Anca is an associate professor in architecture at The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning where she teaches courses in design and is the director of the undergraduate program. These days, her creative practice and deepest passion finds her at a sewing machine exploring color and composition through the craft of modern quilting. Her textile work has been exhibited at QuiltCon and the International Festival of Quilts. 

As an architect, Anca studies and designs monuments. Early in her practice, this meant designing new pieces that resisted traditional forms and subjects. She created several temporary commissions and entered many design competitions. That work was recognized nationally and internationally. More recently, Anca has used her monument design chops to develop projects that physically alter existing monuments in order to change their meaning… or at least how we see them. Her year-long stay at the Institute for the Humanities allowed her to develop the projects Constructed Revisionism and The Other Washington (Monument), both projects that used monument alteration to question the right to the country’s memories.

At times Anca also makes things with her partner Glenn Wilcox in the research-based creative practice, area.architecture. They explore design issues through speculative and commissioned projects focusing on their combined interests in public space, material experimentation, and digital fabrication. They have received notable recognitions from Architect Magazine, Architizer, Huron Valley AIA, Willamette Valley AIA, TEX-FAB, and the Young Architect’s Forum. 

Anca held the William Muschenheim Fellowship (2005-2006), the Public Art and Engagement Fellowship (2022-2023), and the Institute for the Humanities Steelcase Faculty Fellowship (2022-2023) at the University of Michigan Taubman College. She has a B.Arch. from Temple University and an M.Arch. from The Bartlett, University College London. Anca is a registered architect in New York… she sometimes even takes out her stamp and looks at it.