A childhood fascination for objects matured into a vocation while designing exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Inspired by professors such as Raimund Abraham Johannes earned a Baccalaureate of Architecture with honors from Pratt Institute, while also meriting the American Institute for Architects’ “School Gold Medal,” and Pratt’s “Certificate for Outstanding Excellence in Design.” Already winning international design competitions prior to graduation, he was featured in the Architectural League of New York’s “Young Architects Forum.” After several years in the profession Johannes returned to academia to earn a “Post-professional Master of Architecture” at Yale where he studied under Dean Fred Koetter, a co-author of the book “Collage City,” architect Eric Owen Moss, and artist Frank Stella. From intimate residential interiors to large-scale institutional and critical urban projects his resume includes experience in the offices of Gaetano Pesce, KPF Architects, KPF Interior Architects and Jeff Vandeberg Architect. Though a native to New York City, he’s been displaced several times both in body and mind, thanks to a Van Alen Traveling Fellowship, a Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship, and a coveted Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy... all rare and prestigious opportunities to explore the internal while examining the exotic. Rooted in issues of context, his intentions are global. Noted for his provocation “History: an argument against preservation,” his more personal projects have been supported by a variety of institutions including the Graham Foundation, the Emily Harvey Foundation, the Cini Foundation and the MacDowell Art Colony. Over the years Johannes garnered an unprecedented three “Unbuilt Architecture Awards,” from the Boston Society of Architects; while his most recent project, “Oculi,” was recently exhibited at the Palazzo Morosini-Garterberg in Venice. His ponderings have had audiences at the 2016 Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Clocktower Gallery, and the Urban Center Galleries. Widely published, his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Canadian Center for Architecture. After three solid decades as a designer, educator and innovator his notable career has recently been celebrated with a “SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.” He was cited as a “wellspring of information on design theory, historical precedent and culture.” Back in 2012 he represented FIT at a National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome which gathered 19 university professors across various disciplines, to explore and examine “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome.” More recently he was honored with a much sought-after Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa. The foundation provides an opportunity to engage with other distinguished academics from across the globe and admits only those “who have demonstrated significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience.”
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Johannes Marinus Petrus Knoops, relevant qualifications to teach History/Theory/Criticism III
INTERIOR DESIGN DEPARTMENT ID 324 – History, Theory, and Criticism III This course builds upon ID 122 and ID 227. Students continue their exploration of specific buildings, artists, and design projects from various cultural contexts, and explore the complexity of design decisions that evolve through the knowledge of history and various cultures. They are introduced to critical evaluation of sources of information to develop research skills.
Teaching Criteria The Instructor has: • Knowledge and ability to teach theory, criticism, and theoretical writings on the history of architecture, interior design, and decorative arts. • Knowledge and ability to teach major movements and traditions in architecture, interior design, furniture, decorative arts, and art. • Knowledge and ability to teach global geophysical, cultural, philosophical, and economic influences that affect, shape, and inform architecture and interior design within the various periods and cultures. • Knowledge and ability to illustrate the responses of interior environments to historical forces including human life and activity, functions, social and cultural imperatives, and aesthetic philosophies. • Knowledge and ability to teach a global view of contemporary world cultures that impact interior design decisions within the parameters of cultural contexts. • Knowledge and ability to guide analysis of the organizational principles of historic interiors to explain the design method and decision-making process. • Ability to teach how to critically evaluate information sources in research and analysis. • Ability to employ and teach the integration of a variety of communication techniques appropriate for expressing ideas through oral, written and visual media
relevant courses taught Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Object Fixation (level 400 seminar) 2002 Fall City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Survey in Western Architecture 1 Seminar – 1 credit 2001 Fall City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Survey in Western Architecture 1 Seminar – 1 credit 2001 Sprg Pratt Institute Rome, Italy Program, Visiting Assistant Professor · Urban Field Studies – 2 credits 1994 Fall Yale University, New Haven, CT, teaching assistant to Professor Kent Bloomer · Ornament Theory and Design, graduate elective
2004 Fall
relevant exhibition / museum design work William Lipton Ltd, Asian art gallery casework and exhibitions, The Fuller Building, New York, NY Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, Japanese Fine Art exhibitions for the Winter Antique Show and Asian Art Fair, NY Reinstallation of Assyrian Reliefs, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Lewis Bernard, private study for a collection of 18 c. Japanese scrolls, Beresford Apts, New York, NY David Harvey Exhibition Design, New York, NY, Senior Designer · Chinese Porcelain Company, gallery, New York, NY · Horst (exhibition), Henri Bendels, New York, Boston, Chicago and Columbus · Lalique (exhibition), Henri Bendels, New York, NY · Winter Antique Show, trade booths for Leigh Keno, Alexander Gallery and The Chinese Porcelain Co. · Various exhibitions at the Asia Society, New York, NY inc. Floating World and Chinese Scholar’s Rocks 1984-91 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Design, New York, NY, Exhibition Designer · Irving Collection of Early Indian and Southeast Asian Art · Painting in Renaissance Siena (exhibition) · Boscotrecase Wall Paintings, the Roman and Cypriot Corridor · African Art Corridor Assisted on the following exhibitions: It All Begins with a Dot, Van Gogh in Arles, Nuremberg, Holy Land, 20th Century Design Galleries, Byzantine Corridor, David Hockney: a Retrospective, Gelman Collection, Degas, Goya, Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Velázquez, Hotung Jade Gallery, The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Folon's Folon, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Levy Collection, India!, Mexico, Cantor Sculpture Court, 19th-Century Galleries, etc..
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relevant named fellowships of independent research 2019 Bogliasco Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy (5 weeks) Fellows are conferred with the post-nominal letters “BF,” for Bogliasco Fellow. 2000 Rome Prize in Architecture, Mercedes T. Bass Fellow, American Academy in Rome (1 year) Jury: Charles Gwathmey - Chair, Robert A.M. Stern, Todd Williams and Margaret Holben Ellis Fellows are conferred with the post-nominal letters “FAAR,” for Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. 1996 Catherine Boettcher Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (1 month) 1991 John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellow, National Institute for Architectural Education and the American Academy in Rome (6 months) Jury: Wendy Evans, Robert Kupiec, Toshiko Mori, James Stewart Polshek and John J. Stonehill 1986 William van Alen Architect Memorial Fellow, National Institute for Architectural Education (6 months) Jury: Byron Bell - Chair, Ashok Bhavnani, Dr. Kadri M.G. El Araby, Robert Fox, Jr., Abraham Geller, Marion Geller, Michael Manfredi, H. Dickenson McKenna, Nancy Miao, John James Pron, Beverly Russell, Stanley Salzman, Gerald Schiff, Alan Schwartzman, Sidney Shelov, Jay Sam Unger, Maximillian Spell, John Stonehill and Bart Voorsenger
Bogliasco Fellow
Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy The Bogliasco Foundation supports the Arts and Humanities by providing residential Fellowships at its study center in Italy’s most vibrant, historic crossroads, where gifted artists and scholars of all cultures come together to connect, create and disseminate significant new work. For Bogliasco Fellows, the time and space to create in complete freedom, combined with the thought-provoking company of varied colleagues in an unforgettable setting, results in astounding productivity, novel approaches and often-unexpected collaborations.
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Bogliasco Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy
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Bogliasco Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy
relevant seminar / colloquium of independent research 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities, 5-week NEH Summer Seminar “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome,” American Academy in Rome, Italy, comprised of walks, talks, readings, discussions and independent research. Consisting of 16 University professors from various disciplines. I represented FIT/SUNY by advocating the power of design in communicating a culture’s identity and ambition. Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Seminar Director and Michael Maas, Rice University – Seminar Co-Director.
National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Seminar American Academy in Rome, Italy
Directors: Prof. Michael Mass, University of Texas, Rice Prof. Richard Talbert, University of Chapel Hill, NC Assoc. Prof. Johannes Knoops was selected to represent FIT/SUNY in this highly competitive 5-week cross disciplinary Summer Seminar with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This project received support from FIT’s Center for Excelence in Teaching with a grant for the maximum amount
This project also received generous support from the School of Art and Design, Dean Joanne Arbuckle
Held at the American Academy in Rome… our country’s most prestigious institution of independent-research abroad, the NEH selected 16 scholars representing widely varied disciplines…. from Archeology to Philosophy and Judaic studies. Titled “Communications, Empire and the City of Rome” this rigorous seminar was an interdisciplinary non-stop dialogue involving: readings, seminar discussions, field trips and guest lecturers. In addition to the group’s collaborative work, each participant pursued their own independent research under the guidance of two seminar directors. In this political climate of financial reductions in the arts, NEH Summer Seminars abroad no longer exist.
2012 Summer Seminar “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome” at the
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American Academy in Rome
NEH Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome, Italy
relevant residencies of independent research 2021 2019 2019 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2008 1999 1996 1995
Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy, (2.5 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (2 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (1.5 weeks) American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (5 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (3 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (7 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (5 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application
Residency with the Emily Harvey Foundation Venice, Italy
The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, dancers, choreographers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world. Project Descripiton Building on my research last summer with Cini Foundation, which established a need for a memorial to commemorate the achievements of Aldus Pius Manutius, I hope to start a design for for a memoial intended for the Aldine Press’s true location.
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Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center Isola San Giorgio, Venice, Italy
In Venice, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, there is a new residential resource for humanities studies where young researchers and expert scholars can stay while working in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini libraries. They include university students, professors, writers and artists willing to pursue some research work on the Fondazione collections, bequests and archives. The International Center for the Study of Italian Culture is named after Vittore Branca – a world-renowned Italianist who was Secretary General of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
This project received support from FIT’s Center for Excelence in Teaching with a grant for the maximum amount
Project: Confirming and illustrating the true location of Aldus Pius Manutius’s Aldine Press. Ultimately the work establishes a need for a new memorial commemorating his achivements at the approprate location.
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Centro Vittore Branca centrobranca@cini.it Admission confirmation to Venice, 6 June to 4 July, 2017 March 16, 2017 at 6:24 AM Johannes Knoops jmpknoops@me.com, Moc campus@cini.it
Good morning Professor Knoops, thank you for sending us your application. We are glad to confirm your admission to the Vittore Branca Center from June 6 to July 4, 2017, as there is a single room available in our Residence. Considering your research project is in line with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini research guidelines, you were granted a co-financing, i.e. a direct form of support by the Fondazione, that will allow you to spend only euros 50 (VAT included) a day, to access research-related services in our library and stay in our Residence. Massimo Busetto, our Master of Campus (campus@cini.it / +39 041 2710205) will soon write you directly, to provide you with all information concerning services you will find in the Residence and payment methods. Important: please plan your arrival during office time (8.30 - 18.00) for organisational reasons. Looking forward to meeting you here, Best Regards Marta Zoppetti Centro Vittore Branca
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"Tradizione non è culto delle ceneri ma custodia del fuoco" (Gustav Mahler) Centro Internazionale di Studi della Civiltà Italiana "Vittore Branca" Fondazione Giorgio Cini onlus Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore 30124, Venezia Tel.: +39 041 2710253 - Fax: +39 041 5238540 E-mail: centrobranca@cini.it web: www.cini.it La Fondazione Giorgio Cini informa l'interessato dei diritti riconosciuti dalla Legge n.196/2003 sul trattamento dei dati personali mettendo a disposizione l'informativa privacy alla seguente pagina web www.cini.it/informativa-sulla-privacy, ribadisce che l'eventuale raccolta dei dati è per le sole finalità derivanti dalla specifica attività oggetto della presente comunicazione e per eventuali obblighi previsti dalla legge.
2017-03-14 18:01 GMT+01:00 Johannes Knoops <jmpknoops@me.com>: Greetings — Please find my application attached. I am a university professor as well as an Architect interested in “urban memories.” My current work is focused on Aldus Manutius and the true location of the Aldine Press. If accepted to the Centro Branca, I would love to share my previous work on Venice mapping, recently exhibited in Palazzo Mora for the 2016 Biennale. I look forward to your kind consideration, sincerely — Johannes
Johannes M.P. Knoops FAAR, Assoc AIA www.knoops.us Saluti Si prega di trovare la mia domanda allegata. Io sono un professore universitario e un architetto interessato a "memorie urbane". Il mio lavoro attuale si concentra su Aldo Manuzio e la vera posizione del Aldina Stampatrice. Se accettato al Centro Branca, mi piacerebbe condividere il mio precedente lavoro su Venezia mappatura, recentemente esposto a Palazzo Mora per la Biennale 2016. Non vedo l'ora alla vostra considerazione gentile, sinceramente - Johannes
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Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
Map Analysis:
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Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
Map Analysis:
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Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
F inding A ldus A faculty member helped solve the mystery of a 15th-century Venetian printing press AT HIS ALDINE PRESS, founded in Venice in 1494, pioneering publisher Aldus Pius Manutius established the modern use of the semicolon, commissioned the Bembo and Garamond fonts, and created the first italic typeface. He is perhaps best known for pioneering a portable book size, the precursor to the paperback. Unfortunately, no one is certain exactly where his press was located. In 2015, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Aldus’ death, New York’s Grolier Club, a storied society of bibliophiles, staged an exhibition celebrating his accomplishments. At the show’s opening party, Johannes Knoops, associate professor of Interior Design, heard an intriguing opinion from George Fletcher, one of the curators: Fletcher, along with four other Aldus scholars, thought that the two plaques identifying the site of the press, placed in 1828 and 1877, were in the wrong location. They believed the press had operated in a building down the street. Knoops decided to investigate. By studying historical maps and writings, and with some deduction of his own, he built a sturdy case in favor of that nearby location. A monthlong residency from the Cini Foundation and an FIT faculty grant brought him back to Venice in 2017 to continue his research, and a yearlong sabbatical for the 2018–19 academic year will enable him to finish the project. He aims to publish his findings, convince the city to relocate the plaques, and design a contemporary memorial for Manutius in keeping with the great printer’s legacy. Here are some of the clues that helped him crack the case. —JONATHAN VATNER
Knoops is an architect who creates site-specific installations and memorials, including an alternative map of Venice that showed in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. “I work a lot with memory and place,” he says.
2311 RIO TERR Á SECONDO Two commemorative plaques mark 2311 Rio Terrá Secondo as the location of the Aldine Press, but Knoops believes this building is more distinguished than a printing press would have been. The second-floor balcony, windows, and cornice are all quite ornamented, suggesting a building “more noble in stature than a commercial structure,” he writes.
RIO DELLA PERGOLA In Aldus’ time, a canal, Rio della Pergola, bordered the 2311 building, where the plaques are located—but no historical document about the Aldine Press mentions that canal, leading Knoops to believe that the true location has never been on the water. It’s easy to understand why the error occurred: historical maps show that in the late 1700s and early 1800s, parts of the canal were filled in and renamed Rio Terrá Secondo (as shown in the above map from 1886). When the first plaque was placed in 1828, 2311 was on a street made of stone.
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Jonathan Vatner, “Finding Aldus,” HUE The Magazine of FIT, Spring, Vol. XI: No. 2, Pg. 12-13
PISANI PALA ZZO The Pisani Palazzo, the former home of an aristocratic Venetian family, is just a few steps from the entrance to 2311 Rio Terrá Secondo, where the plaques are. Knoops finds this juxtaposition unlikely. “Such an industrial trade with its clatter and odor of ink would not traditionally be located so close to a noble’s front door,” he notes.
BAKERY A contemporaneous letter from Zaccaria Calergi, one of Aldus’ collaborators, providing directions to the Aldine Press, stated that it was near a bakery (pistor, in Venetian dialect). There is a bakery across the street from 2343 Rio Terrá Secondo, not 2311, the location of the plaques. Knoops believes that this is the same bakery mentioned in the letter, because the adjacent street has been named Calle del Pistor since 1661, and if a bakery, with its built-in oven and ventilation, has operated in one spot for 350 years, it’s unlikely that it was in a different place 150 years earlier.
CAMPO SANT’AGOSTIN Calergi’s letter also mentioned that the press was located directly on Campo Sant’Agostin (Saint Augustine Plaza). Due to the demolition of the Chiesa di Sant’Agostin (Church of Saint Augustine) in 1873 and the subsequent construction of an apartment building, that campo has been reduced to a mere street. Knoops used this illustration by Francesco Guardi and a map drawn in 1500 to construct a digital model of the church, which reveals that 2343 Rio Terrá Secondo, the hypothesized location, was on the campo in Aldus’ time, and 2311, the location of the plaques, was not.
2343 RIO TERR Á SECONDO Knoops and other scholars posit that the building at 2343 Rio Terrá Secondo, which now houses a restaurant, is the true location of the Aldine Press. Not only does its location match multiple historical descriptions, but the workaday architecture is fitting of a commercial building, the only ornamentation being a lunette (a half moon–shaped space for a mural) above one window and a ropelike trim around the doorframe.
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Jonathan Vatner, “Finding Aldus,” HUE The Magazine of FIT, Spring, Vol. XI: No. 2, Pg. 12-13
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Jonathan Vatner, “Knoops Clarifies True History,” FIT Newsroom, Cini Foundation Residency
Various views from my digital reconstruction of the campo Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostin in 1500. This work is still in progress To view a walk-thru animation please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8meFGN1LvQ&index=4&list=PLeLJkv8SP0dMhtiSa_TOji7axwz-JYFce
Erroneous site on right, canal, bridge and Palazzo Soranzo-Pisani on left, landmarks which would have been refered to in any description.
True site of the Aldine Press on left. Church of Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostin on right.
Ariel view showing the campo on 3 sides of the church and the now filled-in canal.
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View matching the 2 known historical images of the church. This verifies the size and orientation of the church.
Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
Digital Reconstruction and Animation of the Campo San Agustino My recent work established that the current site celebrated as the location of Aldus Pius Manutiusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s printing press is indeed the wrong location,,, and that the true site of the Aldine Press was opposite the bakery. The project was suggested to me by George Fletcher of the Groelier Club and curator of a recent Aldus exhibit there. But my work was the first to illustrate the issues. I did this through an extensive mapping analysis (much like our curriculum analysis) while in residency at the Cini Foundation this past summer where I had access to various archives. I also built a digital (SketchUp) model of the area that included the lost church of San Agustino, a key element in understanding the true location of the Aldine Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8meFGN1LvQ&t=18s&list=PLeLJk v8SP0dMhtiSa_TOji7axwz-JYFce&index=4
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Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
Residency with the Emily Harvey Foundation Venice, Italy
The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, dancers, choreographers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world. Project Descripiton In search of Aldus Pius Manutius
Sunday, September 27, 2015
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Aludus Pius Manutious and the Campo San Augustino
It was located on the square at Sant’Agostino, at the corner of the Calle del Pistor. Ref. F
1489 or the beginning of the Following year untill Aldus moved to San Paternian in 1505
In order to understand Campo Agustin and the location of the Adline Press in the time of Aldus we need to understand the location of the Chiesa San Agustin. 959 Founded around the year 959 by the bishop of Olivolo Peter Marturio Quintavalle with his father Theodosius. Ref. A
1105 Destroyed by fire and rebuitlt by the mid-12th century. Ref. A 1149 Suffers another fire. Ref. A 1634 Destroyed by fire again. Rebuilt with Francesco Contin as the architect and consecrated in 1691. Ref. A 1808 By Napoleonic decree downgraded to a branch church in the merging of parishes throughout Venice. Ref. A 1810 the church was closed and indemaniata 1813 A harsh winter, trade block, famine and and earthquake lead the mayor of Venice Bartolomeo Girolamo Gradenigo to write a letter to the Director of the State Property Antonelli asking the temporary surrender of six buildings, including the church Sant’Agostin to convert them into mills to grind grain for bread of the Venetians.
1821 Pirker Patriarch visited what was left of the former church of San Stin and Sant’Agostin “... now closed and
he had put up house not far from the workshop of Torresano in Sant’Agostin district, on the Rio Terà San Secondo,at the corner with the Calle del Pistor. Ref. H
LOCATION REFERENCES: 1. In 1875 a letter was found in Paris from Zaccaria Calergi to Giovanni Gregoropulo giving directions to Aldus’s printing house: «... de messer Aldo Romano sul campo de Santo Agostino (...) el pestore.». Unfortunately (...) indicates the writing is illegible in the letter. “Pestor” or “pistor” in Venetian dialect translates to “bakery.” We can construe the location to be directly on the Campo San Agustiono and perhaps on the Calle del Pistor (street of the bakery) or at least near or above a bakery. On the existing Calle del Pistor a bakery operates on the corner and one has been documented to be at this same location serving San Augustino since at least 1661. Ref. A 2. The Press worked at two certain locations during Aldus’s lifetime. The first was in a house that may still be standing. It was located on the square at Sant’Agostino, at the corner of the Calle del Pistor (fig. 3). If this was the structure at San Polo 2343, it still may be viewed, if not easily visited, in its much-cramped state, badly hemmed m by later construction. Ref. F 3. he had put up house not far from the workshop of Torresano in Sant’Agostin district, on the Rio Terà San Secondo, at the corner with the Calle del Pistor. Ref. H 4. One day, Francesco’s press had to stop for a few hours while some of the compositor’s letters were re- cast in metal. A shipment of books was ready to be sent to the booksellers stalls in another part of Venice. Aldus winked to Francesco that he could accompany the agent. Francesco smiled, hiding some of his excitement. Going out of the shop, he slipped into the bakery next door, bought himself a small loaf, and greeted a tailor standing in his shop door. As he tucked the bread under his tunic, he looked up at the Pisani palace across from Aldus’ house and shop. The church of San Agostin was nearby. Ref. G
One day, Francesco’s press had to stop for a few hours while some of the compositor’s letters were re- cast in metal. A shipment of books was ready to be sent to the booksellersstalls in another part of Venice. Aldus winked to Francescothat he could accompanythe agent. Francescosmiled, hiding some of his excitement. Going out of the shop, he slipped into the bakery next door, bought himself a small loaf, and greeted a tailor standing in his shop door. As he tucked the bread under his tunic, he looked up at the Pisanipalaceacrossfrom Aldus’ houseandshop.The churchof San Agostin was nearby. Ref. G (fictionalized account based on 2 cited texts)
nearly demolished ...” Ref. C
1828 Monsignor Pietro Pianton, bought 12 marble crosses from Sant’Agostin for his church Santa Maria della Misericordia in Cannaregio. Ref. C
1839 What remained of Sant’Agostin church along with the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista and the headquarters of the Knights of Malta were used as storage facilities for materials and marble salvaged from demolished sacred buildings. The remaining marbles of Sant’Agostin were moved to the church of Santa Margherita. Ref. C
1868 The Royal A.Mori Construction Office appraised what was left of the church Sant’Agostin. “... persistent infiltration of water from both the ceiling and the windows without vestri and dark ... is in grave neglect and deterioration, the 5 steps of the entrance portal has deteriorated in several places. It has: a fresco on the ceiling, 18 marble capitals, 10 quaters of capital, four large windows and six smaller windows, the bell tower lacks coverage and has 7 flights of stairs useless ...” Ref. C
Campiello del Remer
1870 The Prefect of Venice, the Mayor and two Aldermen bought Sant’Agostin for 5,507 lire earmarked as provisionally deposit of wood and state representative warehouse.It was decided to demolish the bell tower and free the entire area assigning it to the building of 40 housing for workers constructed in 18 months on the foundations of the church . The side door of the old church became the entry of the condominium, while nearby Calle dei Preti, next to the church changed his name to “Calle del remer” . Ref. C
The “Column of Infamy” indicating this property had once been owned by the treasonous Bajamonte Tiepolo and now made public .
Portico to the lost Calle del Remer
Set against the apse, was placed a column of infamy, which originally indicated the place where they were the houses Bajamonte Tiepolo who in 1310, along with other conspirators concocted a conspiracy , failed, against the Republic of Venice. the Tiepolo had his palace almost at the side of St. Agostin church, in what was the campiello del Remer ( “remer” = oars manufacturer). After the defeat and Bajamonte duoi accomplices, his house was demolished and in its place was installed in 1364 a column of infamy, which bore the following inscription: “DE Bajamonte FO THIS TERENO aND ME SO UNFAIR FOR TREASON hath CHOMUN pLACE FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S SCARE and in order to show TUTI aLWAYS a BREAST “ (ie,” This land was of Bajamonte Tiepolo and now for his wicked betrayal has become public, and [these words] are always shown at all for a warning to others “). Shortly after his elevation the column was damaged by a certain Francesco Fantebon who had been an accomplice of Bajamonte Tiepolo and therefore condemned and later pardoned. Following his gesture of defiance, the Fontebon was punished by the cutting of a hand, the loss of eyes and exile. The column was removed from the Campiello del Remer and placed behind the church of S. Agostino, in the field. In 1785 patrician Angelo Maria Querini (1721-1796) obtained it from the government to bring in his villa at Altichiero who had become a gathering place for intellectuals and cultural salon, where he had retired. After this column went to finish in the Antonio Sanquirico hands antiquarian who sold it to the Duke Melzi who assigned it to beautification of the garden of his villa in Bellagio on lake Como. Ref. A
Calle del Remer
2000 Two masons placing purification tanks for sewage uncover the foundations of the 1600 church and Ref. C
Calle Bajamante Tieplo [formally the Calle dei Pretti. Ref. A] 2311 would have beeen located on the rio, yet there is no description of his location ever mentioning the rio
The church of S. Agostino as indicated on a map by Fra ‘Paolino (1270 circa-1344)
S. Agustino Jacopo de’ Barbari, View of Venice (detail), 1500. Woodcut. There is nothing that de’Barbari showed that did not exist as of 14971500, but there were some things that he could not show if he were to be faithful both to his perspective and to the task of showing as many building façades as possible. Ref. B
Domenico Morosini in 1204 accidentally broke a leg of the four gilded bronze horses plundered Constantinople. He then displayed this hoof on his palazzo on Campo San Augustin Ref. D
Domenico Morosini in 1204 accidentally broke a leg of the four gilded bronze horses plundered Constantinople. He then displayed this hoof
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Drawing of San Augustin by Guardi Ref. C
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San Augustino in a 19th century etching
2343 Calle de la Chiesa the most likely birthplase of the Adline Editions References: A. http://home.giandri.altervista.org/giandri_0424_SantAgostin.html on 6.23.16 Campo S. Agustin (S. Agustino), by Giandri 2004 B. http://www.bellereti.com/jzimm/diss/Chapter3A.html on 6.23.16 C. http://veneziana13.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=35435187&item=14 on 6.23.16 D. http://www.veniceinperil.org/projects/restore-the-memorial-to-the-infamy-of-bajamon on 6.23.16 E. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Aldus_Manutius.aspx on 6.24.16 F. https://archive.org/details/inpraiseofaldusm00flet In Praise of Aldus Manutius: A Quincentenary Exhibition, by George Fletcher 1995 G. https://cmes.uchicago.edu/sites/cmes.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Global/Story%20Pair-Renaiss_Unit.pdf University of Chicago, student handout, Emergence of Renaissance, Story Pair, A Day at Aldus Manutius’ Print Shop H. The book and the places of aldo manuzio by Tiziana Plebani PDF Venezia Città del Libro e i Luoghi di Aldo Manuzio, by Tiziana Plebani, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
2016
2343 at the intersection of Calle de la Chiesa and Calle del Pistor
An removed shield at 2343, Aldus’s?
Previous location of a rear door to 2343 leading to Calle del Pistor where Aldus’s books were likely loaded onto boasts in the Rio di San Polo
The now-famous anchor-and-dolphin impresa (printer’s emblem) with the motto “fastina lente,” first appeared in print in a 1499 Aldine publication, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, as an illustration in the book. Two years later, the symbol became the trademark of the Aldine Press when, in January of 1501, Aldus published the same anchor-and-dolphin symbol as the Aldine impresa in the second volume of Poetae Christiania veteres. The design of the impresa was taken from a reproduction of an old Roman coin and bore a motto quoted from the Emperor Augustus, which read, “fastina lente” (“make haste slowly”). The proverb emphasized the tedious attention to detail demanded of the printer in the mass production of books. Ref. E
A 1785 plaque indicating where the “infamy column” had been located (now located in the archives of the Museum Correr).
Abbot Vincenzo Zenier of S. Toma Church had it placed in 1828 a plaque on the facade of this building,
Placed in 1877 by students from the School of Greek letters at the University of Padua class of 1876-77
“Quisquis es, rogat te Aldus etiam atque etiam ut, siquid est quod a se velis, perpaucis agas, deinde actutum abeas: nisi tanquam Hercules, defesso Atlante, veneris suppositurus humeros” Manutius, Rhetorica ad Herennium (1521) in Aldo Manuzio editore 1:129.
“Whoever you are, Aldus asks you again and again: if there is anything you want from him, please state your business quickly and get on your way, unless you are going to take his work on your shoulders, as Hercules did for weary Atlas” trans. Lowery, World of Aldus Manutius 166.
Residency with the Cini Foundation at the Branca Center, Venice, Italy
2311 Rio Terra’ Secondo
All images by Johannes Knoops, unless otherwise notes
Calle del Pistor looking south to the Rio di San Polo
relevant exhibitions of designs within an historical context 2016 TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Palazzo Mora, Rene Rietmeyer curator (Venice Re-Mapped) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; catalog 2005 Unbuilt Architecture at Build Boston, World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA (Pools of Pleasure) 2002 Unbuilt Architecture at Build Boston, World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA (Kinetic Fantasies) 2000 Annual Fellows Exhibition, American Academy in Rome â&#x20AC;&#x201C; catalog
Space-Time-Existence
Official Collateral Event of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale Palazzo Mora Rene Rietmeyer curator Catalog Here my animation â&#x20AC;&#x153;Venice Re-Mappedâ&#x20AC;? was transformed into an installation by lining the gallery with a mirrored vinyl map of Venice to reflect the animation and to create an immersive environment to surround the viewer. The 10:05 animation is a fly-though of an alternate Venice as depicted in the hand drawn maps found on Venetian business cards. Almost 200 wireframes based on these maps are used to construct new Venice. To accompany this installation, I uploaded the digital model to SketchFab for people to navigate this alternative Venice on their own. You can visit this Venice at: https://sketchfab.com/models/911d04dfc1324508b10502634cf27a60
Invite card based on a Venetian business card with their hand-drawn maps relying on landmarks, paths and edges.
2016
TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Palazzo Mora, Rene Rietmeyer curator
“X” indicates the gallery’s location within the map
2016
TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Palazzo Mora, Rene Rietmeyer curator
2016
TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Palazzo Mora, Rene Rietmeyer curator
relevant published book / booklets as author 2018 In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius… a campo Sant’Agostin, (Venice: Domacle Edizioni, 2018) ISBN 978-88-943223-2-3 The book disputes the celebrated first location of the Aldine Press to clearly identify its true location through historical evidence.This publication results from my sabbatical work and has led the Comune di Venezia to recognize the site, which will soon be commemorated with a new memorial plaque. Published in a limited edition of 200 handstitched signed copies. 2015 History… an argument against preservation, (Palo Alto, CA: ISSUU, 2015) Pushing the boundaries of preservation to reveal more than existing building fabric, this thesis is illustrated through proposed additions to 3 historic sites in Rome. Metaphor, narration and wit serve as primary tools. This publication results from a 1999-00 Rome Prize Fellowship. [Self –published online: https://issuu.com/knoops/docs/history]
IN SEARCH OF ALDUS PIUS MANUTIUS
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ALDUS PIUS MANUTIUS
Venezia M M XVI I I Revised 15 July 2019
Š Damocle Edizioni Tutti i diritti riservati Cover: Aldine Device No. 1, first appeared January 1501 ISBN 978-88-943223-2-3
IN SEARCH OF ALDUS PIUS MANUTIUS a campo Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostin
Johannes M. P. Knoops Associate Professor FIT/SUNY
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2311 Rio Terà Secondo At no. 2311, a few yards along on the right-hand side, stands a small Gothic palace with a pleasant balcony round the three central windows on the second floor. This was the home of one of the great printing presses of the Renaissance. By the end of the fifteenth century, Venice’s two hundred printers had issued more works than Rome, Florence, and Milan put together. Although the press here was not entirely free, it was at least protected from the worst of the Church’s meddling. Most famous of the Venetian presses was that of Aldus Manutius. Under the imprint of the dolphin and anchor, it quickly became known for its fine editions of the classics. Ian Littlewood, A Literary Companion To Venice, New York 1995 8
Palazzo Soranzo-Pisani | Rio della Pergola | 2311 Rio TerĂ Secondo 9
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Il pristino errore ...allorquando nel 1877 gli studenti di lettere greche nello studio di Padova vollero donare a Venezia una nuova lapide in onore del Manuzio, collocossi anche questa, non senza lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;intervento di dotti personaggi, vicino a quella dello Zenier, sanzionando cosĂŹ il pristino errore. Giuseppe Tassini, CuriositĂ Veneziane, Venezia 1887
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1828 plaque placed by Abbot Vincenzo Zenier of the Chiesa San TomĂ
1877 plaque placed by students from the School of Greek letters at the University of Padua, class of 1876-77 11
avendo recapito presso S. Agostino Alessandro Sarti, Ferrara 1498 March 14
Venetiis, in casa de M. Aldo, apresso santo Agostino dove se stampa Marcus Musurus at Carpi to John Gregoropoulos (1500) March 14
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Rio della Pergola? Venetiis. In casa de messer Aldo, appresso santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostino Marcus Musurus at Carpi to John Gregoropoulos (1500) April 4
A la stampa de miser Aldo Romano, sul campo de Santo Agustino, accante el Pestore. In Venesia Zacharias Callierges to John Gregoropoulos (1500) August 22
Venetiis in casa de meesser Aldo, apresso sancto Augustino dove se stampa Marcus Musurus at Carpi to John Gregoropoulos (1500) September 20 12
Messire aldo Imprimeur demourant a Venise davant St. Augustin, ou les bailler en la botique de livres a lenseigne de la tour, pres de pont Rialto Jean Chapelain at Buda to Aldus (1502) December 19
Venetias a sancto Agostino Scipione Forteguerri at Rome to Aldus 1504 December 11
Santo Agostino Scipione Forteguerri at Rome to Aldus 1505 January 13
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Palazzo Soranzo-Pisani? A Santo Agostino Scipione Forteguerri at Rome to Aldus 1505 December 19
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The erroneous location 2311
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Rio della Pergola Numerous maps prior to 1821 illustrate how 2311 had been situated on a conspicuous canal, the Rio della Pergola. Since the fondamenta in front of 2311 was so narrow, it would have been impossible not to mention the canal when discussing this location. Prior to 1808, the Rio della Pergola was filled in from Rio di San Giacomo dall’Orio to the corner of the Palazzo Soranzo-Pisani. Then after 1816 the Rio della Pergola had been filled in further to the Ponte Natale, and then for a third and final time from the Ponte Natale to the Rio di San Boldo prior to 1821. So when Abbot Zenier placed his plaque in 1828, the rio fronting 2311 had been turned into a rio terà. The street is now known as Rio Terà Secondo. 14
Approximately 1798 “Venezia. Ks Lodovico Ughi delint.” by Teodoro Viero. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
1821 from “Iconografia delle trenta Parrocchie di Venezia” by Giovanni Battista Paganuzzi. Cini Foundation. 15
Prior to Aldus’s move to San Paterniano, we have nine written directions from letters addressed to Aldus which clearly describe his stamperia to be on the campo Sant’Agostin. Today 2343 is on the calle della Chiesa facing the campo only tangentially. Currently an apartment building facing 2343 segregates it from being directly on the campo. But back in 1500 things were different.
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Founded in the late 10th century, the Chiesa Sant’Agostin is first mentioned in a document dated 1081. Destroyed by fire in 1105 and then again 1149, Elena Bassi notes in her article La Chiesa di Sant’Agostino di Venezia 1992, it was reconstructed as depicted in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s 1500 view of Venice facing the Rio di San Polo with its apse letting in light from the campo. Umberto Franzoi and Dina di Stefano in Le Chiese di Venezia 1976, tell us the building was of the basilica type, with a nave and two side aisles of Byzantine-Ravenna derivation. Again destroyed by fire in 1634 it was rebuilt by the architect Francesco Contin and finished in 1639. As Bassi points out Contin likely kept to the previous church’s overall dimensions. In Delle iscrizioni di Venezia 1824, Emanuele Cicogna describes it as being more akin to the style of architects Bartolomeo Manopola and Baldassare Longhena. In this transformation to the Baroque, we can speculate that the apse was squared off in order to shed its Byzantine form. Much later, after the fall of the Republic, the French government closed numerous churches and the parish of Sant’Agostin was suppressed and incorporated into the parish San Stin in 1808. The building was then closed in 1810 and turned into a mill in 1813. Its valuables were moved and auctioned off, including many paintings, statues and marbles. The building survived and under the second Austrian domination served as a storage facility for salvaged building materials until 1839 and then finally for storing timber until 1872. The building suffered from extreme neglect and in 1867 shortly after the Austrians departed, the Municipio di Venezia determined that it was best to demolish the church with its bell tower and build workers housing. As share holders, the Sindaco (Mayor), the Prefetto (Prefect) and a two Assessore (Councilors) personally profited. The church was demolished in 1873 and the construction of the apartments finished 18 months later. 17
1871 construction document in the Archivo di Stato di Venezia, published by Adolfo Bernardello 1992
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The apartment block as depicted in an 1871 construction document in the Archivo di Stato di Venezia, published by Adolfo Bernardello 1992
The 1639 Francesco Contin church as depicted in an 1871 construction document in the Archivo di Stato di Venezia, published by Adolfo Bernardello 1992 19
The centered side door and the six column bays conform to de’ Barbari’s depiction in 1500
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Using the overall dimensions of Continâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s floor plan and his column lines, a Byzantine basilica apse and aisles are substituted
Here the apse projects into the campo, as is the norm for so many churches in Venice, we see the stamperia of Aldus Manutius was directly on the campo as described 21
STILL HERE TODAY
Il pistor
E poiché nella soprascritta della lettera del Calergi leggonsi quelle due parole: el pestore, precedute da altra parola, che, non potendosi forse rilevare nel manoscritto, venne sostituita da puntini, ma che potrebbe essere stata un di sopra, oppure un presso, le lapidi suindicate si trasferiscano sopra, o vicino la pistoria, che appunto è aperta in quel sito, e la cui esistenza è tanto antica da trovarsi fino nel catasto del 1661 una prossima strada contraddistinta, al pari di adesso, col nome di Ramo del Pistor. Giuseppe Tassini, Curiosità Veneziane, Venezia 1887
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Il ch. sig abate don Vincenzo Zenier rettore della chiesa di s. Tommaso Apostolo di Venezia, il quale, come abbiam detto altra volta, va dissotterando la memoria de’ più illustri nostri cittadini, onorandola di analoghe inscrizioni, ha fatto porre nel maggio 1828 la presente lapide poco lungi dal campo di s. Agostino su una vecchia casa segnata col num. 2013 . Che Aldo Manuzio il Vecchio avesse la sua stamperia in questa contrada, non v’ è dubbio; che poi questa propriamente al n 2013 sia la casa ove l’aveva, come sembra che indichino le parole HOC LOCI, io non posso affermarlo che cou autorità stessa di chi fece porre l’epigrafe, il quale avrà certissimi documenti per tenere che quella, e non altra, in questa contrada è la casa dove la Manvccia Genie, o a più propriamente parlare aldo il Vecchio imprimeva . Che se poi l’HOC LOCI vuol significare in questo contorno, allora non v’ è più dubbio sulla verità della cosa. Del resto vedremo nei seguenti cenni biografici sugli Aldi, che Aldo Manuccio il vecchio riceveva lettere da Marco Musuro colla direzione seguente: appresso sancto Augustin dove se stampa. Anche Apostolo Zeno in una lettera al Fontanini in data 26 marzo 1735 confermava che Aldo vecchio stava di casa a s. Agostino (Lett. vol. V. 100).
Emmanuele Antonio Cigogna, Della inscrizioni veneziane raccolte ed illustrate, Venezia 1830
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Qui pero noteremo col Cicogna, sapersi di certo che Aldo Manuzio il vecchio teneva la propria stamperia a S. Agostino Giuseppe Tassini, Curiosità Veneziane, Venezia 1863
Ecco dunque provato che essa Stamperia non esisteva ove scorgesi l’epigrafe, ma bensì in Campo di S. Agostino Giuseppe Tassini, Curiosità Veneziane, Venezia 1887
THE HISTORIANS:
Senza dubbio
...e, in generale, per tutti gli altri indirizzi è indubitato che la casa stave in angolo tra il campo Sant’ Agostino e la via che è tuttora detta “Calle del Pistore;” a quivi appunto tuttavia sorge una casa, segnata col numero 2343, già 2038, che conserva, massime nella porta, il carattere architettonica del tempo, e che tuttavia ha dirimpetto una bottega di pistore o fornaio. E questa senza dubbio è la casa che Aldo abitò, la casa dov’ egli esercitò la tipografia insino ai primi anni del secolo XVI, e che fu per alcun tempo la sede dell’Accademia fondata da lui. Carlo Castellani, La stampa in Venezia dalla sua origine alla morte di Aldo Manuzio senior, Venezia 1889
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…at this time he was probably living at St. Agostino, not in the house which at present bears the tablet recording his residence there, but in one of the small houses in the Calle del Pistor, which opens on to the Campo St. Agostino Horatio F. Brown, The Venetian Printing Press, London & New York 1891
…there is convincing evidence it is on the campo itself Sir John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, London 1982
... la struttura in piedi all’angolo del Campo di San Agostin, la Calle del Pistor e la Calle della Chiesa, con numero civico 2343 Ester Pastorello, Di Aldo Pio Manuzio: Testimonianze e Documenti, Firenze 1965
The Thermae of Aldus the Roman? The house at c.n. 2343 H. George Fletcher III, New Aldine Studies, San Francisco 1988
Nel Calle della Chiesa avava tenuto per anni la sua stamperia Aldo Manuzio il vecchio Elena Bassi, La Chiesa di Sant’Agostino di Venezia, Venice 1992
It was located on the square at Sant’ Agostino, at the corner of the Calle del Pistor. If this was the structure at San Polo 2343, it still may be viewed H. George Fletcher III, In praise of Aldus Manutius, New York 1995
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Abbot Vincenzo Zenier By the time Abbot Vincenzo Zenier placed his plaque in 1828, it was over 320 years since the Aldine Press had moved to San Paternian in 1506. The abbot was not an art historian, but he was immensely proud of his city and ardently commemorated numerous locations such as the sites of Antonio Canova, Carlo Goldini, Marco Polo, etc. 2311â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frontage is wide and its entry quite grand. On its high piano nobile, there are beautiful Gothic lancet arch windows and a balcony. Although the details at 2343 are characteristic of the 15th century, by comparison it has little ornament. In hindsight the abbot chose a more noble-looking structure, rather than the more likely commercial structure. 28
2311 now has shops at the ground level and apartments above
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ADESSO
Errata
If this building were home to the Aldine Press, its stemma would have most likely been present. Having taken the anchor and dolphin from an ancient coin, Aldus had given the emblem of his Aldine Press much consideration. When Aldus moved his press to San Paternian in 1506 upon his marriage to Torresani, one can imagine that Aldus himself desired its removal to avoid any confusion with his new location. In fact, we know that shortly after his death in 1515, his father-in-law sold books of the Aldine Press â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the Sign of the Anchorâ&#x20AC;? as described in a letter from John Watson at Cambridge to Erasmus 1516 ca. August 13.
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The Aldine anchor is perhaps the most celebrated of all printersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; marks. It is singularly graceful in design, eminently characteristic of the distinguished scholar who first adopted it, and is affixed to a series of works, which contributed more than those of any single printer or family of printers to the progress of learning and literature in Europe. R. C. Christie, Selected Essays and Papers of Richard Copley Christie, London 1902
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SPECIAL THANKS TO Jennifer Schuessler H. George Fletcher III Henry Martin The Emily Harvey Foundation The Cini Foundation The Fashion Institute of Technology / SUNY Ilenia Maschietto Tiziana Plebani Andrea Bizio Gradenigo “Giandri”
AND TO A MOST DELIGHTFUL COLLABORATOR Pierpaolo Pregnolato
IN SEARCH OF ALDUS PIUS MANUTIUS a campo Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostin www.insearchofaldus.org www.knoops.us
Damocle Bookshop, Venice
2018
In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius a campo Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Augostin, Damocle Edizioni, Venice Italy
2018
In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius a campo Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostin, Damocle Edizioni, Venice Italy
2018
Marzo Magno, “L’ERRORE…VENEZIA,” Gazzetino, Venice Edition, November 2
relevant published articles as author 2018 “Distinguished Alumni,” Ten Mile River 90th Anniversary Journal, David Malatzky ed. (New York, NY: GNYC)
relevant published online articles as author 2019
“Martin Puryear ... artist, sculptor, and possibly architect?,” ArchNewsNow,May 30, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature577.htm
2018
“Freespace... The One Word of the 2018 Venice Biennale,” ArchNewsNow, June 7, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature547.htm
2016
“More Heart and Soul than Ever Before: "Reporting from the Front," ArchNewsNow, June 23, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature495.htm
2016 “More than a Building: The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale,” eOculus,June 7, http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/more-than-a-building-the-15th-venice-architecture-biennale/ 2014 “The Great Compilation,” ArchNewsNow,June 17, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature452.htm 2014 “The 14th International Architecture Exhibition,” eOculus, June 18, http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/fundamentals-the-14th-international-architecture-exhibition-ofla-biennale-di-venezia/ 2008 “Out There and alla Veneziana,” eOculus, October 14, www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/2008/2008-10-14.html 2007 “Architecture Inhabits Art at Venice Biennale,” eOculus, June 26 http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/architecture-inhabits-art-at-venice-biennale/ 2007 “Art in Architecture,” Volume 5, June 26, http://www.volume5.com/html/art_in_architecture_at_the_ven.html 2006 “Venice Biennale: Five Impressions,” eOculus, September 19 2006 “Venice Biennale Preview,” eOculus, August 22
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Distinguished Alumni Article, TMR 90th Anniversary Journal Greater New York Councils, Boy Scouts of America
Researched, wrote and edited this article featured in the journal.
2017
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Distinguished Alumni, TMR 90th Anniversary Journal
Scarsdale High School long jump record set in 1946 and still stands), and his long time, dedicated service to the administration and growth of platform tennis, which was invented in Westchester. Justice Albert H. Buschmann – Queens T17, 1913-1984 Buschmann was a Justice of State Supreme Court in Jamaica, Queens. He served in the 11th Armored Division of the Army in World War II and was commissioned a major in the field. He was awarded the Bronze Star and served as both a post and Queens County commander of the American Legion. Charles Joseph “Charlie” Camarda, PhD – Queens, 1952Charlie is an engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space on board the Space Shuttle mission STS-114, NASA’s “return to flight” mission following the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia. He served as Senior Advisor for Engineering Development at NASA Langley Research Center and is now NASA’s Director of Engineering. He holds seven patents on various innovations, including NASA’s Heat-Pipe-Cooled Sandwich Panel, named one of the top 100 technical innovations of 1983 by Industrial Research Magazine. He is a graduate of Archbishop Molloy H.S. and Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn with advanced degrees from George Washington University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Bob Brown Platform Tennis Champion
Lt. Father Vincent Capodanno, USN – Staten Island, 1929-1967 Farther Capodanno was a United States Navy Roman Catholic chaplain and a posthumous recipient of America’s highest military decoration — the Congressional Medal of Honor — for actions during the Vietnam War. Lawrence Joseph Crockett, PhD – Queens T17, 1926-2010 Crockett was a professor, author and botanist who served as president of the Torrey Botanical Society. His writings on the flora of the Unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City brought him international recognition. Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) – The Bronx, 1925-2010 Tony was a film actor whose career spanned 6 decades. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. As a youth, he was the member of a street gang that performed petty crimes, but a friendly neighbor of the family paid to send him to a summer Boy Scout camp which re-channeled his energy and focus. The Curtis Estate wrote us, “He was very proud to be able to recite the Boy Scout Pledge to the end of his life.”
“Charlie” Camarda Astronaut and now NASA’s Director of Engineering
John D’Allara – The Bronx, TMR Staff, 1954-2001 John D’Allara was an Officer in the elite Emergency Service Unit Truck 2 of the New York City Police Department. John’s Unit was one of the first to arrive after the planes had hit the Twin Towers on 9-11. He was posthumously awarded the New York City Police Department’s Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza) - Brooklyn, 1951Tony is an Italian-American actor and former professional boxer. He is best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who’s the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer
Tony Curtis Hollywood legend
Prof. Lawrence M. “Larry” Langer, PhD – Manhattan, 1914-2000 Langer was a nuclear physicist who supervised the final assembly of the first atomic bomb and later told colleagues he slept on top of it to keep it safe the night before it was dropped on Hiroshima. g He spent the night atop “Little Boy,” the first bomb. “Neither the (military police) nor the scientists trusted each other and, as extra security, he said he slept on top of it before the bombing run. During the war he also did work on early versions of radar and sonar. His wartime work represented just a fraction of the important experimental advances he helped make in nuclear physics. After the war, Mr. Langer developed an instrument called a shaped-field spectrometer, a device that allowed him to precisely measure emissions of radioactive nuclei. From those measurements, he and as a student deduced the upper limit of the mass of the neutrino, a finding that stood for 40 years. Prof. Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D. – The Bronx, 1943He is a physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University. Rabbi Aryeh Lev – Brooklyn, 1912-1975 Rabbi Lev received the Legion of Merit in 1972 for his service with the 314th Infantry the Office of the Chief of Chaplains, the Office of the First Army Chaplain and the Army Chaplains School, on various overseas assignments and as “the key military religious consultant to the Chiefs of Chaplains on all Jewish denominational matters.” He was the director of the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board from 1945 to his death. He was honored with the Silver buffalo from GNYC in 1970 and served on the GNYC Jewish Committee and National BSA Jewish Committee. During the 1950’s and early 1960’s he served TMR as the Chief Jewish Chaplain. Lev received the Silver Antelope in 1961. Jay Schnapp’s mother was his secretary. Prof. Michael Lewis, PhD – Brooklyn, 1937Professor Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology at Rutgers University, where he also directs the Institute for the Study of Child Development. Professor Lewis is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association. Among his many honors, his most recent book, The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life, won the 2014 APA William James Book Award. In 2009 he won the APA Division 7 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society, and the 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the scientific body of knowledge and understanding of children’s development. He attended TMR from 1949-1953 and was the Brotherhood Chairman of the Order of the Arrow in 1952-1953. He has a home on Grassy Swamp Road in Narrowsburg, two miles from Rock Lake in TMR and has swam and fished in that lake for over 68 years.
Michael Lewis Distinguished Professor celebrated in developmental psychology
Michael G. Mann Enviormental advocate and educator for urban youth
Marty Markowitz Brooklyn Borough President 20022013
Michael G. Mann – Eagle Scout, Brooklyn T8, † All New York Water Taxis are named for the unsung heroes of the New York Harbor. One such ferry is named in honor of Michael Mann. He was honored for his efforts to bring inner city youth to camp at Gateway National Recreation Area, giving them a natural experience in Jamaica Bay while introducing them to conservation and stewardship, and for his commitment to the waterway through his work with Clearwater. New York City Friends of Clearwater teaches to protect the Hudson River and related waterways and shores, including New York Harbor through education, advocacy, and celebration. He had also been President of the Environmental Education Advisory Council (EEAC) the only nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of promoting and supporting outstanding environmental education in New York City schools and other centers for learning. His widow, Marcia KaplanMann set up a college scholarship for Boy Scouts in New York City. Marty Markowitz – Brooklyn, 1945He was Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City and was first elected in 2001 after serving 23 years as a New York State Senator. He served as Borough President from 2002 to 2013. During the Blackout of 2003, he stood on the Brooklyn Bridge as throngs of fellow Brooklynites trudged home from work in Manhattan, holding a megaphone and cheering “Welcome home to Brooklyn!” to thunderous applause. He repeated this during the 2005 New York City transit strike, inviting Brooklynites into Borough Hall for warm drinks and a chance to call loved ones. He founded and hosts the Seaside Summer Concert Series (begun in 1979), New York City’s largest free weekly concert series, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert Series (started in 1983), the nation’s largest free public concerts for African American and Caribbean audiences. Boyd “Rainmaker” Melson – Brooklyn, Aquehonga Staff, 1981Melson is a light middleweight boxer. As an amateur, Melson won the 48th World Military Boxing Championship gold medal in the 69 kg. weight class, and was a four-time United States Army champion, a three-time NCBA AllAmerican boxer, a four-time West Point Brigade Open Boxing Champion, and received the Colonel Marcus Award. He also won gold medals at the All Army Boxing Championships twice and at the Armed Forces Boxing Championships twice. He made it to the quarterfinals in the welterweight 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and won a bronze medal at the 2005 US Amateur Boxing Championships. As a professional, through May 2015, Melson was 15–1–1, with 4 of his wins coming by knockout. Melson became a professional in 2010 to raise research funds to honor a woman who had been his girlfriend. She had been in a wheelchair for 17 years, since the age of 10, following a diving accident. They had met during his senior year at West Point, when she was already using a wheelchair due to a diving accident. Melson donates all of the money that he earns in his boxing matches to stem cell research and his efforts have been profiled on Emmy Award winning HBO series Real Sports, ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Brendan Morrocco – Staten Island, 1987As an Army Infantryman in Iraq Morocco’s jeep was hit with an armor piercing roadside bomb in 2009. He was the first person to lose all four limbs in Iraq/Afghanistan and survive his injuries. He was the first serviceman have a double arm transplant. While a Scout at AQ, he twice shot an arrow and hit the bull’s eye. Each time, he followed it up by splitting the arrow already
“Rainmaker” Melson Champion boxer, fundraiser and National Jewish Sports Hall of Famer
Tito Puente Grammy award winning Latin jazz legend
Ray “Konga” Richardson Buglers Hall of Famer
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"Freespace"... The One Word of the 2018 Venice Biennale, the 16th Exhibition of Architecture A survey of just 10 of the 65 national pavilions chosen for their translation of "Freespace" - and in no particular order other than my own itinerary.
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Saudi Arabia – “Spaces in Between”
By Johannes M. P. Knoops, Assoc. AIA, FAAR June 7, 2018
As Kenneth Frampton pointed out in his acceptance of the 2018 Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Freespace had previously been known as two words, but his stated admiration for how the Irish use English has him embracing the term. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, are the curators of this year’s Biennale. Together they crafted a multi-faceted manifesto that reads well: To summarize, Freespace is a generous space in its programmatic ambitions, loaded with monetary, psychological, and social freedoms&hellipunsegregated space with the potential to “bind past, present, and future together.” While anticipating a wide range of translations, the diverse results may have exceeded the curators’ expectations. This is my survey of just 10 of the 65 national pavilions. Chosen for their translation of Freespace – and in no particular order other than my own itinerary:
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Argentina – “Vertigo Horizontal”
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Finland – “Mind Building”
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Israel – “In Statu Quo: Architecture of Negotiation”
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Russia – “Station Russia”
Saudi Arabia – “Spaces in Between” Location: Arsenale http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature547.htm
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Kenneth Frampton, a New York Lion ... now a Golden Lion of the Venice Architecture Biennale
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As the Ware Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he has taught since 1972, he has shaped more than one generation of architects. By Johannes M.P. Knoops, Assoc. AIA, FAAR June 7, 2018
Last week, a prestigious Golden Lion was bestowed upon Kenneth Frampton at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale di Venezia, not for any single achievement, but for a life of achievements. Though already recognized as an intellectual lion here in New York City, Ken Frampton more than deserves this global celebration.
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(l-r): Paolo Baratta, President, La Biennale di Venezia; Kenneth Frampton; Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, co-curators of the 2018 Architecture Biennale.
Upon the recommendation of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition and the approval of the Board of La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, Frampton was bestowed a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. In a Biennale whose theme is framed by the term “Freespace,” the curators note: “[Frampton] stands out as the voice of truth in the promotion of key values of architecture and its role in society. His humanistic philosophy in relation to architecture is embedded in his writing, and he has consistently argued for this humanistic component throughout all the various ‘movements’ and trends often misguided in http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature548.htm
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The Great Compilation: 14th International Exhibition of Architecture di la Biennale di Venezia
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Rem Koolhaas has irrevocably changed the Venice Biennale's focus away from starchitects to architecture itself. Indeed, I left impressed and invigorated, but curious as to what might follow. By Johannes M.P. Knoops, FAAR, Assoc. AIA July 17, 2014 Johannes M.P. Knoops
With S, M, L, XL, Rem Koolhaas re-defined how we examine architecture, and in many ways its implications may be his most critical contribution to history. Differing from Delirious New York, the book S, M, L, XL defined a new modus operandi in presenting architecture. It embraced and deployed the ease associated with digital representation. The book compiled images, sketches, diary excerpts, and essays into a single aggregate accumulation. Relying on compilation as a method to compose his book, Koolhaas provided us with the opportunity to draw comparisons across various modes of representation. Compilation often displaced the necessity for written text, and permitted a nonlinear story line. Ultimately his book elevated compilation into a way of thinking.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elements of Architectureâ&#x20AC;?
As Edward Tufte, the father of info-graphics, implored us: eliminate the ornament, use a common visual language, place your data adjacent, visualize the quantitative information, but above all be factual, truthful, and clear. In many ways this Venice Biennale can be http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature452.htm
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relevant curatorial experience 20162017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14
Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camps Museum Board, Member, Exhibitions Committee, GNYC, BSA, NY, NY School of Art and Design, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee School of Art and Design, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee School of Art and Design, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee School of Art and Design, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee School of Art and Design, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum Rennovation Narrowsburg, New York
I developed a new panel display system and deck inserts for the existing cases along with a new layout for the museum. This includes labels, text panels images on large banners and images printed on alumninum.
2017
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, Narrowsburg, NY
2017
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, Narrowsburg, NY
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2017
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, Narrowsburg, NY
Johannes M.P. Knoops 415 Grand Street, E-902, New York, NY 10002 E: jmpknoops@mac.com T: 917-251-4596
SK-02 ELEVATIONS Revised: 1.20.17
2017
Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, Narrowsburg, NY
“New Views”
Faculty Exhibition Committee Chair and designer of “New Views the 2016 Art and Design Faculty Exhibition”. With approximately 100 participants this is one of our most inclusive exhibitions ever. As designer I constructed a model with each entry to scale and composed the layout and worked with our Museum Staff. I also constructed a digital SketchUp model to mock up the design. The 2018 exhibition featured floating grey paper panels.
Graphics by Christie Shin & C.J. Yeh
2016
“New Views” Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
2016
“New Views” Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
2016
“New Views” Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
relevant presentations and lectures 2017 2006 2003 2003 2002 2001 2001
Personal Body Research, FIT new faculty orientation Congress of International Modern Architects (CIMA), New York, NY 91st Meeting of the Association Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Louisville, KY History: an argument against preservation, CCNY Architecture Lunchtime Lecture Series History: an argument against preservation, NYIT Architecture Lunchtime Lecture Series New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus, NY Catholic University Rome Program, Palazzo Pio, Rome
2018
Personal Body of Research Presentation, FIT New Faculty Orientation
2018
Personal Body of Research Presentation, FIT New Faculty Orientation
2018
Personal Body of Research Presentation, FIT New Faculty Orientation
relevant honors and distinctions 2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2013 Faculty Excellence Award, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY 2005 AIA Honor Award, Unbuilt Architecture, Boston Society of Architects / AIA Boston Chapter (Pools of Pleasure) Jury: Henry Moss, Rebecca Barns, Skip Burck, John Hong, Marilys Mepomechie, Juan Franco Violich and Nick Winton 2002 AIA Award, Unbuilt Architecture, Boston Society of Architects / AIA Boston Chapter (Kinetic Fantasies) Jury: Robert Campbell, Brian Healy, George Marsh, Laura Miller, Henry Moss and George Thrush
design competitions – won 2010 Kinetic Architecture Competition, “Raise the Roof”, Uni-Systems (Kinetic Fantasies)
– People’s Choice
2018
SUNY Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, FIT
Fashion Institute of Technology State University of New York
Faculty Excellence Award 2013 Johannes M. P. Knoops Associate Professor Interior Design Department School of Art and Design
SUNY
Dr. Joyce F. Brown, President
2010
Raise the Roof Competition by Uni-Systems, Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Award
2005
ArchitectureBoston, AIA Honor Award, catagory “Unbuilt Architecture”
2002
ArchitectureBoston, AIA Design Award, catagory “Unbuilt Architecture”
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“Urban Field Study” trips Students construct a 4-min. documentary movie of a 20th c. interior designer Engaged seminar activities o Quizes in the form of a game or puzzle o Various in-class challenges o Multi-modal analysis exercises o Bring in an exercise of design Coordinate the course HTC III
Johannes M. P. Knoops 415 Grand Street, E-902, New York, New York 10002-4723 917 251-4596 | jmpknoops@mac.com | www.knoops.us USA and Netherlands passports | March 24, 1962 New York, New York Associate Professor, Interior Design Department, Fashion Institute of Technology / State University of New York 227 West 27th Street, D-308, New York, New York 10001 revised:11.11.20
Motivated by issues of memory and place I explore hidden urban narratives. Widely exhibited and published, these speculations have been honored with a variety of awards. As a tenured Professor at FIT/SUNY I share my passion for how a design to communicates meaning. In addition to my personal research, I maintain a multi-disciplinary design practice here on New York’s Lower East Side.
Education 1995 1987 1980
Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, Post-professional Master of Architecture Pratt Institute, Department of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY, Baccalaureate of Architecture with honors Archbishop Molloy High School, Briarwood, Queens, NY
Academic Positions 20202014-20 2010-14 2007-10 2005-08 2001-04 2001-04 2001-03 2001
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Interior Design, Professor Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Interior Design, Associate Professor Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Interior Design, Assistant Professor (tenured) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Interior Design, Assistant Professor (tenure track) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Interior Design, Part-time Faculty Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, School of Architecture, Visiting Assistant Professor City College of New York, City University of New York, School of Architecture, Adjunct New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Adjunct Pratt Institute Rome Program, Italy, School of Architecture, Visiting Assistant Professor
Named Fellowships of Independent Research Bogliasco Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy (5 weeks) Fellows are conferred with the post-nominal letters “BF,” for Bogliasco Fellow. 1999-00 Rome Prize in Architecture, Mercedes T. Bass Fellow, American Academy in Rome (1 year) Jury: Charles Gwathmey - Chair, Robert A.M. Stern, Todd Williams and Margaret Holben Ellis Fellows are conferred with the post-nominal letters “FAAR,” for Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. 1996 Catherine Boettcher Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (1 month) 1991 John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellow, National Institute for Architectural Education and the American Academy in Rome (6 months) Jury: Wendy Evans, Robert Kupiec, Toshiko Mori, James Stewart Polshek and John J. Stonehill 1986 William van Alen Architect Memorial Fellow, National Institute for Architectural Education (6 months) Jury: Byron Bell - Chair, Ashok Bhavnani, Dr. Kadri M.G. El Araby, Robert Fox, Jr., Abraham Geller, Marion Geller, Michael Manfredi, H. Dickenson McKenna, Nancy Miao, John James Pron, Beverly Russell, Stanley Salzman, Gerald Schiff, Alan Schwartzman, Sidney Shelov, Jay Sam Unger, Maximillian Spell, John Stonehill and Bart Voorsenger 2019
Honors and Distinctions 2018 2013 2011 2009 2009 2006 2005 2002 1992 1987 1987 1987 1979
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York Faculty Excellence Award, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY International Design Award, Silver Award in Architecture Conceptual category (Windscraper) Jury: Josh Rubin, Hans Fonk, Lise Coirier, Aaron Kenedi, William Menking and Alice Blackwood AIA Merit Award, Projects, AIA New York Chapter (Marriage Bureau) Jury: Peter Chermayeff, Rahul Mehrotra and Dominique Perrault Concept Award, Contract Magazine (Marriage Bureau) Jury: Cat Lindsay, Philip G. Freelon, Jennifer Luce and James Biber AIA Honor Award, Unbuilt Architecture, Boston Society of Architects / AIA Boston Chapter (Tsunami Memorial) Jury: Henry Moss, Michael Cannizzo, Phoebe Crisman, Natasha Espada, Deborah Fennick, Peter Lofgren and J. Meejin Yoon AIA Honor Award, Unbuilt Architecture, Boston Society of Architects / AIA Boston Chapter (Pools of Pleasure) Jury: Henry Moss, Rebecca Barns, Skip Burck, John Hong, Marilys Mepomechie, Juan Franco Violich and Nick Winton AIA Award, Unbuilt Architecture, Boston Society of Architects / AIA Boston Chapter (Kinetic Fantasies) Jury: Robert Campbell, Brian Healy, George Marsh, Laura Miller, Henry Moss and George Thrush Architectural League Prize (formally: “Young Architect’s Forum”), Architectural League of New York Jury: Paul Byard, Beatriz Colomina, Stanley Saitowitz, Mack Scogin, George Boyle, Craig Konyk and William MacDonald AIA School Gold Medal, from the Henry Adams Fund, for excellence in the study of architecture, American Institute of Architects and the Pratt Institute Certificate for Outstanding Excellence in Design, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture Certificate for Outstanding Service to School, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, Troop 300, Elmhurst, Queens Council #644
Sabbatical 2018-19 FIT/SUNY, awarded a 1-year sabbatical to pursue research and writing on the true location of the first printing press of Aldus Pius Manutius in 15th c. Venice, combined with travels to UNESCO places of memory
Colloquium of Independent Research 2012
National Endowment for the Humanities, 5-week NEH Summer Seminar “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome,” American Academy in Rome, Italy, comprised of walks, talks, readings, discussions and independent research. Consisting of 16 University professors from various disciplines. I represented FIT/SUNY by advocating the power of design in communicating a culture’s identity and ambition. Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Seminar Director and Michael Maas, Rice University – Seminar Co-Director.
Residencies of Independent Research 2021 2019 2019 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2008 1999 1996 1995
Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy, (2.5 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (2 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (1.5 weeks) American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (5 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (3 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (7 weeks) Branca Center at the Cini Foundation, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (5 weeks) Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (3 weeks) MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, juried reviewed application
Grants 2018 2017 2012 2011 1995
FIT’s Faculty Grant, in support of “Oculi” at Design.VE, Venice, Italy FIT’s Faculty Grant, in support of research for a memorial to Aldus Pius Manutius to Venice, Italy FIT’s Teaching Institute Merit Award, to the NEH Summer Seminar, “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome” FIT’s Teaching Institute Merit Award, to attend Edward Tufte’s seminar, “Presenting Data and Information” Graham Foundation Grant in the Fine Arts, for the publication “A+A+...” a remembered history of Paul Rudolph’s Art + Architecture Building at Yale
Professional Certifications 2013
NCIDQ, Nationally Council for Interior Design Qualification, Certificate Number 29883
Select Design Commissions 2018-19 2018-19 2018 2016-17 2016 2015 2014 2013 2009-13 2011 2009-10 2009-10 2008-10 2008-09 2008-09 2008-09 2008 2008 2007 2006-07 2006-07 20062006-07 2006-07 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005 2004-05 2004 2004 2003 2002-03 2002 1999-03 1998 1998 1993 1993 1993
Weis Family Residence, built-in units, lighting, finishes, Battery Park City, NY — under construction Eagle Scout Jamil Ahmed Memorial Cook Station, Alpine Scout Camp, Alpine, NJ — under construction Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, ADA compliant restroom, Narrowsburg, NY — completed Ten Mile River Scout Camps Museum, new display system and exhibit design, Narrowsburg, NY — completed Maloney Family, apartment renovation, New York, NY — completed Yehuda Cohen, master bedroom expansion, New York, NY — study Doris Bergman, a kitchen/dining/storage renovation, New York, NY — completed Surfside, a renovation of a hurricane ravaged shore house, Lavallette, NJ — unrealized One-20-Eight Main Street, community landmark restaurant, Gardiner, NY — completed 4H Loft, 2100 SF loft renovation, SoHo, NY — completed Roofscape, a contextual carport for a national landmark, Brykill Estate, Wallkill, NY — completed A Sunny Outlook, a luminous summerhouse tower addition and site plan, Lavallette, NJ — study Wrapper, bedroom insertion… headboard/nightstand/workstation/library, Chelsea, NY — unrealized Weis Private Study, walnut and leather-paneled, New York, NY — completed New Hamlet, planning for a 44-unit residential development, Gardiner, NY — study Tietler, loft renovation, New York, NY — unrealized Friedman Loft, dining/children insertion, New York, NY — completed Jacobson Family, 4 bedroom suite, floor plan, New York, NY — completed Sloss/Boss, 2 bedroom apartment renovation, New York, NY — completed Weis Family Library, New York, NY — completed Friedman Law Group LLP, offices, New York, NY Saulson, 6000 SF house on Georgica Road, East Hampton, NY — study Baumberger, apartment renovation, New York, NY — completed Prager, Loft, Forward Building, New York, NY — completed Project 5H, apartment renovation, New York, NY —unrealized Segalla, a 3 bedroom apartment, New York, NY — study Trett Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY, in collaboration with Brian Kaye —unrealized Eagles Perch, apartment for Jordan Eagles, New York, NY —study Zen Mini-Loft, apartment, New York, NY — completed William Lipton Ltd, Asian art gallery casework and exhibitions, The Fuller Building, New York, NY — completed Nugent Roof Terrace, New York, NY, in collaboration with Frances Levine Landscape Designer — completed Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, Japanese Fine Art exhibitions for the Winter Antique Show and Asian Art Fair, New York, NY — completed Reinstallation of Assyrian Reliefs, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT — completed Lewis Bernard, private study for a collection of 18th c. Japanese scrolls, Beresford Apts, New York, NY — completed Project Boxfarm, bed and breakfast renovation and an addition, Watermill, NY, in collaboration with Duncan Reid —study Conway-Milgrim Memorial, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration with Joyce Kozloff artist — completed Irving Place, lobby renovation, New York, NY — completed Antiques Gallery, 7000 sq ft renovation, New York, NY, in collaboration with Randolph Pregibon —unrealized Kidz, a toy showroom, New York, NY — completed Productive Park Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY — completed Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller Center retail installations, New York, NY — completed
1993 1993 1993 1992
Diane von Furstenberg, a set design for the cable TV network QVC, West Chester, PA — completed Henri Bendels, atrium installations for Randolph Duke, Byron Lars, Anna Sui, Maria Snyder, Todd Oldham and Nicole Miller, New York, NY — completed Annual Awards Exhibition, National Institute for Architectural Education, New York, NY — completed Leonx Hill Hospital AIDs Ward, a roof garden, New York, NY —unrealized
Additional Related Experience 1995-99 Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, New York, NY, Senior Designer · Mohegan Sun, hotel tower, Uncasville, CT · Roppongi, tower, lobby, hotel, retail and cinema, Tokyo, Japan · Baruch College, recital hall, cafeteria, New York, NY 1994-95 Kohn Pedersen Fox Interior Architects, New York, NY, Designer · QVC Headquarters Competition, West Chester, PA · NYMEX Headquarters Competition, New York, NY · Samsung Seocho Tower, executive suite and boardroom, Seoul, Korea —unrealized 1993 Susan Orsini Design Associates, New York, NY, Junior Designer · Daybreak, Robert Day Residence · O’Melveny & Myers, elevator lobbies, Los Angeles, CA 1992-93 Byrd Hassman Interior Design, New York, NY, Junior Designer · Café Figaro, New York, NY, unrealized · Koors Residence, landscape and pool deck 1989 Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, Exhibition Designer, concept team · Project Seapride, 1988 Gaetano Pesce Architect, Venice, Italy, Collaborator · Project for a Bank 1986-93 Ed Weinberger, Furniture Design, New York, NY, Collaborator 1985-94 David Harvey Exhibition Design, New York, NY, Senior Designer · Chinese Porcelain Company, gallery, New York, NY · Austin Recording Studios, Austin, TX · Gianni Versace (exhibition), Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY · Horst (exhibition), Henri Bendels, New York, Boston, Chicago and Columbus · Lalique (exhibition), Henri Bendels, New York, NY · Winter Antique Show, trade booths for Leigh Keno, Alexander Gallery and The Chinese Porcelain Co. · Various exhibitions at the Asia Society, New York, NY inc. Floating World and Chinese Scholar’s Rocks 1985 Jeff Vandeberg Architect, New York, NY, Junior Designer · Saifer Residence · Various kitchen renovations 1984-91 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Design, New York, NY, Exhibition Designer · Irving Collection of Early Indian and Southeast Asian Art · Painting in Renaissance Siena (exhibition) · Boscotrecase Wall Paintings, the Roman and Cypriot Corridor · African Art Corridor Assisted on the following exhibitions: It All Begins with a Dot, Van Gogh in Arles, Nuremberg, Holy Land, 20th Century Design Galleries, Byzantine Corridor, David Hockney: a Retrospective, Gelman Collection, Degas, Goya, Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Velázquez, Hotung Jade Gallery, The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Folon's Folon, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Levy Collection, India!, Mexico, Cantor Sculpture Court, 19th-Century Galleries, etc..
Design Competitions – Won 2011 2010 2005 1999 1997 1995 1995 1994 1992 1992
1991 1990 1990 1989 1987 1986
International Design Awards, Conceptual Architecture category (Windscraper) – Silver Award Kinetic Architecture Competition, “Raise the Roof”, Uni-Systems (Kinetic Fantasies) – People’s Choice New York NOW, AIA New York Chapter (Nugent) – People’s Choice Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome – Rome Prize Fellow Jury: Charles Gwathmay, Robert A.M. Stern, Todd Williams and Dorothy Mills Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome – First Alternate Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome – Finalist Greenwich Initiative Prize, Yale University – Initiative Prize Reception Competition, Yale School of Architecture – Second Place Steedman Fellowship Traveling Competition, Washington University – Finalist Jury: Fumiihiko Maki, Christian Hermansen, George Nikolajevich, Merril Elam and Ianin Fraser Productive Park Competition: New Waterworks as Neighborhood – Selected Resources, Architectural League of New York, Parks Council, and New York City Department of Environmental Protection . Jury Chair: Elizabeth Meyer John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship Competition, National Institute – Dinkeloo Fellow for Architectural Education and the American Academy in Rome Jury: Wendy Evans, Robert Kupiec, Toshiko Mori, James Stewart Polshek and John J. Stonehill New York City Police Memorial, Battery Park City Authority – Third Place Atlas Missile Silos Competition, Storefront for Art + Architecture – Selected Jury: Vito Acconci, Neil Denari, Elizabeth Diller, Patricia Phillips and Lebbeus Woods Diomede Island Competition, PS 1’s Clock Tower Gallery. Jury Chair: Glen Weiss – Selected Progressive Architecture’s Furniture Competition, PA magazine (Swing Arm Lamp) – Editor’s Choice Jury: Bruce Burdick, Jeffrey Osborne, Eva Jiricna, Paul Haigh and Michael Kalil William van Alen Architect Memorial Fellowship Competition, – Van Alen Fellow National Institute for Architectural Education (Taj Mahal) Jury: Byron Bell, Ashok Bhavnani, Dr. Kadri M.G. El Araby, Robert Fox, Jr., Abraham Geller, Marion Geller, Michael Manfredi, H. Dickenson McKenna, Nancy Miao, John James Pron, Beverly Russell, Stanley Salzman, Gerald Schiff, Alan Schwartzman, Sidney Shelov, Jay Sam Unger, Maximillian Spell, John Stonehill and Bart Voorsenger
1986 1984
Progressive Architecture’s Furniture Competition, PA magazine (House Lamp) Jury: Paul Haigh, Margaret McCurry, Stuart Wrede, William Stumpf and Perry A. King Pelham Gateway Competition, New York State Council on the Arts and NIDC (National Initiatives Development Corporation) Jury Chair: Bart Voorsenger
– Honorable Mention – Student Second Place
Design Competitions – Entered 2020 2015 2014 2014 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2008 2006 2006 2005 2001 2000 1998 1996 1996 1996 1996 1995 1994 1994 1994 1993 1990 1990 1987
Rockefeller Center Flag Project – Celebrating New York, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY World War I Memorial Competition, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Competition, Christchurch, New Zealand Nelson Mandela Competition, Skylawn, CA Innovation by Design, Fast Company (Windscraper Coney Island) AIM2011: Post Industry Age, Green Transformation, Architecture In Mission (Windscraper Beijing) Unbuilt Architecture Design Competition, Boston Society of Architects (Windscraper Coney Island) d3 2011 Housing Tomorrow Competition, d3 space, New York, NY (Windscraper Coney Island) AIANY Design Awards, unbuilt catagory, New York, NY (Windscraper Coney Island) Skyscraper 2011, eVolo, (Windscraper Coney Island) Total Housing 01: Apartments, Architizer, Storefront for Art+Architecture, &, Actar (Windscraper Island) Rome CityVision, CityVision Magazine, Rome, Italy (Kinetic Fantasies) Unbuilt Architecture Design Competition, Boston Society of Architects (Marriage Bureau) Accademia Bridge-Museum, Arquitectum Urban Competition (Below the Putti) Memorial for the Tsunami Disaster Victims, Norway Flight 93 Memorial, Somerset, Pennsylvania Pleasantville MetroNorth Rail Station Competition, New York City Mass Transit Authority (Wings of Mercury) 7th International Architecture Exhibition, Less Aesthetics More Ethics, La Biennale di Venezia (Site Memories) Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome Paris Prize in Public Architecture, Van Alen Institute Petrosino Park Redevelopment Design Competition, Storefront for Art and Architecture, City of New York Parks and Recreation and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University (2-way Take-out) Paris Prize Competition, National Institute for Architectural Education Rome Prize Fellowship Competition, American Academy in Rome Mailbox Competition, Yale School of Architecture Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University (3-wing Government) Public Toilet Competition, Architectural League of New York and Vermont Slate Company John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship Competition, National Institute for Architectural Education and the American Academy in Rome Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University (School Addition) Lloyd Warren Fellowship, 74th Paris Prize, National Institute for Architectural Education (Sun tracking)
Exhibitions 2020
OCCA@40 Invitational Online Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (Joe and Alf)
2020 2019
Salone… an evening of performance, visual arts + design, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, curated by the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome (Venice Re-Mapped, edited) POSTPONED Picturing Space… artists imagine architecture, Art and Design Gallery, FIT, New York, NY, Anne Finkelstein curator – catalog
2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006
Rome Revisited, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, curated by Carolyn Yarnell (Venice Pairing) Design.VE, Palazzo Morosini-Garterberg, Venice, Italy, Luca Berta, Francesca Giubilei and Alice Stori curators (Oculi) – catalog New Views, FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Great Hall (Venetian Pairing) Self Portraits, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (Collage) New Views, FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Great Hall (Pantheon Shell) Monochrome, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT (Your are Not Here) TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Palazzo Mora, Rene Rietmeyer curator (Venice Re-Mapped) – catalog New Views, FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Great Hall (WWI Memorial) Mechanisms of Memory, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (Postcards from an Alternative Venice) New Views, FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Great Hall (Mandela) Morphos–Sustainable Empires international art festival, Luca Curci curator, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy (Windscraper Venezia) Personse, Archivo Emily Harvey Foundation, Berty Skuber curator, Venice, Italy (Janus Mask) New Views, FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Great Hall (128 Main) Liquid Borders, international art festival, Fausta Maria Bolettieri and Luca Curci Curators, Bari, Italy (Venice Re-Mapped) Smart Cities Hybrid Identities, International ArtExpo, Luca Curci curator, Venice, Italy (Venice Re-Mapped) Transformation, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (2-way light) Fantastic, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY (Venice Re-Mapped) TIMEless, Pacific Design Center Los Angeles, CA (Kinetic Fantasies video) - catalog New Work, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (Windscraper Coney Island) Lightness, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY (Paralite) Metal Transfigured, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY (Mercury’s Bench) Layered and Transparent Visions, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (Trett) AIA New York Design Awards, Center for Architecture, New York, NY (Marriage Bureau) Diversity Expo, FIT Great Hall Corridor, New York, NY (Marriage Bureau) Execution, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY (Marriage Bureau) – catalog The Grid, FIT Faculty and Employee Exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY (NYT self portrait) New York NOW, AIA Center for Architecture, New York, NY (Prager & Tsunami Memorial) Reunion: Work by Pratt Alumni, Steuben South Gallery at Pratt Institute, NY (Tsunami Memorial) DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Open Studio 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY Unbuilt Architecture at Build Boston, World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA (Tsunami Memorial) Accademia Bridge-Museum, Arquitectum Competition, at IUAV, Venice, Italy (Accademia Bridge)
http://www.occca.org/2020-06.html#gallery
(Future Memories)
2006 2006 2005 2005 2005 2005 2004 2002 2000 1999 1996 1994 1992 1992 1992 1992 1990 1990 1990 1989
1986 1986 1984 1968
Memorial for the tsunami disaster victims, Teatergata/Munchs Gate, Oslo, Norway (Tsunami Memorial) Congress of International Modern Architects Exhibition, Paul Rodgers Gallery, New York, NY (Evoking Obsolete Devices) Janus Exhibition, commemorating the opening of the new Fendi Flagship store and the initiation of the American Academy in Rome’s new Fellowship in Fashion, Fendi, New York, NY – catalog Unbuilt Architecture at Build Boston, World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA (Pools of Pleasure) New York NOW, AIA Center for Architecture, New York, NY (Nugent) Flight 93 Memorial, Georgian Place, Somerset, Pennsylvania (Flight 93 Memorial) Alumni and Faculty NCARB Exhibitions, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Unbuilt Architecture at Build Boston, World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA (Kinetic Fantasies) Annual Fellows Exhibition, American Academy in Rome – catalog A Rome Prize Portfolio, Higgins Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University, MO (3-wing Government) – catalog A+A+..., Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University Productive Park, Urban Center Galleries, Architectural League of New York and Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute, NY On Hold, 11th Annual Young Architects Forum, Urban Center Galleries, Architectural League of New York Annual Awards Exhibition, National Institute for Architectural Education, New York, NY Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University, MO – catalog Project Atlas: An International Competition and Forum, Adirondack Center Museum, NY Project Atlas: An International Competition and Forum, Storefront for Art + Architecture Juried: Steedman Fellowship Competition, Washington University, MO (School Extension) – catalog Juried: Diomede Island Competition, PS 1’s Clock Tower Gallery, NY. Traveled to University of Washington, University of Oregon and San Francisco State University. Currators: Glen Weiss and Yuri Gnedovsky Progressive Architecture’s Furniture Competition, International Design Center of New York (House Lamp) Juried: Progressive Architecture’s Furniture Competition, the International Design Center of Boston (House Lamp) Juried: Pelham Gateway Competition, Pelham Community Center, Bronx, NY NYC Public Schools, Lever House, New York, NY, representing P.S. 102 (Crossing Guard)
Published — Book as Author 2018
2015
In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius… a campo Sant’Agostin, (Venice: Domacle Edizioni, 2018) ISBN 978-88-943223-2-3 The book disputes the celebrated first location of the Aldine Press to clearly identify its true location through historical evidence. This publication results from my sabbatical work and has led the Comune di Venezia to recognize the site, which will soon be commemorated with a new memorial plaque. Published in a limited edition of 200 hand-stitched signed copies. History… an argument against preservation, (Palo Alto, CA: ISSUU, 2015) Pushing the boundaries of preservation to reveal more than existing building fabric, this thesis is illustrated through proposed additions to 3 historic sites in Rome. Metaphor, narration and wit serve as primary tools. This publication results from a 1999-00 Rome Prize Fellowship. [Self –published online: https://issuu.com/knoops/docs/history]
Published — Article as Author 2018
“Distinguished Alumni,” Ten Mile River 90th Anniversary Journal, David Malatzky ed. (New York, NY: GNYC)
Published — Online Reviews as Author 2019
“Martin Puryear ... artist, sculptor, and possibly architect?,” ArchNewsNow,May 30, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature577.htm
2018
“Freespace... The One Word of the 2018 Venice Biennale,” ArchNewsNow, June 7, http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature547.htm
2016
“More Heart and Soul than Ever Before: "Reporting from the Front," ArchNewsNow, June 23,
2016
“More than a Building: The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale,” eOculus,June 7,
2014
“The Great Compilation,” ArchNewsNow,June 17,
2014
“The 14th International Architecture Exhibition,” eOculus, June 18,
2008
“Out There and alla Veneziana,” eOculus, October 14,
2007
“Architecture Inhabits Art at Venice Biennale,” eOculus, June 26
2007
“Art in Architecture,” Volume 5, June 26,
2006 2006
“Venice Biennale: Five Impressions,” eOculus, September 19 “Venice Biennale Preview,” eOculus, August 22
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature495.htm http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/more-than-a-building-the-15th-venice-architecture-biennale/ http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature452.htm http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/fundamentals-the-14th-international-architecture-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/ www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/2008/2008-10-14.html http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/architecture-inhabits-art-at-venice-biennale/ http://www.volume5.com/html/art_in_architecture_at_the_ven.html
Published — Illustrations for Catalogs 2002 1995 1990 1988
Papers of the Netherlands Institute in Rome, Focusing on the Celebrant: The Column Display inside Santa Prassade, article by Judson J. Emerick Litemakers, product catalog Italian Renaissance Frames, Metropolitan Museum exhibition catalog Art of the Dogon, Metropolitan Museum exhibition catalog
Writings in Progress In Search of Abbott Zenier, a survey of the commemorative plaques installed by Abbott Vincenzo Zenier and his efforts to celebrate notable Venetians during a time of foreign occupation in the early 19th century. A+A+..., a remembered history of Paul Rudolph’s Art + Architecture Building at Yale, exploring its perception and significance through a collection of interviews, images and excerpts
Published Projects and Reviews of Work — Books & Journals 2019 2011 2009 2007 2007 1999 1994 1990
Neil Anthony Harris, “Recent Books / Manutiana,” The Library, Oxford University Press, Vol. XX: No. 1, March, Pg. 126 Book review of In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius a campo Sant’Agostin, (Venice, Italy: Domacle Edizioni 2018). International Design Awards Book, IDA publisher (Windscraper) A. Richard Williams, FAIA, Archipelago: Critiques of Contemporary Architecture and Education, (Swiss Guard Memorial) Amanda Lam & Amy Thomas, Convertible Living, Gibbs Smith publisher (Zen Mini-Loft) Matt Lake, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, Weird Pennsylvania Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, (Conway Memorial) Elizabeth Meyer, Productive Park: Infrastructure as Public Resource, Princeton Architectural Press publisher “Texas Courthouse” and “Central Park,” Retrospecta, Yale School of Architecture publisher “Cemetery Extension,” Pratt Journal of Architecture, vol. II, Rizzoli publisher
Published Projects and Reviews of Work — Periodicals 2018
2018 2017 2009 2009 2008 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2003 2000 1994 1994 1992 1992 1992 1990 1989 1987 1986 1986 1986
Marzo Magno, “L'ERRORE…VENEZIA C'è da spostare una lapide: quella che indica la prima stamperia di Aldo Manuzio” (trans.: ERROR... VENICE There is a marker to move: the one that indicates the first printing press of Aldo Manuzio), Gazzetino, Venice Edition, Italy, November 2, 2018, Pg. 25 (Aldus Pius Manutius) Jonathan Vatner, “Finding Aldus,” HUE The Magazine of FIT, Spring, Vol. XI: No. 2, Pg. 12-13 (Aldus Pius Manutius) Jonathan Vatner, “A Mental Map of Venice,” HUE The Magazine of FIT, Winter, Vol. X: No. 3, Pg. 5 (Venice Remapped) Kristen Richards, “2009 Design Awards,” Oculus, Summer (Marriage Bureau) AnnMarie Marano, “Interior Award Competition,” Contract Magazine, January (Marriage Bureau) Eric V. Copage, “Four Designers Create Plans for the New Wedding Bureau,” New York Magazine, June 15 (Marriage Bureau) “Design Awards,” ArchitectureBoston, January/February (Tsunami Memorial) Carole Nicksin, “Object Fixation,” Home, December (Washington Ave) Susan Hines, “Norway’s Memento Mori for Tsunami Victims,” Landscape Architecture, November (Tsunami Memorial) Alex Beam “The greatest stories never told,” Herald Tribune, January 12 (Pools of Pleasure) “Design Awards,” ArchitectureBoston, January/February (Pools of Pleasure) Wendy Goodman, “The Secret City,” New York Magazine, October 10 (Origami Room) “Design Awards,” ArchitectureBoston, January/February (Kinetic Fantasies) Furio Colombo, “L’America dei nuovi talenti,” La Republica, July 24 (AAR Exhibit) Holland Cotter, “A Watershed Event at the Met,” The New York Times, April 10 (Irving Galleries) Nirmal Mitra, “Met Readies Vast S. Asian Display,” India Abroad, April 1, Vol. XXIV: No. 27, Pg. 45 (Irving Galleries) Patricia Phillips, “On Hold,” ArtForum, September “Viva Versace,” Interior Design, November, Pg. 40 (FIT Versace Exhibit) Rowan Gaither, “Hold that Building,” New York Magazine, April 20 C. Hotaling, “Abandoned Silos,” Lake Placid News, August 15 (Project Atlas) Kay Larson, “Fall into the Gap,” New York Magazine, June 5 (Diomede Islands) “7th Annual Furniture Competition,” Progressive Architecture, May (Swing Arm Lamp) “Furniture Winners,” The New York Times, March 6 (House Lamp) Sharon Lee Ryder, “Hot Concepts in Avant-Garde Design” New York Newsday, March 13 (House Lamp) “6th Annual Furniture Competition,” Progressive Architecture, May (House Lamp)
Published Projects and Reviews of Work — Web Sites 2020 2019
“OCCA@40 Invitational Exhibition,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, (Joe and Alf) http://www.occca.org/2020-06.html#gallery Savannah Smith, “3 New York Design Happenings to Check Out This Week, Architecture Exhibit at F.I.T.” New York Magazine https://www.thecut.com/article/new-york-design-news.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Design%20Hunting%20%20December%205%2C%202019&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20DH%20%281%20Year%29 (Picturing Space)
2018 2017
Eugenia Murialdo, “Uncovering Venice through Design – Design.VE,” Elle Decor https://www.elledecor.com/it/best-of/a21089004/venice-design-ve/ “Johannes Knoops Clarifies History of Italian Renaissance Printing Press,” FIT Newsroom,
2017 2017 2016 2016
Obrazów Motywu “A Mental Map of Venice,” Solonia City, https://soloniacity.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-mental-map-of-venice.html (Venice Re-Mapped) “New Views, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://portfolios.fitnyc.edu/gallery/48874545/Johannes-Knoops (Pantheon Bowl) Lee Michael Klien, “Jeff Koons and Louis Vuiton with Donatellanyone Versace Present: The Italian Shopping Mall Poem Remapped,” llmk1, https://llmk1.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/the-italian-shopping-mall-poem-remapped/ (Venice Re-Mapped) “Johannes Knoops’s Work Featured in Venetian Architecture Exhibition,” FIT Newsroom,
2016 2016 2015 2014 2012 2012 2011 2010 2010
“New Views, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://cyndamedia.com/nv_2016/# (Venetian Pairings) “Entry 0179,” WWI Memorial Competition, https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/stage-i-submissions-for-public-comment.html?start=165 (WWI Memorial) “New Views, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://www.fitnyc.edu/special/new-views-2016/# (WWI Memorial) “New Views, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://sites.fitnyc.edu/depts/newviews/index.html (128 Main Street) “Johannes M.P. Knoops 00811,” City Vision Rome Competition, http://www.cityvision-competition.com/johannes-m-p-knoops-00811/ (Kinetic Fantasies) “Fantastic, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition” FIT, http://sites.fitnyc.edu/depts/fantastic/ (Venice Re-Mapped) “Windscraper,” International Design Awards, http://idesignawards.com/winners/zoom2.php?eid=9-4473-11&cat=Conceptual (Windscraper) Tammi Thiele, “Escape to the Silent Cities,” http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2010/06/ (Conway Milgrim Memorial Bench) “Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia,” TripAdvisor,
2010
“Windscraper,” Total Housing 01, Architizer,
2010 2010 2009 2009
“Lightness, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://sites.fitnyc.edu/depts/exhibitions/lightness/index.html (Paralight) “People’s Choice,” Raise the Roof Kinetic Architecture Competition, http://contest.uni-systems.com/ (Kinetic Fantasies) “Metal Transfigured, Art and Design Faculty Exhibition,” FIT, http://www3.fitnyc.edu/metal/artists.html (Mercury’s Bench) Lisa Delgado, “Jurors Roll Out Red Carpet for 2009 AIANY Design Awards,” eOculus,
http://news.fitnyc.edu/2017/08/24/johannes-knoops-clarifies-true-history-of-italian-renaissance-printing-press/ (Aldus Pius Manutius)
http://news.fitnyc.edu/2016/10/17/johannes-knoopss-work-featured-in-venetian-architecture-exhibition/
(Venice Re-Mapped)
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60795-d144048-i33216720-Laurel_Hill_Cemetery-Philadelphia_Pennsylvania.html (Conway Milgrim Memorial Bench) www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/pictures/windscraper_facing-catching-and-channeling-the-wind/15422/120884/
(Windscraper)
http://www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/?p=2445 (Marriage Bureau)
2009
Britton Chambers, “New Marriage Bureau,” Architectural Scholar,
2009 2009 2009 2008 2007
“Marriage Bureau,” Archinet, http://www.archinect.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=7&pos=0 (Marriage Bureau) “Contract Magazine Interior Design Awards,” Absent Architecture, https://vimeo.com/101950654 (Marriage Bureau) “Interior Awards,” Contract Magazine, www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/esearch/e3i947d7121b176518a9de7203e936ad424 (Marriage Bureau) “Love Central, The Soaring Bridal Veil,” New York Magazine, nymag.com/arts/architecture/features/47818/index3.html (Marriage Bureau) “Precious Memories Floating on a Mystic Horizon,” Project New Orleans,
2006
“Accademia Museum-Bridge,” Arquitectum Competition, www.arquitectum.com/concursos/venecia_en.php
architecturalscholar.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-marriage-bureau-by-johannes-knoops.html (Marriage Bureau)
www.project-neworleans.org/publicbuilding/preciousmemories1.html (Tsunami Memorial) (Accademia Bridge)
2006 2005 2005 2005 2003
“Fendi Silent Auction,” American Academy in Rome, www.aarome.org/fendi_auction2.html (Janus Head) “Memorial Competition,” Flight 93 Memorial Project, www.flight93memorialproject.org (Flight 93 Memorial) Dominic Basulto, “Big Thinkers,” Corante, newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/03/the_origami_home_office.php (Bernard Study) “Highline Competition,” The Highline, www.thehighline.org/competition/entry.php?s=351 (Kenetic Fantasies) Luigi Centola, “Evoking with Kinetic Fantasies,” New Italian Blood, www.architettura.supereva.comarchitettura.supereva.com (Kinetic Fantasies)
Professional and Academic — Service 2019-
Bogliasco Foundation, Member of the Advisory Committee for Architecture, New York, NY
Professional and Academic — Affiliations Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome — member American Institute of Architects (AIA), New York Chapter — associate member #30367335 College Art Association (CAA) — member #162747 Society of Architectural Historians, Metro New York Chapter — member #24133 Interior Designers Educators Council (IDEC) — institutional professional member International Council of Museums (ICOM), US — member #127749 American Alliance of Museums — museum professional member #389882 Nationally Council for Interior Design (NCIDQ) — member #29883 Renaissance Society of America — member Printing History Association of America, New York Chapter — member Italian Art Society — member NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò — member
Collections 1994
Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA), Montréal, Québec, Prints and Drawings Collection, 1989 Diomede Competition CCA reference number: DR1994:0039:001-141
Lectures Given 2006 2003 2001 2001 1992
Congress of International Modern Architects (CIMA), New York, NY 91st Meeting of the Association Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Louisville, KY New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus, NY Catholic University Rome Program, Palazzo Pio, Rome Young Architects Forum (now the Architectural League Prize), Architectural League of New York, NY
Gallery Talks 2009
Design Awards Symposium, Center for Architecture, New York, NY
Special presentations 2017 Fall Personal Body Research, FIT new faculty orientation 2016 Fall Personal Research and Grant Opportunities, FIT, Department Lunch & Learn 2013 Fall NEH Opportunities for Professors, FIT, CET Workshop 2012 Fall Model Making as a Design Tool, FIT, Interior Design Club 2012 Fall Info Graphics & Edward Tufte in Thesis Research, FIT, for all students taking Thesis Research 2012 Fall NEH Summer Seminar, FIT, Interior Design Faculty Meeting 2012 Fall Curriculum Analysis and the 1.5 Course Credit Issue, Art & Design Chairmen’s’ Meeting 2004 Spg Career Day, PS 81, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Fall History: an argument against preservation, CCNY Architecture Lunchtime Lecture Series 2002 Fall History: an argument against preservation, NYIT Architecture Lunchtime Lecture Series
Guest Juror — to Industry 2010
Material Connexion, discussed and vetted selections for their collection
Guest Juror — of National Competitions 2007 1993 1993 1992
Unbuilt Architecture Design Competition, Boston Society of Architects William van Alen Architect Memorial Fellowship Competition, National Institute for Architectural Education John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship Competition, National Institute for Architectural Education William van Alen Architect Memorial Fellowship Competition, National Institute for Architectural Education
Guest Juror — of Student Reviews Cornell University (Ithaca & Rome), Catholic University (Rome), Washington University (Rome), Pratt Institute (Rome and NY), New York Institute of Technology, New York City Tech, Parsons School of Design, Waterloo University (Rome), Temple University (Rome), Bauhaus (Rome), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence & Rome), University of Pennsylvania (Rome), City College of New York, New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York School of Interior Design
Seminars Attended 2012 2011
"Is Drawing Dead?" a 3-day symposium, Yale School of Architecture, Robert Stern – Dean, New Haven, CT "Presenting Data and Information" Edward Tufte's 1-day seminar, New York, NY
Mentor to Award Wining Student Projects 2018 2015 2014 2013
Angelo Donghia Foundation, $30,000 Senior Student Scholarship Ahene Shin with Restaurant Project, 4th Semester Instructor ASID Education Legacy Fund, Alina Chmut – Junior category with Society Project, 4th Semester Instructor Decorators Club, Asa Bollvik – 3rd Place, with North Fork Retreat 5th Semester Instructor Virtual Context 2013 Honorable Mention, Gurroo, Innovative Minds International Architectural Competition, Sarah Hatch – 3rd Place, Thesis Instructor
Academic Highlights while at FIT 2012-18 Curriculum While on my department’s Curriculum Committee, I constructed a comparative analysis of our program’s credit distribution and compared it to our leading competitors. This identified an excessive amount of 1.5 credit courses suggesting the over segregation of like skill sets. Ultimately, this led to my department to combine similar courses. This critical analysis was shared with the School of Art and Design and then Dr. Brown. This work initiated the School of Art and Design to re-evaluate the curriculum in each of their departments. I continue to work with Takashi Kamiya to write the various courses in our lower division. 2013-18 Exhibitions In part thanks to my experience designing exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, I curated and designed the Faculty Exhibition when it moved to the Great Hall. Since then I have been chairing the Faculty Exhibition Committee. As such, I play a consulting role in both the renovation of our D lobby and the exhibition opportunities in our yet to be constructed new academic center. 2007Lawrence Israel Prize Since taking over our department’s lecture series, I transformed the it to an annual prize that has lead to national awareness of our program. Numerous industry news outlets report on the award. It has led to a string of high profile personalities addressing our students.
Courses Taught 2020 Fall 2020 Spring 2019 Fall
2018 Spring 2017 Fall 2017 Spring
2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2015 Fall
2015 Spring 2014 Fall 2014 Spring
2013 Fall 2013 Spring 2012 Fall 2012 Spring
2011 Fall
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design VIII, thesis studio (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design III, showroom, spiritual space and large office (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Representation I (required course) · Representation II (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Representation I (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design II, apartment, small office and table arrangement (required course) · Perspective (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Associate Professor · Design V, residential (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design V, residential (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design VIII, thesis project (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design VIII, thesis project (required course) · Thesis Research (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design VIII, thesis project (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) · Model Construction Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design VIII, thesis project (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course)
2011 Spring
2010 Fall 2010 Spring
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Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design VIII, thesis project (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) · Model Construction Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor · Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) · Design III, retail and office (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) · Model Construction Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) ·Design IV, small institution and restaurant (required course) ·Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) · Design III, retail and office (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) · Model Construction Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) · Design III, retail and office (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) · Design III, retail and office (required course) · Working Drawings for Interior Designers (required course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Assistant Professor (tenure track) · Design III, retail and office (required course) · Drafting for Interior Designers (required course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Urban Field Studies (pre-architecture course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Perspective and Presentation (a focused workshop) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Urban Field Studies (pre-architecture course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Representation and Analysis 2 (second year required course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Interior Design Core (continuing education) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Perspective and Presentation (a focused workshop) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Part-time Faculty · Representation and Analysis 1 (second year required course) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Object Fixation (level 400 seminar) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Senior Degree Project (thesis) City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio · Portfolio Review Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Senior Degree Project Research (thesis) City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio · Portfolio Review New York Institute of Technology, Adjunct · First Year Fundamentals Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Senior Degree Project (thesis) City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio · Portfolio Review Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Senior Degree Project Research (thesis) – 3 credits · Media & Communications Skills – 3 credits City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio – 4 credits · Survey in Western Architecture 1 Seminar – 1 credit
2002 Summer Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · Advanced Design Studio – 5 credits 2002 Spring Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · First Year Design Studio – 5 credits · Media & Communications Skills – 3 credits City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio – 4 credits · Portfolio Review – 1 credit · Architectural Drawing and Visualization – 3 credits 2001 Fall Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor · First Year Design Studio – 5 credits · Media & Communications Skills – 3 credits City College of New York, City University of New York, Adjunct · Second Year Design Studio – 4 credits · Survey in Western Architecture 1 Seminar – 1 credit New York Institute of Technology, Adjunct · Drawing 2001 Spring Pratt Institute Rome, Italy Program, Visiting Assistant Professor · Fourth Year Design Studio – 5 credits · Drawing – 3 credits · Urban Field Studies – 2 credits 1995 Spring Yale College, New Haven, CT, teaching assistant to various professors · Senior Design Studio, individual senior projects 1994 Fall Yale University, New Haven, CT, teaching assistant to Professor Kent Bloomer · Ornament Theory and Design, graduate elective
Academic Committees and Course Coordination at FIT 2020-21
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Department: · Special Projects Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · NASAD Committee – Chairman · Faculty Search Committee · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Studio IV · Course Coordinator for Representation II Institution: · Sabbaticals and Release Time Committee Department: · Special Projects Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · NASAD Committee – Chairman · Faculty Search Committee · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Studio IV · Course Coordinator for Representation II Institution: · Sabbaticals and Release Time Committee Department: · Lectures Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Representation I and II · Course Coordinator for Drafting · Course Coordinator for Studio IV Institution: · Library Committee · Grants Committee School of Art and Design: · Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee Chairman Department: · Lectures Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Representation I and II · Course Coordinator for Drafting · Course Coordinator for Studio IV School of Art and Design: · Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee Chairman · D Lobby Review Committee Institution: · Grants Committee
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Department: · Curriculum Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Scholarship Committee · Graduating Student Exhibition · Course Coordinator for Drafting · Course Coordinator for Studio IV School of Art and Design: · Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee Chairman Department: · Special Events Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · College Relations Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Graphic Identity Committee · Technology Committee · Course Coordinator for Drafting · Course Coordinator for Studio IV School of Art and Design: · Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee Chairman Department: · Special Events Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · College Relations Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Graphic Identity Committee · Technology Committee · Team for Thesis Exhibition, D-Lobby · Course Coordinator for Thesis Studio · Course Coordinator for Drafting · Course Coordinator for Studio IV School of Art and Design: · Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Committee, Curator of “New Views” Department: · Special Events Committee (inc. Larry Israel Prize) – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · College Relations Committee · Faculty Search Committee · Graphic Identity Committee · Technology Committee · Team for “Future Studio” a speculative classroom for the Department of Interior Design · Team for Thesis Exhibition, FIT Museum · Course Coordinator for Thesis Studio · Course Coordinator for Drafting Department: · Larry Israel Prize Committee – Chairman · Curriculum Committee · Faculty Search · Co-coordinator for FIT’s “Barbie’s Dream House” · Team for “Future Studio” a speculative classroom for the Department of Accessories · Team for Thesis Exhibition, FIT Museum · Course Coordinator for Drafting Department: · Larry Israel Prize Committee – Chairman · Exhibitions Committee – Chairman · Scholarship Committee · NASAD Committee · Course Coordinator for Drafting Department: · Larry Israel Prize Committee – Chairman · Exhibitions Committee – Chairman · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Drafting Department: · Larry Israel Prize Committee – Chairman · Academic Standards Committee · 50th Anniversary Steelcase Installation Committee · 50th Anniversary D Lobby Installation Committee · Exhibitions Committee · Scholarship Committee · Course Coordinator for Drafting Department: · Larry Israel Prize Committee – Chairman · Academic Standards Committee · Exhibitions Committee · Course Coordinator for Drafting
Community Service – as an Adult Leader 2016201620162018 2017
Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camps Alumni Association, Chairman, GNYC, BSA, New York, NY Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camps Museum Board, Member, Exhibitions Committee, GNYC, BSA, New York, NY Greater New York Councils, BSA, Camping Committee, GNYC, BSA, New York, NY Merit Badge University at Harvard University, instructor for Architecture merit badge, Spirit of Adventure Council, Boston, NY Ten Mile River Historical Trail Award Committee, designed the new Trail Medal and Trail Patch, Narrowsburg, NY
Community Service – Honor and Distinctions 2017
Boy Scouts of America Alumni Award, Council Alumnus of the Year, Greater New York Councils #640, New York, NY
Design Awards as a Senior Designer with KPF Architects 2004 2003 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001 2001 2001 2001
MIPIM Awards, Finalist, Tourism Resorts Category, for Grand Hyatt Tokyo AIA National Honor Award for Outstanding Architecture, for Baruch College AIA National Honor Award, SCUP/AIA for Excellence in Planning, for Baruch College Built Projects Design Award, AIA Connecticut Chapter, for Mohegan Sun MIPIM Awards, Finalist, Tourism Resorts Category, for Mohegan Sun BAC Craft Award, Bricklayers/ Masonry Union, for Mohegan Sun Award of Merit, New York Construction News, for Baruch College Honor Award, National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association, for Mohegan Sun Golden Trowel Award, International Masonry Institute New England Region, for Mohegan Sun Project of the Year Award, New York Construction News, Mixed-Use Project Category, for Mohegan Sun
Published Projects and Reviews as Senior Designer with KPF Architects Baruch College, New York: 2006 Building the Baruch Academic Complex, the City University of New York: William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox, by Kenneth Frampton, Sarah Palmer Editor 2005 KPF: Selected Works America Europe Asia, Millennium Series, Images Publishing Group 2003 Architectural Record, “American Institute of Architects Winners and Jurors 2003.” May: 170. 2003 Architectural Record, Lynn, Greg. “Greg Lynn outlines a series of trends seen in various awards.” May: 152. 2003 Architectural Record, “Honor Awards: Architecture.” May: 133. 2003 Architectural Record, “New Academic Complex, Baruch College, CUNY.” May: 133. 2003 Architectural Record, Taylor, Mark. “Mark Taylor argues that creativity can be found at the edge of chaos.” May: 132. 2003 Architectural Record, “AIA Honor Award winners announced.” February: 52. 2003 Kohn Pedersen Fox, American Architects Series, Aurora Cuito editor, Rockport publisher 2003 Kohn Pedersen Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1993-2002, by Ian Luna, Rizzoli pub. 2002 Architectural Record, Ivy, Robert. “Another Pair of Eyes.” December: 17. 2002 Architecture, Giovannini, Joseph. “The Vertical Campus.” October: 62-7. 2002 Kohn Pedersen Fox Architecture and Urbanism 1993-2002, Luna, Ian and Powell, Kenneth. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2001 New York Magazine, Giovannini, Joseph. “Open Admissions.” December 17. 2000 Oculus (62:10), Merkel, Jayne. “Campus by Design.” June: 22. 1999 KPF: The First 22 Years, Featuring William Pedersen’s Selected Building Design 1976-1998, Giacoppo, Pierantonio. Milan: l’Arca Edizioni. 1997 Architecture, Maynard, Michael. “Campus Buildings.” November: 130-1. 1997 KPF Selected and Current Works, Master Architect Series II Dobney, Steven. Images Publishing Group Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills & Grand Hyatt, Tokyo: 2005 KPF: Selected Works America Europe Asia, Millennium Series, Images Publishing Group 2004 CA: Contemporary Architecture, “Hotels in Diversity.” CA: June 2003 Kohn Pedersen Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1993-2002, by Ian Luna, Rizzoli pub. 2003 The New York Times, Brooke, James. “Evolving Tokyo: A ‘City’ Within the City.” October 28 2003 The Economist, “Onwards and Upwards.” February 8 2003 Time International, Frederick, Jim. “TomorrowLand: Tycoon Minoru Mori wants to make Tokyo a more livable city.” August 11 2002 Architecture, Betsky, Aaron. “Babylon Revisited.” December 2000 Architectural Record, “Construction begins on Japan’s largest private development.” August 2000 Urban Land, Grogan, Bradley C. “Cultural Heart.” November 2000 Designing with Models, Mills, Criss. New York: Wiley 2000 Architectural Record, “The Top of Tokyo.” April 1996 Architecture + Urbanism, Usuda, Tetsuo, Yutaka Taikura, et al. “Kohn Pedersen Fox: Three High Rise Building Projects.” June 2003 Time International, Frederick, Jim. “TomorrowLand: Tycoon Minoru Mori wants to make Tokyo a more livable city.” August 11 Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Conecticut: 2004 CA: Contemporary Architecture, “Hotels in Diversity.” June 2002 The New York Times, Bernstein, Fred A. “Where the Walls Whisper of a Tribe’s Folklore and Traditions.” November 17 2001 The New York Times, Charles, Eleanor. “A Glittering Addition at the Mohegan Sun Casino.” October 7 2000 Architectural Record, Larson, Soren. “Mohegan Sun Throws the Dice on Huge New Gambling Lure.” April 2000 Architectural Record, “Casino Craze.” March