Deborah Berke

Deborah Berke
Born	1954
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize
Practice	Deborah Berke & Partners Architects Yale School of Architecture

Deborah Berke (born 1954) is an American architect and academic. She is the founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, a New York City-based design firm. Berke has served as an adjunct professor of architectural design at Yale University since 1987; as of July 2016 she became the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, making her the first woman to head the university's School of Architecture.

Berke received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has a bachelor's degree in both fine art and architecture. She received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2005.

In 2012, she became the first Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize laureate.

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