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AA Dip (London); March (Harv); MCP (Penn) Recorded in 1969 under her married name of DE Souza Santos as member of the CPIA of address 3rd Floor, 40 Loop Street, Cape Town, Cape Province. Adèle Naudé Santos is an architect and planner whose career combines professional practice, research and teaching. Her work is widely known for design excellence. Ms. Santos has won international design competitions, published work in journals world-wide, and has worked in cultures as diverse as Japan, Africa and the United States. Citation for SAIA honourary membership: Ms. Santos takes a holistic approach to architecture, supported by her belief that people need more from the built environment than accommodation of functional requirements. Her architecture seeks to create environments that satisfy the human spirit. Her belief that architecture be socially, as well as contextually, responsible can be seen in all of her projects, and particularly in her design of housing, a subject to which she has devoted much recent professional and academic effort. In her more than thirty years of practice she has been involved in the construction of hundreds of dwelling units on four continents Ms. Santos is a leader who is able to guide group efforts. She has developed communication styles that convey complex architectural ideas in a manner easily understood by clients and community groups, enabling her to cross cultural barriers. Her academic career includes professorships within the graduate programs of Harvard, Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as Chairman of the Department of Architecture and the University of California, where she was founding dean of the School of Architecture at UCSD. She was the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT from 2004-2014, and is currently a Professor of Architecture and Planning at MIT. Adèle Naudé Santos received her architectural degree from the Architectural Association in London and holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Adèle Naudé Santos is an American architect and urban designer focused on low-income housing, campus architecture, and socially conscious design. She is principal architect of Santos Prescott and Associates, based in San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts. She served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2014. She became a Fellow of American Institute of Architects in 1996. Early life Born in South Africa, Santos holds an architectural degree from the Architectural Association in London, a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Masters of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Some of her early work included being part of the design team who worked on Euston Station in London and work on a low-income housing project in Paris. She served as a project architect in Montreal for Expo 67. Academic career Her academic career includes positions at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rice University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. She was the founding Dean of the new School of Architecture at University of California San Diego. In 2013, Santos was instrumental in creating a partnership between the Centre for Advanced Urbanism at MIT and the American Institute of Architects Decade of Design initiative to link design and public health through research initiatives. Notable projects
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