Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urban planner, writer, and educator.

She began her studies at Princeton University and studied architecture and history at Parsons New School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. She teaches architecture at Yale University. She has also written extensively on urban planning and architecture.

Her latest book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), analyzes infrastructure as a determining factor in a set of hidden rules that "structure the space around us." One of her earlier books, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to the discussion of American infrastructure and regional development patterns. Easterling is the author of Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built, a book on urban planning.

In 2008 she was one of 100 designers chosen by prominent Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron on commission for a villa construction project, organized by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in Ordos, Mongolia, as part of a cultural district built by tycoon Cai Jiang.