Stephanie is an architect, artist and educator, currently working as a project architect at Lyons.

Over eight weeks of the Fellowship, Pahnis will develop her proposed research project, Enduring Cultural Matter, at the American Academy in Rome.

Stephanie’s project will focus on building material (matter), its links to cultural memory and the intersection with public space and identity in architecture.  Stephanie is interested in contemporary design processes, cultural and historical memory embedded in material applications and the design potential of adaptive reuse strategies, maintenance practices, local material uses and waste.