Francesca Hughes is an architectural theorist, educator, and specialist in the relationship between architecture and technology. She is the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has taught workshops and courses in history and theory at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL in London, where she is from. She has also taught at The Berlage, TU Delft, and served as a visiting professor at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Hughes has lectured extensively across the U.S., Australia, and Europe and has authored several books, most notably The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision (MIT Press, 2014), Drawings that Count (AA Publications, 2012), and The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice (MIT Press, 1996).
She is currently working on a new book that examines the prehistory of the relationship between architecture and computation: The Architect's Computer: An Indiscrete History of the Universal Discrete Machine
