Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, curator, historian, and educator. For over sixteen years she has been publications director at Yale School of Architecture, for which she edits the bi-annual magazine Constructs, exhibition catalogs, and the books series. She directs Vertical Urban Factory, which includes a traveling exhibition (New York, Detroit, Toronto, London, and Lausanne) and a think tank analyzing manufacturing, factory design, and ecological industrial urbanism. She curated the exhibitions Ezra Stoller: Photographer in Washington,
D.C., The Swiss Section at the Van Alen Institute, in New York, and co-curated Saving Corporate Modernism, at Yale. She is co-editor of the book, Ezra Stoller: Photographer, author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation, and co-author of the book, Long Island City: Connecting the Arts. She has taught industrial urbanism, urban design theory, and has co-taught architectures studios at Syracuse New York City, Parsons School of Design, Barnard College, City College, and Yale School of Architecture. She has written numerous essays on structural design, architecture, and global industrial landscapes for international journals and magazines.
