About Judy DiMaio

Judith DiMaio FAIA, RIBA, former Dean of the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design, is a registered architect and educator. DiMaio was previously an Associate Professor at Yale’s School of Architecture and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Yale College’s major in architecture. DiMaio has been a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous universities including Columbia, Cornell, the Rhode Island School of Design, Rice University, and the University of Chicago.

In 1979 she was the academic director of the University of Notre Dame Rome Program in Architecture. She oversaw the program for four years and continues to live in Rome. She has been an invited lecturer and critic at numerous universities including Oxford University at Magdalen College, Oxford.

DiMaio holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College. In 1977 DiMaio won the Rome Prize in Architecture and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome. She was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship in 1979.

In 2009 the American Academy invited her to be the first Colin Rowe Resident. Traditionally, the Academy invites prestigious architects to take up residency at the Academy in order to provide Academy fellows with access to noted architects and practitioners. Some of those invited previously include Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Frank Gehry, Sir James Stirling, Zaha Hadid, Henry Cobb and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberg.

She has served as a juror on numerous competitions including the AIA 2005 Honor Awards for Interior Design, the Institute of International Education Fulbright-Hayes program, the Skidmore Owings and Merrill Foundation Awards for the Educator Fellowship. Most recently she was a juror for the ZeroFootprint prize — the ZeroFootprint Foundation is a not-for-profit network dedicated to reducing ecological footprints and she juried the Shanghai Expo International Design Competition — Chinese Pavilion.

DiMaio is a founding member (2005) of the Board of Trustees for Restoring Ancient Stabia, USA, which is the American counterpart to Restoring Ancient Stabia, Italia. The organization’s mission is to extend the archeological parks of Herculaneum and Pompeii to the ancient Roman city of Stabia or present day Castellammare di Stabia, also destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. DiMaio was also a member of the board of trustees of the Van Alen Institute, a member of the board of trustees of Bennington College and a fellow of the Timothy Dwight College at Yale University. She is a member of the Century Association and the Harvard Club where she served on the House Committee.

Throughout the 1980s DiMaio was a senior designer at Kohn, Pedersen, Fox. As a private practitioner in New York, NY, she was commissioned by Yale Properties of Yale University to be part of the design team redeveloping downtown New Haven. Her design for Urban Outfitters, Yale’s client, is at Broadway and York Street in New Haven. Other special projects include a garden facade for the display of bronze reliefs, located in Rye, NY; a penthouse intervention on Riverside Drive in New York City. Other architectural designs include studies: for a civic structure at Seaside, Florida; a schematic design for a condominium complex in Perth, Australia; and, a dormitory feasibility study for the University of Kumasi in Ghana and the University of Bamako in Mali. Two guidebooks, City Streets, Rome (2000) and City Secret, Florence and Venice (2001) include numerous descriptions by DiMaio of buildings, paintings and Roman sites. Also, her competition entry for Bibliotheca Alexandria, a library complex in Alexandria, Egypt, was the focus of an essay in Colin Rowe’s book, As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays; Volume 111, Urbanistics.