Esther da Costa Meyer is a Professor Emeritus of Princeton University's Department of Art and Archeology, and a Visiting Professor with the Yale School of Architecture. Professor da Costa Meyer collaborates with Yale CEA on qualitatively investigating socio-ecological aspects informing the urban to the peri-urban housing crisis. 

Professor da Costa Meyer teaches modern architecture and contemporary architecture. A native of Brazil, she specializes in issues of cultural translation involving architecture focusing on buildings erected by colonial powers in the Global South, as well as the emerging cultures of resistance that were themselves highly hybrid, transnational, and diasporic. 

She is interested in issues pertaining to gender and design, she has published on architects Lilly Reich, Charlotte Perriand, and Lina Bo Bardi. Her curatorial work includes the exhibition and catalogue Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider, co-curated with Fred Wasserman (The Jewish Museum, New York) and, more recently, an exhibition of the drawings of Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry: On Line (Princeton University Art Museum). 

Also interested in the historic avant-gardes in architecture, she has published a book on the Italian futurist Antonio Sant’Elia.

Professor de Costa Meyer holds associate faculty appointments in the School of Architecture, the Department of French and Italian, Princeton Environmental Institute, the Program in Urban Studies, and the Program in Latin American Studies, and is an affiliate faculty member in the Center for African American Studies.