She co-directed the Program for Urban Processes at the University of the Arts Berlin, was a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and is now an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington. Her academic work has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in journals such as the Journal of Urban History, AAFiles, Informationen zur Modernen Stadtgeschichte, Topos, Bauwelt, Places, and various anthologies. She recently published Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas (coauthored with Ralph Stern); she is currently compiling an anthology on comparative urbanization processes in the American West (with Ralph Stern) and completing a book on conceptualizations of the natural environment, national identity, and architectural education in Germany (forthcoming from Bauhaus University Press).