Alison Fisher

Alison Fisher is the Harold and Margot Schiff Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Fisher specializes in alternative histories of modern architecture, urbanism, and design and has curated many exhibitions in these areas, including Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention (2011), The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (2014), and Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City (2019). Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Society of Architectural Historians, and she also teaches architectural history at Chicago-area universities, most recently as the Rhoades Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chicago.