Jacklynn N Niemiec

Jacklynn Niemiec is a Registered Architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. She specializes in architectural representation and teaches in the foundation year design studios. Her research on design pedagogy topics has investigated the role of process in design education, both in the studio and curriculum development. Her recent applied research includes a survey of existing graphic models and their adequacy in translating spatial data for indoor navigation and wayfinding. Her work seeks non-traditional tools to explore movement and navigation in the built environment. In an interdisciplinary collaboration titled Variable Space, Professor Niemiec tested the use of motion capture to visualize physical response to spatial language. She teaches Architectural Visualization and Representation, Design Studios, and an interdisciplinary Game Level Design course in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. She received her undergraduate degree in Architecture at Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania.