Julia Warren is a senior in the Architectural Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh and is pursuing a Bachelor of Philosophy degree through the University Honors College. She was a participant in the New York City Field Studies Program through the Office of Undergraduate Research during the spring of 2013 and was a Brackenridge Fellow during the summer of 2013. She has served as a teaching assistant for Approaches to the Built Environment and Perspective Drawing and has been involved with Plant to Plate, a student-run organization that maintains a vegetable garden on campus. She enjoys volunteering with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and spending time in its parks.
Julia will be presenting her paper "The Nature of the High Line: A Jacobsian Perspective on New York's 'Park in the Sky'" at HAAARCH!!! 2014.