Aftertaste 2007 The Glass Corner Symposium
March 30, 2007 to March 31, 2007
One century ago Frank Alvah Parsons founded the first Interior Design program in the United States at Parsons School for Design in New York. For over ten decades, and in response to myriad cultural and professional forces, the study of the interior has developed into a hybrid of environmental psychology, fashion design, product design, architecture, material science, and cultivated taste. Now, at a time of unusually rapid technological and cultural evolution, it is time for a critical assessment of the field.
Interior Design is a hybrid of environmental psychology, fashion design, product design, architecture, material science and cultivated taste. Now, at a time of rapid technological and cultural evolution, it is time for a critical assessment of the field.
Schedule
March 30, 2007, Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Petra Blaisse
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Constance Adams
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Donald Albrecht
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Andrew Blauvelt
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Beatriz Colomina
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Jamie Drake
Location: The Glass Corner
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
+ Kitty Hawks
March 31, 2007, Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ Kent Kleinman
Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ David Ling
Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ Julieanna Preston
Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ Susan Szenasy
Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ Lois Weinthal
Location: The Glass Corner
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
+ Susan Yelavich
Participants
Petra Blaisse
Petra Blaisse is an interior designer whose work is known for challenging conventional distinctions of space by fluidly connecting inside and outside environments and blurring the relationship between interior, architecture and landscape. In 1991, Blaisse founded the Amsterdam-based design office Inside Outside . She is internationally acclaimed for her designs of theatre curtains, acoustic walls and cast floors, including the embossed liquid-gold drapes for the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague, the curtain-as-walls for the Mick Jagger Centre near London, and the space-defining pleated walls for the VIP department in New York's Prada Store. Blaisse has worked with Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA on the new glass pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art; with Rem Koolhaas/OMA on the Seattle Main Public Library, the Casa de Musica in Portugal, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, and the ITT in Chicago, with Bruce Mau on the Downsview Park in Toronto; and with Michael Maltzan on the courtyard for the UCLA Hammer Museum.
Constance Adams
Constance Adams is an architect who works in the space program for clients such as Lockheed Martin Space Operations and NASA. She studied sociology at Harvard University and completed her professional studies in architecture at Yale University. After a two-year apprenticeship with Kenzo Tange Associates in Tokyo, followed by four years working in Berlin on commercial and master planning projects, she was employed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Among other projects, Adams was involved in developing the design of an inflatable module for the International Space Station. The module, known as TransHab ("Transit Habitat"), was designed to provide living quarters for astronauts aboard the space station, including a common room, gymnasium, shower, and other amenities.
Donald Albrecht
Donald Albrecht, an independent curator and adjunct curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York, has organized exhibitions for the Cooper-Hewitt, the National Building Museum, the Getty Center, the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum. Most recently he curated the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Realizing American Utopia for Yale University and the Museum of Finnish Architecture, and The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design for the National Building Museum. His publications include Glass + Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment , 1930-1960 , Russell Wright: Creating American Lifestyle , and Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies . He was a 2003 Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Andrew Blauvelt
Andrew Blauvelt is the Design Director and Curator for the Walker Art Center. Blauvelt was recently selected as one of the "100 most significant" graphic designers in Area , a curated international survey of contemporary graphic designers. Under his leadership at the Walker Art Center, the design studio was nominated for the prestigious Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York. Blauvelt has organized the exhibitions Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses , Ideas for Modern Living , and Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life . Prior to the Walker, he was Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the School of Design, North Carolina State University, where he helped develop its top-ranked graduate program and later served as department head. He also served as interim chair of the design department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Beatriz Colomina
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media ; Sexuality and Space ; Architectureproduction ; Double Exposure: Architecture through Art; and Domesticity at War . She has been on the editorial board of Assemblage , Daidalos , and Grey Room, and has received a Graham Foundation grant for her current research project "X-Ray Architecture: Illness as Metaphor." Since 1988, Colomina has taught at Princeton University's School of Architecture, where she is Director of Doctoral Studies and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity.
Jamie Drake
Jamie Drake is the founder of Drake Design Associates, a New York-based design firm that is responsible for some of the country's most dynamic, distinctive and livable interiors. He has designed residences for clients including Madonna and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and oversaw the restoration and renovation of Gracie Mansion. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest , Elle Décor , House Beautiful , The New York Times , House & Garden , and he was cited by Vanity Fair as "a standout among the rising stars of interior designers." He was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2003.
Kitty Hawks
Kitty Hawks is principal of the New York interior design firm Kitty Hawks Incorporated. Her clients include Tom Brokow, Agnes Gund, Michael Ovitz, and Diane Sawyer, and her work has been published in House and Garden , Interior Design , House Beautiful , Architectural Digest and she was recently featured in Metropolis. She was the creative director for Perry Ellis, and is a Board member of the Design Trust for Public Space and the Municipal Art Society of New York. She has worked on issues ranging from sustainability to the redesign of the taxi cab and the redevelopment of New York’s West Side rail yards. In recognition of her practice, Hawks was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2005.
Kent Kleinman
Kent Kleinman is the Gale and Ira Drukier dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University. Before joining AAP, Kleinman was dean of the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design. He received his professional degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly focus is 20th-century European Modernism, and his publications include Villa Müller: A Work of Adolf Loos, Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision, The Krefeld Villas: Mies’s Haus Lange and Esters, as well as articles and reviews in national and international publications, including Bauwelt, Progressive Architecture, A+U, Bauart, Archis, and the Architect’s Journal. He recently published a translation of Jan Turnovsky’s Poetics of a Wall Projection (2009). Kleinman has taught at architecture schools internationally, including the Academy of Fine Arts, in Vienna; the Hochschule der Künste, in Berlin; the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen; and the ETH, in Zurich. He was a faculty member at the University at Michigan from 1989 to 1999, and professor and chair of architecture at the State University of New York, Buffalo, from 1999 to 2005. He was awarded the senior Public Goods fellowship (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) at the University of Michigan in 2002, and was a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2005. He has received four Graham Foundation Grants, the national Bruner Prize; two Architect’s Journal 10 Best Books awards; first alternate award for the Burnham Prize; a New York Council for the Arts grant; and a 2001 Progressive Architecture Design Award (with Eric Sutherland). Kleinman is a registered architect in California.
David Ling
David Ling is principal and founder of the New York-based firm David Ling Architects, an international practice in the U.S., Europe and Asia . Prior to opening his own practice in 1992, Ling worked for Emilio Ambasz & Associates, Richard Meier and Partners, and I.M. Pei and Partners. Ling's work has received numerous international awards such as theInteriors Magazine's Annual Awards for Best Retail Design (2001) and Best Office Design (1995), London's Design Partnership Award for Best Retail Design (2000), ICFF's Best Exhibition Design (2001), and London's Grosvenor House Award for Best Exhibition Design (1991). His work has been widely published including The New York Times , Wallpaper ,Interior Design , Interiors , House and Garden , Elle Décor , Metropolitan Home , Dwell , VM+SD, Interni , Architektur und Wohnen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Vogue ,Elle , Harper's Bazaar , and Burlington Magazine.
Julieanna Preston
Julieanna Preston is a Senior Lecturer of Interior Design at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, and co-editor of Intimus : Interior Design Theory Reader , arguably the only anthology of interior design theory. Preston's teaching and research interests lie in developing interior design as both a spatial art and an intellectual endeavor, and her work typically engages craft as a mode of thinking through theoretical issues and positions, often embedding the learning process in design proposals.
Susan Szenasy
Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture and design. Since 1986, she has led the magazine through decades of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic, and international recognition. She is internationally recognized as an authority on sustainability and design. She’s been honored with two IIDA Presidential Commendations and the 2008 recipient of the ASID Patron’s Prize and Presidential Commendation as well as the SARA/NY medallion of honor. In 2011, she won the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award and was named a Senior Fellow by the Design Futures Council. Susan holds an MA in Modern European History from Rutgers University and honorary doctorates from Kendall College of Art and Design, the Art Center College of Design, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives in New York’s East Village in a small loft designed by Harry Allen, where she moved after 9/11 to reduce her ecological footprint.
Lois Weinthal
Lois Weinthal is Chair of the School of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Her research and practice investigates the relationship between architecture, interiors, clothing and objects, resulting in works that take on an experimental nature. Her teaching explores these topics where theoretical discussions in seminars are put into practice in the design studio. She is the editor of Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory, and co-editor of After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design with Kent Kleinman and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, both published by Princeton Architectural Press, and most recently, co-editor with Graeme Brooker on the Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design published by Berg Publishers. She has received grants from the Graham Foundation, Fulbright, and DAAD and has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. Previously she was Director of the Interior Design Program at Parsons School of Design and Graduate Advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program at The University of Texas at Austin. She studied architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Susan Yelavich
An Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, Susan Yelavich has expertise in contemporary architecture and design. Her research focuses on design and culture, including a recent exploration of the relationship between architecture and textiles. | The author of Contemporary World Interiors, Pentagram Profile, co-author of Inside Design Now and author of Design for Life and The Edge of the Millennium, Ms. Yelavich has also contributed essays to numerous books, including Animal Logic and Ted Muehling: A Portrait by Don Freeman. | She lectures and writes frequently about design, and is a contributing editor of Patek Philippe International Magazine. | Ms. Yelavich is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. | A graduate of Brown University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Ms. Yelavich is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Student Designed Reception
The Glass Corner
