1999 married Robert Niess
1958 born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA

Education
1981 Master of Architecture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, USA

1980 Bachelor of Architecture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, USA

1978 3 month European Study Abroad Program with the College of Architecture, Va. Tech.

1975 Diploma, Robinson High School, Springfield VA, USA

Professional Experience

1984-1988 Freelance employee with Bangert Jansen Scholz Schultes Architekten, Berlin, Germany

1984 Freelance employee with Ingeborg Kuhler Architektin, Berlin, Germany

1983 Freelance employee with Gerd Neumann Architekt, Berlin, Germany Employee at Elektrowatt Ingenieurunternehmung AG, Zürich, Switzerland

1981 Employee at Wallstead, Kassimer, Tanssy & Iddig, Attorneys at Law, Springfield, Va. USA

1978 Intern with Karl Fleig, Architekt, Zürich Switzerland

Independent Practice
1989 Registered Architect by the Chamber of Architects Berlin
Registration Nr. 04355

1989 Elected a member of the Bund Deutsche Architekten

1988 Founding of the Architectural Practice of Chestnutt_Niess Architekten, Berlin

Other Professional Activities
since 1999 Member of the Professional Women's Advisory Council of the Minister of Urban Development Berlin, Germany

since 1992 Frequently engaged as jury member for architectural competitions and Prizes, among others:

BDA Prize 2003 Schlewig-Holstein, Germany

BDA Prize 2002 Bremen, Germany

Extension for the Federal Ministry of Publik Health, Berlin, Germany

Ozianum Museum of Ocean-Sciences, Stralsund, Germany

Museum for Victums of Soviet Internment, Sachsenhausen, Germany

Restoration of the Berlin State Library and new construction of the Reading Hall, Berlin, Germany

1991-1995 Member of the Stadtforum Berlin, an intermediary advisory congress for the Minister of Urban Development, Berlin, Germany

Honorary Positions
since 2000 Member of the Aedes East International Forum for contemporary Architecture

since1996 Member of the Architecture Prize Berlin Advancement Society

since1995 Member of the German Architecture Center, Berlin Advancement Society

1989-1995 Member of the Bund Deutsche Architekten (BDA), Berlin Board of Directors

Teaching Experience (as of 1995)
sinceSS 2005 Prof. in specialism architecture on the college of technology in Stuttgart, Germany

WS-SS/2003-04 Guest Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin, -Weissensee, Germany

2003 Charrét design-workshop in Berlin for the European Study Abroad Program with Prof. Lynn Song, College of Architecture, Miami University Ohio, USA

2001 Assistant teaching position for the Seminar "Urban Design und Urban Planning" with Prof. Axel Busch, at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany

2000 Assistant teaching position for the Seminar "Tendencies of the Postmodern in Urban Design" with Prof. Axel Busch, at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany

2000 Guest critic at the IFHP Urban Planning Summer School at the German Center for Architecture Berlin, Germany

2000 Guest critic with Prof. Ingrid Goetz at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany

since1996 Annual Internship program in Berlin, with the College of Architecture Va. Tech,
1995 Guest workshop instructor at the Va. Tech Center for European Studies in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland

Selected Lectures (as of 1997)
2002 "The Cultural Implication of Building in Historic Context" and Podiums member in the framework of the lecture series
"Political Field: Architecture" jointly organized by the Brandenburg Center for Political Education and the Brandenburg Ministry of Urban Development, Housing and Transit, in Potsdam, Germany

2002 Workshop director "Address Office", in the framework of events at the AIT-Stand during the trade fair Orgatec, Cologne, Germany

2001 Podiums member in the framework of the seminar series
"Competitions. Competition? Competitions!" organized by the Chamber of Architects Berlin, Germany

2001 "Weiterbauen" in the framework of the prize award for
"Outstanding Professional Accomplishment Award"
Va. Tech College of Architecture, Blacksburg, Va. USA

2000 "Chestnutt_Niess and the architecture of continuity"
lecture series "Simply - Difficult" at the Technical Trade School Potsdam, Germany

2000 "The Rediscovery of the Alexanderplatz Train station" in the framework of the design project "Revitalizing the Dortmund Main Station"
University of Dortmund, Germany

2000 "The Architecture of re-building" in the framework of the seminar "Program, Context, Form" at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany

2000 Podiums member in the framework of the lecture series
"New Politics of Building" organized by the Chamber of Architects Berlin, Germany

1999 "C_N Architekten" in the framework of the lecture series
"Bauwelten", initiated and organized by students at the Technical Trade School Hildesheim, Holzminden, Germany

1998 "Space of Language - Language in Space" (Writers and Architects in discussion) in the framework of the literaturWERKstadt, Berlin, Germany

1997 "Building with the Existing Substance" at the Technical Trade School Lausitz, Cottbus, Germany

Clubinsider
Insider in the Aedes East Internarinales Forum for contemporary architecture

Insider in the Fördervereins Architekturpreis Berlin

Insider in the Fördervereins Bundesstiftung Baukultur