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The Building Books workshop promotes the exploration of architectural and artistic practices related to the book as an object. This workshop takes the following positions: The method is the book. The site is the book. The program is the book. The construct is the book. Architects and artists have embraced this form, making it an integral part of process and practice. The role it has played as the most condensed means of conveying information is undergoing transformation. But to the architect and the artists, the book, as conveyor, remains sacred.
In this workshop, participants will consider the fundamentals and theory of book design and consider the book as an object derived from a process of content generation, curation, design and production. Then, in an immersive effort, participants will be making books, but also will be thinking about and analyzing books via the act of book-making.
We will be making two books. Hand-made and Adobe InDesign options will be pursued. Once these have been mastered, the techniques can be combined to make books of an infinite variety of sections and materials.
This workshop will be held in the CAPLA West Building Sundt Gallery.
About the Instructors
Ashley Simone (M.ARCH) is a writer, editor, curator and educator based in New York, New York. She is the founding director of EDITRIX:, an editorial and curatorial consultancy focusing on the intersection of architecture, art, and culture
Her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals published by Actar, BOMB Magazine, Lars Müller Publishers, Oro Editions, and Thames and Hudson. Among other volumes on architecture and urbanism, she is the editor of A Genealogy of Modern Architecture (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2015) and The Other Modern Movement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021) by Kenneth Frampton, Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design by Allan Wexler (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2017), Two Journeys by Michael Webb (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2018), Frank Gehry Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, 1954-1978 by Jean-Louis Cohen (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 2020), Occupation: Boundary, art, architecture, and culture at the water, by Cathy Simon with Carrie Eastman (Oro Editions, 2021), and she is a co-editor of In Search of African American Space (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2020).
Before founding EDITRIX:, she worked for Bernard Tschumi Architects and managed construction projects with Ryan Associates. The Drawing Center in Soho, designed by WXY Architecture and Urban Design, is the last build project she helped to realize. Others include high-end residences in Manhattan and the BURST House *008, designed by Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
She is an associate professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a lecturer for CAPLA at the University of Arizona. Her teaching focuses on writing, representation, and design in architecture. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in economics from the College of William and Mary.
Carrie Eastman (MLA) is a writer and editor, designer, and educator, who is Senior Associate Editor EDITRIX:, an editorial and curatorial consultancy focusing on the intersection of architecture, art, and culture.
She is the co-author of the recent book Occupation: Boundary; Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water (ORO Editions, 2022), which explores the social, political, and cultural factors of the rise, fall, and reclamation of the urban waterfront. She is an editor of the forthcoming Grow the Future: Visions of Biodesign, a book that features projects and writings by artists, designers, and scientists in this emerging field, and an editor of In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020), a volume of essays that reconsiders African American spatial typologies.
She practices landscape architecture independently after having spent fifteen years working on large-scale public projects in and around New York City. She is an assistant professor at Pratt Institute and an adjunct instructor for CAPLA at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
She has a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree in the history of art and architecture from Brown University.