Diane Davis-Sikora is an Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University. She is a licensed architect whose research focuses on temporary, kinetic structures that employ variable patterns and surfaces. She has also produced films on narrative and documentary storytelling in architecture. Her writings have been presented nationally and internationally; and her architectural works exhibited in the Denver Art Museum, the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, Chicago Athenaeum, Curated Storefront, and the 2019 IASS Form & Force Expo in Barcelona, Spain.
In 2011, Ms. Davis-Sikora was awarded the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant from the Center for Architecture Foundation in New York to research pneumatic architecture. Her short documentary, ‘Structures of Air’, was an official selection at the 2012 VI Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, and the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) in 2013. She was a featured speaker at the 2014 Textile Society of America Conference at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2015, Ms. Davis-Sikora was awarded a Knight Foundation Akron Arts Challenge Grant to launch an interactive, public art series in collaboration with experimental, media artist (2010 Guggenheim Fellow) Kasumi beginning in the fall of 2017. The first installation from this series received an AIA Cleveland Honorable Mention ‘Makers’ Award in 2018.
Prior to her academic appointment Ms. Davis-Sikora worked professionally in the New York office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill and KMD Architects in San Francisco where she was an Associate Designer.