MEREDITH TENHOOR
architecture, (sub)urbanism, media, food, biopolitcs
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall, a book I wrote and edited with Rosten Woo, has been published by Princeton Architectural Press/Inventory Books and will be out in the spring of 2010
- "The Architect’s Farm", a history of architecture and agriculture, will appear in Above the Pavement — the Farm! Architecture & Agriculture at PF1 edited by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, also in the spring of 2010
- Some of my research on restaurants and zoning appears in "Community" in Open City: Designing Coexistence, the 4th International Architecture Biennale – Rotterdam, curated by Interboro Partners
- Brooklyn Exchanges: Design, Development and the Future of Brooklyn, an exhibit produced in collaboration with David Frisco and our students at Pratt Institute, was exhibited at the Metropolitan Exchange and at the Gallery at CUNY-Kingsborough
- I am completing my dissertation, "Architecture, Food and Biopolitics from Les Halles to Rungis" at the School of Architecture, Princeton University
- I teach seminars in history and theory in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute
- I organize occasional lectures, dinners, a library, and a community supported program at the Metropolitan Exchange in Downtown Brooklyn
PUBLICATIONS
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- Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall, Princeton Architectural Press/Inventory Books, 2010
- "The Architect’s Farm", a chapter in Above the Pavement — the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at PF1, Princeton Architectural Press/Inventory Books, 2010
- "Architecture and Biopolitics at Les Halles", an article in French Politics, Culture and Society, Summer 2007
- "Automat Love", an article in PIN-UP #2, 2007
- "On Oppositions", an article in PIDGIN #3, 2007
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EVENTS
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- Moderator, "Administration" panel at Infrastructure's Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-bureaucratic Systems, 2009
- "Exhibiting Urban Change in Downtown Brooklyn", paper presented with David Frisco at Dreamland Pavilion, Brooklyn and Development, CUNY-Kingsborough, 2009
- "Memorializing Cultures of Commerce in Postwar Paris", invited lecture at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University, 2009
- "Building a Postfordist Market? Architecture, Food, and Information in the Transfer from Les Halles to Rungis", paper presented at In Search of the Postfordist City, Center for Metropolitan Studies, 2008
- "The Post-Fordist Market: Architecture between Les Halles and Rungis", paper presented at Work In Post-Fordist France, Nottingham University, 2008
- "Vacuum Suction Conveyance, Part 1", lecture/performance at Common Room, 2008
- Organizer, Brooklyn Exchanges: Design, Development and the Future of Brooklyn, Events at the Metropolitan Exchange, 2008-09
- Paris in April: Architectural Transformations, invited lecture, Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, 2008
- "The Modern Market", paper, at the Aggregate Working Conference, Oberlin College, 2008
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- "Informatic Carrots and Shopping Malls: Food and Architecture in 1960s Paris", invited lecture, Media and Modernity Lecture Series, Princeton University, 2008
- "On Oppositions", paper presented at the conference Litte Magazines Then and Now (192X to 200X), Princeton University, 2007
- Organizer, New Architectural Research, Ph.D. forum at the Princeton University School of Architecture, 2004–05, 2005–06
- "Space, Gender and Pleasure at the Automat", paper presented at theSociety for the History of Technology Conference, 2005
- Organizer, Discipline Building, A Short History of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Princeton University, 2004 (conference report, in French)
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CONTACT
- mtenhoor at princeton dot edu