Jean Pike
Jean Pike is a New Mexico-based architect and independent researcher who focuses on the architecture and constructed landscapes of Mesoamerica and the pre-Hispanic U.S. Southwest. She has practiced in the fields of architecture, public art, sustainability and site analysis and has taught at Yale, The New York Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, Pratt Rome and The University of New Mexico where she received the UNM Students’ Choice: Best Teacher at UNM Award. She holds degrees from The Yale School of Architecture and Barnard College, Columbia University. In 2016 she was named a New Mexico History Scholar and received funding for her research on the Classic and Coalition period architecture of the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico. She investigates ancient American architecture and its affordances of identity, social organization, power and connectivity.
Conference Papers
Upcoming Paper at Session on New Discoveries and Interpretations in Mesoamerican Archaeology, The 90th Annual Meeting of The Society for American Archaeology, April, 2025, Denver.
Diagram Thinking: Power and Identity in Chaco Canyon Architecture, The 77th Annual International Conference of The Society of Architectural Historians, April 18, 2024, Albuquerque.
Mesoamerican Precedents for Chaco Canyon Great House Architecture, The 88th Annual Meeting of The Society for American Archaeology, April 2, 2023, Portland.
Analysis of Bayesian Network Methodology for Site Assessment, Deborah Leishman and Jean Pike, The 88th Annual Meeting of The Society for American Archaeology, March 31st, 2023, Portland.
Classic Period Architecture of the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico: Long-Distance Connections to Mesoamerica and Cahokia? The 87th Annual Meeting of The Society for American Archaeology, March 31st, 2022, Chicago.
Deconstructing Hybrid Architectures: A Bayesian Methodology for the Analysis of Precontact Southwest Architecture, with Deborah Leishman, The 86th Annual Meeting of The Society for American Archaeology, April, 2021, online.
Classic Period Architecture of the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico: Long-Distance Connections to Mesoamerica? The New Mexico Historical Society New Mexico History Conference, March, 2021, Santa Fe (canceled due to pandemic).
The Thingness of Networks: Architectural Integration in Classic Period Pueblos of the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 22-26, 2020 (canceled due to pandemic).
Credentials
Licensed Architect, State of New Mexico and State of New York
Architect Member, American Institute of Architects
The Society for American Archaeology
The Society of Architectural Historians
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Association
Funding
The Center for Southwest Research at The University of New Mexico
The Historical Society of New Mexico
The Office of the New Mexico State Historian
Eric S. Doescher; Thomas F. Pike; Anne D. Lohr
Awards
New Mexico History Scholar, 2016.
Students’ Choice: Best Teacher at UNM, 1999.
Lectures
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, NM Renesan, Santa Fe, NM, Spring 2019.
Structuring the World: Ancestral Puebloan Architecture of the Galisteo Basin, NM, The State Archives of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; June 2016.
FEED FORWARD/FEED BACK, part of: BMW Guggenheim Lab Urban Think Tank and Gathering Space for Generating New Ideas for the Future of Cities, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, with SPURSE, 2011.
Drawing and Thinking about Architecture, The University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.
Teaching
The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, 1990-2015.
The New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture, 2002-2008.
The New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1999-2001.
Pratt Institute and Pratt Rome, 1999.
Yale College, Yale University, 1985-1986.
Community Service
Santa Fe County Open Lands, Trails and Parks Advisory Committee, 2017-2023.
Galisteo Basin Archaeological Sites Protection Act Working Group, 2014-present.
Publications
Pike, Jean L. 2024. The Architecture of Social Integration in the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico Ca. 1325-1520 CE. Manuscript in preparation.
Pike, Jean L. 2023. Like Water: The Emergence of Great House Architecture at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Manuscript submitted for publication.
SPURSE (Iain Kerr, Jean Pike, and Matthew Friday; Introduction by Petia Morosov) 2017. Eat Your Sidewalk! Cookbook/Codebook for the Activation of Public Space and the Co-Production of the Commons, New York: SPURSE.
Pike, Jean. 2013. Experimental Drawing: Drawing to Steal. In Professional Practice 101: A Compendium of Business and Management Strategies in Architecture, edited by Andrew Pressman. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Pike, Jean. 2001. Why Draw [Now]? In The Architect's Portable Design Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices, edited by Andrew Pressman. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Published Drawings and Design Work:
Kapp, Matt. 2020. A Century Downtown: A Visual History of Lower Manhattan. New York: powerHouse Books.
Levine, Lester. 2016. 9/11 Memorial Visions: Innovative Concepts from The World Trade Center Memorial Design Competition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.
Pohl, Ethel Baraona. 2012. There Are Other Worlds. Domus Magazine, 963.
Fournier, Anik, Michelle Y. Lim, Amanda Parmer, and Robert Wuife. 2011. Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art,
Klein, Jennie. 2009. SPURSE’S Expanded Field: Research, Systems Collective Activism and Participation. Art Papers 32.05.
SPURSE. 2009. Apparatus for Sensing Temporality. College Art Association’s Art Journal, Winter.
Reeve, Agnesa. 2001. The Small Adobe House. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith.
Rieder, Morgan. 2001. HABS Recording Today, In Recording a Vanishing Legacy: The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico 1933-Today. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.
Ivey, James E. 1988. In the Midst of a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas Missions. Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Historic Structure Report, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Professional Papers No. 15. National Park Service: Santa Fe.
Rylander, Mark. 1985. The Importance of Perspective Drawing in the Design Process: Philip Grausman’s Drawing Class at Yale. The Architectural Student Journal, Summer.