Constance Vale directs The Factory of Smoke and Mirrors, an experimental research practice that undertakes aesthetic and conceptual investigations in the territory between architecture, art, and theatre. She is an assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught at SCI-Arc and the University of California, Los Angeles. Vale’s work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum and published in the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, the Los Angeles Times, Archinect, and CLOG. In 2015, Vale collaborated with Emmett Zeifman to complete a temporary pavilion in downtown Los Angeles for the experimental opera Hopscotch. She is co-authoring the forthcoming Graham Foundation-supported book Mute Icons, with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich.

Vale earned a MArch from Yale School of Architecture, where she received the Moulton Andrus Award for Excellence in Art and Architecture and two Feldman Nominations, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. She has practiced at nationally and internationally recognized offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and her hometown of Pittsburgh.