She is a professor of architecture at the Cooper Union and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Yale Universities. She was a fellow at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1971–84. She has designed and built projects at various scales for which she has won numerous awards. In 1993, she created and directed Framing the City: Film, Video, and Urban Architecture at the Whitney Museum, as part of an approach to urban discourse she developed through film. She has written, produced, and directed The Making of an Avant-Garde, and has been awarded grants from NYSCA, the Graham Foundation, and the AIA. She has published four books, and her writings have been widely included in books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers, while her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums.