Keller Easterling

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Keller Easterling
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Easterling on The Laura Flanders Show in 2015
EducationBachelor of Science, Princeton University, 1981, Masters of Architecture, Princeton University, 1984
Alma materPrinceton University
OccupationArchitect - Professor
Website http://kellereasterling.com/

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and professor. She is Enid Storm Dwyer Professor and Director of the MED Program at Yale University.

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Biography

She earned both her B.A. and M.Arch from Princeton University School of Architecture and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.[ citation needed ] [1] She is Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture and director of the MED program at Yale University. [2] Easterling is a contemporary writer working on the issues of urbanism, architecture, and organization in relation to globalization.

Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design, the 2019 recipient of the Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking, and the 2018 recipient of the Schelling Architecture Foundation Theory Award. [3] [4] [5]

Seeking "complications rather than solutions", Easterling's book Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (2021) "rethinks ways of addressing the planet's most intractable problems." [6] [7] Easterling's Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (2014) analyzes infrastructure as the determinant of a set of hidden rules that "structure the spaces all around us." [8] Easterling's We Will Be Making Active Form talks about the relationship between human scripts and technology and the idea of human scripts being activities transformed technology deliver "new capacities to enhance the activities of humans". [9] Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (2005), researches familiar spatial products that have landed in precarious political situations around the world. A previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. Easterling is also the author (with archivist, writer, and filmmaker Rick Prelinger) of Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning. She has completed two research installations on the Web that explore alternative methods and documents for adjusting urban space: "Wildcards: A Game of Orgman" and "Highline: Plotting NYC." Her work has been published in journals such as Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine , Perspecta , Metalocus, and ANY.[ citation needed ] She has lectured in the United States as well as internationally and her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Queens Museum of Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. [10] [ better source needed ]

In spring 2008 she was one of 100 designers chosen by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to receive a commission for a villa project organized by the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. [11]

She presented the academic paper "Subtraction" in the workshop 'Mine the city – With logistics to circular metabolisms' at the 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City. [12]

"Take-Away" by Easterling talks about the influence of money on houses and her argument that houses are not money. One of the arguments in the article are "Mortgages fix the house as a marker for debt and its auxiliary economic instruments are limited". [13] When it comes to currencies and other money-related terms, Easterling mentions that currencies tend to be bought and sold very quickly as well as make boundary against loss. However, houses are expected to be both "volatile and stable". [13]

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  8. Verso. www.versobooks.com. Verso Books. August 2016. ISBN   9781784783648.
  9. Easterling, Keller (2012). "We Will Be Making Active Form". Architectural Design. 82 (5): 58–63. doi:10.1002/ad.1461.
  10. "Keller Easterling — Contact". kellereasterling.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  11. Bernstein, Fred (May 1, 2008). "In Inner Mongolia, Pushing Architecture's Outer Limits". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  12. "Keller Easterling – Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
  13. 1 2 3 Easterling, Keller (2012). "Take-Away". Perspecta. 45: 153–160.
  14. Seaside : making a town in America. David Mohney, Keller Easterling. [New York, N.Y.] 1991. ISBN   1-878271-44-X. OCLC   23869256.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. "Subtraction: MIT Press". 28 October 2020.
  16. Easterling, Keller (2010). "Some True Stories". Perspecta. 42: 75–77.
  17. Easterling, Keller (2007). "Extrastatecraft". Perspecta. 39: 4–16.