Ife Vanable

Ife Vanable

Assistant Professor

Ife Salema Vanable is an architect, historian, and theorist who directs i/van/able, a Bronx-based architectural workshop and think tank that produces theoretical, speculative, and physical interventions that defy prevailing notions of type, taste and form. This work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), recognized by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Ife holds professional and post-professional degrees in architecture from Cornell and Princeton Universities and has studied at the Architectural Association in London and the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies (now Ardhi University) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ife was the inaugural KPF Visiting Scholar at Yale University’s School of Architecture and a PhD candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). Her scholarly work asks questions of and seeks to unearth complex and seemingly banal relationships between the design of architecture, law, and public policy, the performance of domesticity and respectability, and the politics, aesthetics, and materiality of the making of home. She has received numerous awards, prizes, and fellowships, including a History and Theory Prize from Princeton University, a Columbia University Buell Center Fellowship, and an inaugural Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) Prize.

Ife’s writing has been published in the Avery Review and she is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Black Production and the Space of the University. Ife has taught at The Cooper Union, Columbia University GSAPP, and Yale University’s School of Architecture.

Education
BArch, Cornell University
MArch, Princeton University

Courses

3302
Spring 2024
Tall Tales
Ife Vanable
3302
Fall 2022
Tall Tales
Ife Vanable
3302
Fall 2021
Tall Tales
Ife Vanable