Lisa D. Schrenk

Lisa D. Schrenk is Professor of Architectural History and a Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona, as well as former Education Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation. She received a B.A. from Macalester College with degrees in studio art and geography, a Master’s Degree in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.

Her core research focuses on international expositions and the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Book publications include Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair (University of Minnesota Press) and The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright (University of Chicago Press). She has curated exhibitions, including “Women in Architecture: The Legacy of the Bauhaus in the United States,” with members of the UA Women in Architecture Society, and served as a consultant for exhibitions at the National Building Museum and the Chicago Architectural Foundation. She has documented works of architecture in over 80 countries, including while traveling on Fulbright-Hays, NEH, and East-West Center programs and while teaching on two around-the-world Semester at Sea voyages. Examples of her photography have been exhibited and published in a variety of locations and available via ArtStor and SAHARA. She is co-founder of the global Institute for the Study of International Expositions (ISIE) and has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Architectural Historians and as President of the Chicago Society of Architectural Historians. Her academic work has been featured in the Chronicle for Higher Education.