Diane Lewis is an internationally engaged New York architect and is Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She was the recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome in 1976 and since then she has taught and lectured at, among others, the Guggenheim Museum, the Pratt Graduate School of Architecture, the Drawing Center, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Berlin's Technical University.