Eleanor D'Aponte

Professor Eleanor D’Aponte, AIA, is an associate professor in the School of Architecture + 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. Professor 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, Professor 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, Professor D’Aponte earned a Vermont Master Naturalist certificate in 2021 to deepen her work in biophilic design, and she serves as Secretary for the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.