NINA RAPPAPORT is an architectural critic, curator, and educator. She is publications director at Yale School of Architecture and editor of the biannual publication Constructs (numbering 20), the exhibition catalogs (numbering 30), as well as the school’s book series (10 to date). She is currently working on the exhibition, the Vertical Urban Factory, which will open in New York in fall 2010 and travel.

Her book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation, for which she received New York State Council on the Arts and Graham Foundation in the Fine Arts grants, was published by the Monacelli Press in 2007. Her essay from that research, “Deep Decoration” appeared in 30/60/90, Fall 2006. She has contributed essays to Architecture, Architectural Record, Praxis, Future Anterior, and Tec21 among other architectural publications.

She has taught seminars on the post-industrial factory and on innovative engineers at Barnard College, City College, and Yale School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design and is currently an adjunct professor teaching a colloquium in the Syracuse in NYC program each semester.

She was a Design Trust for Public Space Fellow and co-author of Long Island City: Connecting the Arts (Episode Books, 2006).

She is Chair of Docomomo-New York/Tristate.

Her recent seminars include:
+ Alternative Urbanisms, Parsons School of Design, Fall 2008 and Syracuse in NYC 2009 and 2010.

+ The Post Industrial Factory, Barnard/Columbia College, Spring 2008.
+ Eco-Urbanism, Parsons Design Studio MArch 1, second year, Fall 2007.
+ Vertical Urban Factory, Design Studio MArch 1, third year, Fall 2006

Send an email to nina@ninarappaport.com
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