory to advance sustainable forms of rural community development. Her current project, Global Cotton Communities, explores the regional formation of rural communities in relation to the development of the cotton industry. The work examines infrastructural and spatial typologies concurrently utilizing critical cartography, spatial documentation and design ethnography through fieldwork in Brazil, India and the United States.

Before joining the faculty at Auburn, Page taught urban planning and design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), focusing on regional theory in relation to cartographic methods and urban design research methodologies. She also conducted research at the GSD’s Office for Urbanization, where she led a multi-year design-research project conducting scenario planning for regional climate adaptation in coastal Massachusetts. The project worked with local stakeholders to examine governance and financial systems in relation to community engagement and infrastructure development. Prior to her work at Harvard, Page developed projects with several distinguished design practices across the Southeastern United States.

Page completed her Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she received the Druker Traveling Fellowship and the Award for Academic Excellence in Urban Design.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Developing spatial theory through place-based investigations involving cartographic and ethnographic methods
Sustainable rural regional development facilitated by multi-disciplinary design strategies
Material relationships to place through social and ecological infrastructure