She was previously William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of Architecture at Rice University (2010-19), based in Houston, USA and has also taught at Princeton University, the University of Kentucky, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Florida in addition to Rice and Harvard GSD. She lectures throughout the USA and abroad. She serves as a critic of architecture and urban design.

She is Design Principal and Co-Founder of WW Architecture. Prior to founding WW Architecture, she worked with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Peter Eisenman in New York; and Michael Graves in Princeton, NJ.

Sarah Whiting received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Her research is interdisciplinary with the build environment at its core. An expert in architectural theory and urbanism, she has particular interests in architecture’s relationship with politics, economics, and society, and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life. Her work has been published in leading journals and collections, and she is the Founding Editor of Point: Essays in Architecture (Princeton UP, 2011-), a book series aimed at shaping contemporary discussions in architecture and urbanism.