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UNLV School of Architecture
welcomed lecturer
Aaron Betsky
on
April 24, 2000
Architecture must
burn
Lecture on VHS & DVD: Arch Media NA2500
.A224 2000
View ASL resources containing material by Aaron
Betsky
Lecture topic: Aaron Betsky, was
the Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art from 1995-2001, and has written books about architecture,
discusses urban density and sprawl and the architecture of Las Vegas.
He also shows slides of images from his book of essays Architecture
must burn (from lecture video case April 2000)
Interview :
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=8842_0_23_0_M
Additional
resrouce:
http://eng.archinform.net/arch/10238.htm
Short bibliography (text from Map
Arquitectos 11/05):
"Aaron Betsky is the Director of both the Netherlands Architecture Institute
in Rotterdam and the First International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2002.
Before that, he was the Curator of Architecture and Design of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art for the period 1995-2001. In 1997, he mounted Icons: Magnets
of Meaning, a large exhibition of mass-produced objects. In 1995, he co-founded
the San Francisco Prize, an annual competition that has elicited designs for
the Philip Burton Federal Plaza (1996) and Union Square (1997). In 1997, he organized
the first biannual San Francisco Forum, Architecture of the Imagination.
Previously, Mr. Betsky was an Instructor and Coordinator of Special Projects
at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He has taught
and lectured extensively, as well as being Adjunct Professor at the California
College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC). Mr. Betsky has published several books on
architecture and design, including Violated Perfection: Architecture and the
Fragmentation of the Modern (1990), James Gamble Rogers and the Architecture
of Pragmatism (1994), Building Sex: Men, Women, Architecture and the Construction
of Sexuality, Queer Space: The Spaces of Same Sex Desire (1997), and Architecture
Must Burn (2000), as well as contributing texts in Architectural magazines.
Mr. Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1958, but moved to The Netherlands
at an early age and received his grade and high school education there. He
was granted both a Bachelor of Arts (1979) and a Masters of Architecture (1983)
degree from Yale University. Upon graduating, he taught at the University of
Cincinnati (1983-1985) before going to work as a designer in the offices of
Frank Gehry (1985-1987) and Hodgetts & Fung Design (1987). In 1987, Mr.
Betsky set up his own design practice in Los Angeles. "
text from:
http://www.mateo-maparchitect.com/02_jlmateo/analysis/03_cv_aaron.html
(accessed October 31, 2005)
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