Catherine Spellman participated as research fellow in Architecture Class of Professor Enric Miralles at the Staatliche Hochschule f''r Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. There she continued as Miralles'' teaching assistant for three years. Simultaneously she taught with Professor Peter Cook at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Catherine Spellman joined the Faculty of Architecture at Arizona State University where she has taught design studio, seminars, and lecture courses. She is an awarded academic including the 2012 AIA Honor Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her design research areas include investigations and projects about; Phoenix water infrastructure, relationships between buildings, context and landscape, and public interest projects benefitting non-for-profit organizations. These projects are recognized with local and national awards and are widely published. She is the author of numerous essays and is the editor of the anthology Re-Envisioning Landscape/Architecture, ACTAR Publications, and A Space for our Generation, Conversations with Students, Peter Smithson, Gustavo Gili (Spanish edition), Princeton Press (English edition).