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About
American design historian and curator known for teaching, writing and giving public lectures about the history of architecture and design. He has worked for The Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Guggenheim and Genspace, which was the first community biotech lab in the United States. He authored Bio Design: Nature + Science + Creativity, and Bioart: Altered Realities. He was the lead organizer of the Museum of 21st Century Design, based in Amsterdam.
Before Fame
He is a graduate of the MFA program in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Trivia
His exhibitions include Biodesign at the Rhode Island School of Design, Matter of Life at the MU Gallery in Eindhoven, and Biodesign at the New Institute in Rotterdam. He also led the curatorial teams for the exhibitions: Humans Need Not Apply, and Unreal at the Science Galleries in Dublin and Rotterdam. His writing has appeared in Metropolis magazine, The Architect's Newspaper and New York Magazine.
Family Life
He is from the United States.
Associated With
He and Alexandra Lange are both popular non-fiction authors who write about architecture.
