CV


Devin Jernigan
Philadelphia, PA and New Haven, CT
devin (dot) jernigan (at) gmail (dot) com

CURRENT


Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University

EDUCATION


2022-Present Yale University
  PhD in Architecture, History and Theory track. Candidacy reached in April, 2025.
  American Traveling Circus Space
2011 Princeton University
  Master of Architecture -- Thesis Professor: Elizabeth Diller; Thesis Advisor: Axel Kilian
2009 University of Cincinnati
  Bachelor's of Science, Architecture -- Cum Laude with Honors


AWARDS


2025 HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
Ca' D'Zan, Historical Architectural Research Report
2025 MacMillan International Conference Travel Grant
To present at the 1st European Circus History Conference
2025 American Historical Association Travel Grant
To present at the 2025 American Historical Association annual meeting.
2024 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention - HABS/NPS Heritage Documents Program(HDP)/The Atheneum of Philadelphia/AIA
Parsons Family Concessions Tent. Baraboo, Wisconsin. LOC Link (Collection Item: HABS WI-166). Special thanks to the Circus World Museum, Peter Shrake and Jennifer Cronk
2024 John F. Enders Research Grant, Yale University
Gollmar Brothers Circus Financial Ledgers research at Circus World Museum Archive
2023 Circus & Allied Arts Collection Fellowship, Illinois State University, Milner Special Circus Colletions Library
Ringling Brothers Circus Business and Financial records
2023 Conference Travel Grant, Yale University
Circus Historical Society Annual Meeting presentation: "Making a 1920s-era Circus Concessions Tent"
2017 - 2018 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  Fellowship in Architecture
2016 Memorials for the Future Competition, Semi-Finalist - The National Park Service (NPS) and the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) with the Van Alen Institute
Cultur-Altar


ACADEMIC


2024-Present Yale University, Teaching Fellow
  Fall 2024 - ARCH 345: "Civic Art, An Introduction to Urban Design" with Professors Alan Plattus and Ife Vanable; Spring 2025 - ARCH 3012: "Architecture and Modernity: Sites and Spaces" with Professor Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
2018-2019 Montana State University, Associate Teaching Professor
  Fall 2018 – Arch 151: “Introduction to Architectural Design” and Arch 355: “Seattle Public Library.” Spring 2019 – Arch 254: “Butte mining museum and ceramics center” and Arch 356: “Mystifying structures & Primitive machines”
2015 University of Pennsylvania, Visual Studies Workshop
  Three class workshop on using ZBrush for Architecture, including: developing Levels of Detail (LoD) based on scale and formal characteristics created on discretized surfaces
2014 University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer with Francois Roche
  M.Arch I Core Studio: “Massive Gangrene”
2013 University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer with Francois Roche and Stephan Heinrich
  Post-professional M.Arch II Studio: “Surrealist Museum Seoul”
2011-2012 China Academy of Art, Visiting Professor, invited by Dean Wang Shu
  Year-long Undergraduate Thesis Architecture Design Studios
2010 Princeton University, Assistant Instructor for Lindy Roy
  Undergraduate Architecture Design Studio: “Introduction to Architectural Design”
Final Review Critic Montana State University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, China Academy of Art, Princeton University, University of Cincinnati


PRESENTATIONS / TALKS


2025 Freaktopia: Scenographic mediation of the liminal space between town and the circus
  Skenographia: Rethinking Design. A Graduate Student Conference at Yale University, Comparative Literature Department.
2025 Ricketts’ Journey to America, The transformation of English circuses into American Big Tops
  1st European Circus History Conference. The Cinema Museum. London, England.
2025 Mapping and Analyzing the Nomadism of the Gollmar Brother Circus, From 1891-1916
  American Historical Association, 2025 Annual Convention, New York, NY. Presenter.
2024 Ricketts’ Philadelphia Circus: The Beginning of an American Circus Architecture
  29th Annual James A. Barnes Graduate History Conference at Temple University
2023 Making a 1920 Big Top
  New England Society of Architectural Historians, Student Symposium
2023 Making a 1920s-era Circus Concessions Tent
  Circus Historical Society Annual Meeting
2018 Montana State University, Faculty Dialogues: Devin Jernigan
  The MSU SoA Faculty Dialogues lecture series, Fall 2018
2017 Akademie Schloss Solitude, The Rat House, a dream
  Biographies and the Production of Space: Lecture and panel discussion
2011 China Academy of Art
  Faciality: Form and Identity in the Facade
2009 sg2009 : Smart Geometry Conference, Computing New York City’s waste production
  Collaboration with Jenny Sabin


PUBLICATIONS


2023 1920 Circus Concessions Tent, an Exhibition
  North Gallery (Exhibitions Book), Vol. 6, Yale University, School of Architecture Pressing
2018 ‘twas All in My Head
  Schlosspost (Akademie Schloss Solitude)
2018 The Air Loom Machine
  Schlosspost (Akademie Schloss Solitude)
2011 Intellectual Algorithmic Property
Princeton University SoA Workbook
2009 Waste in NYC project by Devin Jernigan
  Published in “Meander, Variegating Architecture” by Ferda Kolatan and Jenny Sabin


EXHIBITIONS


2023 Winter 1920 Traveling Circus Tent
  North Gallery at Yale School of Architecture
2019 Winter Paradoxical Supports of Architecture
  Front Gallery at Montana State University
2018 Spring The Rat House
  Cabinet at Akademie Schloss Solitude
2018 Winter Architecture of an Other Kind
  Cabinet at Akademie Schloss Solitude
2018 Fall The Rat House details
  Group Exhibition “When a Wave Rolls Out and the Next Has Not Yet Broken”
2017 Summer The Rat House drawings
  Studio 26 at Akademie Schloss Solitude


PROFESSIONAL


2018-2022 The OLIN Studio, Philadelphia, PA
  Digital Design Coordinator: Workflow development for implementing Revit specifically for highly complex Landscape Architecture projects. Including developing idiosyncratic workflows, custom Families, and Python scripts
2016-2017 Cox, Graae and Spack Architects, Washington, DC
  Design and project management for the Washington, DC Palisades Parks and Recreation center renovation and expansion
2011-2012 LYCS Architecture, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
  Design Director
various since 2008 New–territories / R&Sie... / M4, Paris, France and Bangkok, Thailand
  Various collaborations: high–end residence, contemporary art museum, Venice Biennale exhibition, FRAC Orleans algorithms, and film prop production
2007/2008 Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC, New York, NY
  Multiple high-profile, large-scale design competitions in China and Taiwan
2006 Jack Brand Construction, Cincinnati, OH
  Fine carpentry on a variety of houses with Master carpenter Mark Merrill