Claire Downey is pursuing an interdisciplinary Research PhD within the School of Architecture and the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Entitled Utopian Nights, Navigating No Place in Nocturnal Urban Landscapes, the research reflects interconnected interests in architecture, urban narratives, utopian criticism and night studies. Claire received a Master of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology before working for John Portman & Associates in Atlanta and Italy. Currently residing in France, she taught Critical Thinking and Writing, as well as the utopian elective Brave New World at Parsons Paris and the Paris College of Art. Author of Neo-Furniture (Rizzoli), past editor at This City Paris, her writing has been published in Architectural Record, Art Papers,Bauwelt, ID and Progressive Architecture.