Mireille Roddier

Mireille Roddier is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Women's & Gender Studies. Her current research looks at the potential of vernacular forms and practices to regulate the ever-growing energy consumption of the built environment towards both climate change mitigation and social well-being. Her interdisciplinary approach intersects life cycle assessments of building metabolisms (energy and material consumption), ecological economic theories of degrowth, and ecofeminist discourses on care, maintenance, and climate-specific know-how. This work, which finds origins in her study of rural laundry houses published as Lavoirs: Washhouses of Rural France (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), was instigated by a recent fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and developed during a 2023-24 fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities.