Diana Agrest
Encyclopedia
Diana Agrest is an Argentinian/American architect.
She co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York
, and is director of the Diana Agrest Architect Studio.
She has participated in the design and building of numerous projects in Europe
, United States
, Asia
and Latin America
, spanning such types as urban projects, administrative buildings, residential structures, fully designed individual homes.
She has won many prizes, including the New York State Prize of Excellence, for the Melrose Community Center. She is the Professor of Architecture at Cooper Union
, after having taught at Princeton University
, Columbia University
, Yale University
and the University of Paris
in France.
She co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and is director of the Diana Agrest Architect Studio.
She has participated in the design and building of numerous projects in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, spanning such types as urban projects, administrative buildings, residential structures, fully designed individual homes.
She has won many prizes, including the New York State Prize of Excellence, for the Melrose Community Center. She is the Professor of Architecture at Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
, after having taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
in France.
Publications
- Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice (1991)
- Agrest and Gandelsonas, Works (1995)
- The Sex of Architecture (1996)
- A Romance with the City: The Work of Irwin S. Chanin (1982)