[2] After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Hawkinson travelled to New York to enrol in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.

[4] The following year, Hawkinson collaborated with Erika Rothenberg and John Malpede to create the Freedom of Expression National Monument, in Battery Park City for its Creative Time Art on the Beach project.

[7] In 1987, Hawkinson (AP) and Smith-Miller were selected to design the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

[10] She then spent three years at the Southern California Institute of Architecture as a Visiting Critic and Graduate Thesis Advisor.

[1] While serving as the director of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Hawkinson collaborated with Vishaan Chakrabarti to connect New York's Financial District to Governors Island through a land bridge made of landfill.