Stacy Scott

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Design and the Built Environment, Clemson University, 2023
Master of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
Bachelor of English Literature, Andrews University, 2012

Stacy Hope Scott’s research examines how architecture mediates recognition, aspiration, belonging and domestic life, with particular attention to suburban landscapes, Caribbean diasporic interiors and the cultural meanings embedded in ordinary spaces.

Scott’s scholarship develops the concept of proxy architecture to describe objects, interiors and spatial practices that stand in for desires, identities or forms of belonging that architecture cannot fully secure. Her research combines architectural theory, visual and spatial analysis, material culture studies and vernacular architectural history. Her writing has appeared in Critical Productive and the proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Her teaching spans architectural theory, design studio, housing, representation and research methods. She approaches design as a cultural and ethical practice, encouraging students to examine how architecture is produced through social expectations, inherited narratives and everyday acts of occupation.

Scott is co-founder of Recess & Theory, a research and design practice that moves between architectural speculation, cultural inquiry and built work. Her project “Field Frame” received First Prize in the Mitchelville Heritage Trail Design Competition. Her additional honors include the Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Student Medal and selection as a Built Environment Deans Advancing Change Fellow.

Prior to joining Auburn, Scott taught at Hampton University, the University of Virginia and Clemson University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Architectural Theory
Domesticity and Housing
Suburban Landscapes
Caribbean and Diasporic Architecture
Interiority and Material Culture
Recognition and Misrecognition
Adaptive Spatial Systems
Architectural Representation