Jody McGuire is an Associate Professor in Practice at the College of Design. She is a registered architect and principal at SALA Architects. She has 20 years of architectural experience in award-winning institutional, commercial, and residential work. Jody has a passion for all scales of design and has strengthened this through research with Denmark’s International Study Program on housing in Copenhagen, Denmark, the urban fabric in Osaka, Japan, and working closely with cabinet makers in Connecticut.  She is committed to an excellent built environment and values collaboration, communication, and innovation throughout the design and construction processes. Her professional experience also includes Gray Organschi Architecture, Turner Brooks Architect, Takenaka Corporation and work with her husband, Aaron Amosson. At Yale, Jody was a Teaching Assistant for Vincent Scully’s Introduction to the History of Art and a Teaching Fellow for the First Year Building Project. She has been a thesis advisor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a guest juror at Wesleyan University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Dunwoody College.

Awarded the AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award given for exceptional leadership and significant contributions to the profession and the AIA MN Emerging Talent Award for excellence in residential design and for boldness in developing her own unique architectural voice, Jody is also a frequent member of state and national design juries.