Cecilia Lewis Kausel, born in Santiago, Chile, is a Full Professor of Interior Architecture at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. She received BA degrees in Biology and Physical Anthropology from The University of Massachusetts and a SM from the Department of Architecture at MIT.  An IDEC member and AIA associate she is author or editor of over twenty publications.  As a result of a 1995 studio she taught on the1920's Bauhaus’ model house she won a Guest Professorship in architectural theory and built form at the Bauhaus School of Architecture of Weimar.

Certified by the NCIDQ Board, she also holds the license of the State Board of Architects and Interior designers of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She has been director of the Interior Architecture Department at Mount Ida College; a research affiliate at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a Guest Professor at the Bauhaus, and a researcher at the Ministry of Public Works of Spain. Her work has been published internationally.

In December 1998 Prof. C. Lewis Kausel was invited to create a website of the lectures of Santiago Calatrava at MIT, and also put them in book form.  The site is found under   http://web.mit.edu/civenv/Calatrava/http://web.mit.edu/civenv/Calatrava/

The book, Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students, The MIT Lectures was a joint venture of the Departments of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002.