Eleanor D'Aponte

Eleanor D’Aponte, AIA, is professor in the School of Architecture and Art at Norwich University, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate design studios, seminars, and lecture courses for more than two decades. She has played a key role in shaping the school’s curricular strengths in ethics, cultural diversity, and the first-year experience, and was instrumental in guiding the program through its 2010 NAAB accreditation. D’Aponte recently led a design-build collaboration that resulted in town approval for a Community Kiosk in Northfield, Vermont.

Before joining the Norwich faculty, D’Aponte interned and practiced with award-winning architecture firms in New York City, including di Domenico + Partners, Deamer and Phillips, and Peter Gisolfi Associates. She brings to her teaching deep professional experience in large-scale public industrial buildings, master planning, residential renovation, and new construction.

Her honors include a Charles A. Dana Category 1 grant for superior scholarship, teaching ability, and university service (2014), a Marion Jasper Whiting Foundation grant to study concrete architecture in Northern Italy and Switzerland (2017), and three consecutive Norwich University Apprenticeship Grants to research fabric-formed concrete for interior wall panels. She is currently authoring a book chapter on this construction technique and has published several peer-reviewed conference papers.

Active in her community and profession, D’Aponte earned a Vermont Master Naturalist certificate in 2021 to deepen her work in biophilic design, and serves the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute of Architects as past president and board member.