Judi Shade Monk 
Instructional Assistant Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Judi Monk focuses on sustainable architecture and design, LEED design and the implementation of resilient technologies and practices.
Biography
Judi Shade Monk is a registered architect in Florida, New Jersey and New York. She has been a LEED accredited professional since 2006. The continuing education she seeks in order to maintain those credentials includes sustainability and resilience. Her research interests include practice-informed studio instruction and pedagogy, color theory in the Josef Albers tradition, detailing, cross-disciplinary collaboration and the education of non-architects on the role and value of the profession. Judi's area of focus is sustainability through building energy, building materials, built environment resilience, smart buildings/cities, sustainable architecture and design and sustainable construction.
Areas of Expertise (9)
Sustainability
Municipal Planning
Women in STEM
Green Building
Building Codes
Construction
Architecture
#MeToo
LEED Buidlings
Media Appearances (3)
Local talents come together to create a world-class Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement
The Architect's Newspaper online
2023-01-14
On the Florida peninsula’s central west coast, just across the bay from Tampa, is the city of St. Petersburg, a recurring New York Times pick for best places to visit in the world. Indeed, “St. Pete,” as it’s called by locals, has a lot going for it. As the state’s greenest urban center, St. Pete is on track to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2035. It also boasts a well-established arts community, which has spurred the city’s cultural patrons to invest heavily in pilgrimage-worthy works of architecture.
“I fear they have become the culture”: Richard Meier’s accusers say firm is whitewashing his misdeeds despite the #MeToo movement
The Real Deal online
2019-02-22
Judi Shade Monk, who worked at the firm from 2003 to 2008 and has accused Meier of grabbing her underwear through her dress at a holiday party, said Meier’s behavior with women was well-known in the office. But pre-#MeToo, the reaction was different. “Women just rolled with it,” she said. “If you have professional, high-level aspirations, then this is an occupational hazard. Even when these things are unsolicited, it was as if it was our fault. That women were too tempting and men couldn’t be expected to control themselves around us. The blame wasn’t on the man. In hindsight, it’s absurd.”
5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment
The New York Times print
2018-03-18
Richard Meier, the celebrated architect and Pritzker Prize winner who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles, established a graduate scholarship in January at his alma mater, Cornell University’s architecture school. Intended to honor the 55th anniversary of his practice, the scholarship was designed to “recruit and retain the most talented women applicants.” But four women who have worked for Mr. Meier have described encounters when the architect, now 83, was, in fact, not good to women.
Articles (1)
Black Box | White Palace | #MeToo : Workplace Sexual Assault at the Hands of a Professional Hero
Journal of Architectural EducationJudi Shade Monk
2020-03-12
In March 2018, I went on record with the New York Times, accusing Richard Meier of sexually inappropriate behavior at an office event in 2003. In what follows, I reflect on the experiences I contributed to that piece, which are a microcosm of similar experiences I have faced in other contexts throughout my life. Though as of late, Meier's name is invoked around #MeToo within our profession, the unfortunate reality is that this issue is about more than one person and is much more expansive than our profession.
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