Aaron Betsky (born 1958 in Missoula, Montana) is an American critic of art, architecture, and design. He was the director of Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design until early 2022.
Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale University, he is the author of over a dozen books, including Architecture Matters, Making It Modern, Landscrapers: Building With the Land, Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, Queer Space, Revelatory Landscapes, and Architecture Must Burn. Internationally known as a lecturer, curator, reviewer, and commentator, he writes the blog "Beyond Buildings" for Architect Magazine. Director of the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale,[1] he has also been president and Dean of the School of Architecture at Taliesin (originally the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture), director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2001-2006) the Cincinnati Art Museum (2006-2014), and was founding Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995-2001). As an unlicensed architect, he worked for Frank O. Gehry & Associates and Hodgetts + Fung. In 2003, he co-curated "Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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AaronBetsky (born 1958 in Missoula, Montana) is an American critic of art, architecture, and design. He was the director of Virginia Tech's School of...
2005, when The Interpreter was filmed there. According to architect AaronBetsky, the United Nations headquarters has often been used to stand for "freedom...
Drive shopping center sold". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 April 2014. AaronBetsky, Two Rodeo Drive--A Collage of What Beverly Hills Is All About, Latimes...
Middle Ages. Several leading academics in architecture history, including AaronBetsky, Vaughan Hart and William Whyte reviewed the book. Some of its proposals...
that Ernst Neufert used in his 1936 reference book Architects' Data. AaronBetsky described the "deeply ironic beauty" of the book, which he also calls...
Gamble Rogers. James Gamble Rogers and the Architecture of Pragmatism, AaronBetsky, MIT, 1994. ISBN 978-0262023818 The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers...
Vista in Puerto Rico. Archived 12 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine AaronBetsky. "Beyond Buildings," Architect: The Magazine of the American Institute...
anniversary. In an essay written during the anniversary year, architect AaronBetsky wrote that City Hall "is one of the last concrete examples of government...
November 17, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2013. Israel, p. 128; Iovine, p. 11. AaronBetsky (January 9, 2013). "Beyond Buildings: Michael Graves's San Juan Capistrano...
Tut's Tomb in 1922 had a building caused such a stir." The architect AaronBetsky wrote in 2005: "The Secretariat becomes both an abstraction of the office...
Grenoble, France | 2000 AaronBetsky and Adam Eeuwens, False Flat: Why Dutch Design Is so Good, (New York: Phaidon, 2004) AaronBetsky, ‘Plain weirdness: The...
become obsessed by the almost childlike simplicity of 432 Park Ave". AaronBetsky of Architect magazine called 432 Park "a gridded tube abstracting and...
Art Museum Directors Alfred T. Goshorn Joseph Henry Gest Timothy Rub AaronBetsky Curators Grace Morley Gustave Von Groschwitz Lewis Henry Meakin Benefactors...
prevent human migration, suicide, terrorism, and illicit drug injection. AaronBetsky described the "deeply ironic beauty" of the book, which he also calls...
Wexler's work at Venice Architecture Biennale by American art critic AaronBetsky (2021) Celebrating the power of transformation at Venice Architecture...
danger of being bulldozed to make way for additional beach parking.") AaronBetsky (1993-07-01). "Architecture: Malibu Mansion Still Embodies California...
another book of EAA was released by ORO Editions with an introduction by AaronBetsky. The book is an expose of an architect's inner dialogues during the design...
Sackett, p. 23. Exotic Vernacular: Hacienda Buena Vista in Puerto Rico. AaronBetsky. "Beyond Buildings." Architect: The Magazine of the American Institute...
Early Beverly Hills. Arcadia Publishing. p. 99. ISBN 9780738530680. Betsky, Aaron (December 24, 1992). "The 'Witches' Cottage': A Realized Fairy-Tale...
Christopher Alexander Stan Allen Pier Vittorio Aureli Michael Benedikt AaronBetsky Jennifer Bloomer Andrea Branzi Lori Brown Markus Breitschmid Tilmann...
Architecture Exhibition: Out There: Architecture Beyond Building. Directed by AaronBetsky. 14 September – 23 November 2008. National pavilions, contributions and...
contains both current and former faculty: Ann Bergren Walead Beshty AaronBetsky Mike Davis Benjamin H. Bratton Manuel DeLanda Neil Denari Hernan Diaz...
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