Carol Rusche Bentel

Carol Rusche Bentel was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Architect and educator, Bentel is partner of architectural firm Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners AIA and is the BFA Interior Design: Built Environments, School of Visual Arts chair. She holds a BA at Washington University in St. Louis and a M.Arch. at North Carolina State University. Bentel received her PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Modern Architecture at MIT. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Venice (Italy). Bentel was also the national chair on the AIA Committee on Design in 2008 and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Bentel has taught at Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, the Architectural Association in London, and lectured at the Centro Palladio in Vicenza (Italy), among other institutions. She is co-author of ''Nourishing the Senses: Restaurant Architecture of Bentel and Bentel'' and has published numerous articles on Italian Modernism. Provided by Wikipedia