Lisa Tucker

Lisa M. Tucker, PhD is a certified interior designer and registered architect with over 20 years of professional experience in sustainability and historic preservation.  She is a professor at Virginia Tech and teaches historic preservation, design research and graduate courses. She is the Director of the Center for Historic Preservation in the School of Design.  She holds degrees in Architecture and Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri—Columbia in Architectural Studies. 

Dr. Tucker has an extensive research portfolio and has written and published seven books and numerous journal articles on interior design focusing on sustainability and the small house. She has won multiple teaching awards including being listed as one of the top 20 Most Admired design educators by Design Intelligence in 2010, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Lisa has held several national offices for the Interior Design Educators’ Council (including President), served on the National Board for the American Society of Interior Designers, served on the accreditation commission for the Council for Interior Design Accreditation and has been honored with three National ASID Awards in 2015 (Polsky Prize, Educator Medalist and Nancy McClelland Award), as well as the IIDA Educator of the Year in 2016. Most recently, she was chosen as the Arnold Friedmann Educator of Distinction, the highest honor awarded by IDEC. She is a Fellow of IDEC, ASID and IIDA.