She presented the case study “Subtraction” in the workshop Mine the city - With logistics to circular metabolisms at the 3rd Holcim Forum 2010 on “” held in Mexico City. She was a further author on the Holcim Foundation Awards 2014 Gold winner Poreform: Water absorptive surface and subterranean basin, Las Vegas, NV, USA, a water absorptive surface and subterranean basin that captures rain runoff and adds over 75,000 megalitres (20 billion gallons) to the city’s water supply capacity.

She is an architect, writer and academic. Her books include Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (Verso, 2021) which inverts an emphasis on object and figure to prompt innovative thought about both spatial and non-spatial problems and Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), which examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity.

Keller Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking. Her MANY project, projected global commons for facilitating migration through an exchange of needs, was exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research and writing on the floor comprised one of the elements in Rem Koolhaas’s Elements exhibition for the 2014 Venice Biennale.

She is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home: The House that Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc/DVD history of American suburbia from 1934–60. She has published web installations including: Extrastatecraft, Wildcards: a Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. The journals to which she has contributed include Domus, Artforum, Grey Room, Cabinet, Volume, Assemblage, e-flux, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, and ANY.

She studied architecture at Princeton University and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.