Aurélie Frolet is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. Her research explores how architectural drawing, mapping, and design can make visible the environmental, social, and technical systems that shape water infrastructure.
Her current work examines wastewater infrastructure in Alabama’s rural Black Belt, developing accessible forms of representation to support more equitable approaches to sanitation. In collaboration with Rural Studio’s Emily McGlohn, she has received the SOM Foundation Research Prize, a Columbia World Projects grant, an Auburn University Competitive Outreach Scholarship Grant, and a CADC Seed Grant. She is also a co-PI on a National Academies-funded initiative exploring water infrastructure and flood resilience in Mobile Bay. Her other research includes Bronze Age water infrastructure in Sardinia.
Previously, Frolet worked at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Morris Adjmi Architects, and Halard-Halard. She holds an M.Arch from Cornell University, where she received the Richmond Harold Shreve Thesis Prize, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Chinese from the University of Georgia. She also studied Chinese language and literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing.