Tracey Eve Winton has a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Waterloo, and practised as an architect. She holds a Masters degree in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University where she studied with Alberto Pérez-Gómez, and a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from the University of Cambridge in England, where her supervisor was Dalibor Vesely. Her doctoral thesis was titled: A Skeleton Key to Poliphilo's Dream: the Architecture of the Imagination in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. She is currently Director of Studies for the Waterloo Rome Program in Architecture, and Associate Professor at the Waterloo School of Architecture, where she teaches Design Studio, Cultural History, and Italian Urban History. General areas of expertise are in iconography and iconology, the forma urbis, Renaissance architecture and art, landscape, and gardens. She produces a play every year with her second year students.