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Hybrid Factory Hybrid City
A new book organized and edited by historian, curator, writer, and educator Nina Rappaport is an outgrowth of her ongoing Vertical Urban Factory think tank and practicum. Comprised of a collection of essays by an international group of architects and urbanists, it addresses issues related to bringing manufacturing back to cities in ways that are compatible with residential living. I served as line editor, copy editor, and proofreader.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
I support fundraising for a 60-year-old museum with its pulse on the latest developments in contemporary art and a focus on supporting living artists. I've written proposals for a survey of feminist art that brings a critical movement into the 21st century, education programs that provide a cultural lifeline for schools and communities in Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley, and an exhibition series that arose from COVID-19.
The Museum of Motherhood
The Museum of Motherhood originated in an international music festival that came to encompass visual arts programming, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and pioneering social justice programs in Harlem, the Bronx, and Tampa. I supported a funding opportunity that will allow the museum, which relocated from New York City to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2016, to expand its program and footprint.
The State of the Urban Forest in New York City
Sarah Gephart of MGMT design, a genius at representing complex information in graphic form, brought me into this scientific study. My role as a proofreader for this first-of-its-kind initiative by The Nature Conservancy allowed me to ponder the physical, environmental, social, legal, and ethical issues surrounding the 7 million trees that inhabit New York City’s five boroughs. Published online in 2021.
Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas
Co-edited by Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, Eyes That Saw was my second project centered around Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s legendary Learning from Las Vegas design and research studio at the Yale School of Architecture. Eyes That Saw connected me to the impact of Venturi and Brown’s seminal study on visual art, architecture, film, and urban design. I served as line editor, fact-checker, and proofreader.
Vertical Urban Factory
This seminal book, now in its second printing, represents the culmination of author Nina Rappaport’s ongoing Vertical Urban Factory initiative, which has thus far yielded an international touring exhibition, two books, and workshops. I consulted on administrative issues and edited didactic texts and informational graphics for the 2011 exhibition, and served as line editor, copy editor, and proofreader for both the initial hardcover and later paperback editions (2015/2020).
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig
Paris-based designer and typographer Philippe Apeloig and I met at the Cooper Union School of Art, where he was associate professor of graphic design and I managed the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. We worked closely for three years on the Study Center’s program of exhibitions, publications, and lectures by the world’s premier graphic designers. In 2012, Apeloig invited me to support him, editor Tino Grass, and his design team on the English translation of the project descriptions for his retrospective publication—texts that also served as wall labels for the accompanying exhibition at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs (2013). I served as writer, copy editor, and fact-checker.
LA BORNE 1940–1980: A postwar movement of ceramic expression in France
I was invited to join this book project, co-conceived by Hughes Magen and April Magen, about a traditional potting village in central France that supported a postwar revolution in modern ceramic art through Philippe Apeloig, who designed the eponymous book accompanying Magen H Gallery’s 2013 exhibition. Editing sessions took place amid the gallery's brilliantly and passionately curated displays of 20th-century sculpture, furniture, decorative objects, architectural elements, ceramics, and fine art.
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture
I have supported the production of numerous Yale School of Architecture publications. A favorite was architectural historian and theorist Karla Britton’s 2010 exploration of how sacred buildings across continents—churches, mosques, synagogues, and memorials designed by architects ranging from Tadao Ando to Zaha Hadid to Peter Eisenman to Moshe Safdie seen from the perspective of multiple faiths, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Baha'i a—are seen in the context of contemporary architecture and religious practice. I was assistant editor.