MEREDITH TENHOOR

architecture, (sub)urbanism, media, food, biopolitics

2011-2012 LECTURES
• 08/13: "Fulton Mall" in "The NY Leftover Bailout”, BMW Guggenheim Lab, organized by Jeanne van Heeswijk
• 08/21: "Fire Hydrants, Water Access", in "Architecture for Everyone: Interboro Partners" BMW Guggenheim Lab, organized by Interboro Partners
• 10/04: “Narrating Utopie”, Storefront for Art and Architecture
• 10/18: “What is to be Written”, Harvard University Graduate School of Design Lecture Series
• 11/18: "Planning by Design on Fulton Street" SACRPH Conference, Baltimore
• 12/8: "Espaces empruntés, lieux Inventés" Democracité Conference, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France
• 2/24: "Food in the Suburbs" Boston University Food in the City Conference, Boston
• 11/08 3/12:“The Infrastructure of Mass Consumption”, SVA Design Criticism Lecture Series
• 3/29: Pratt Institute School of Architecture Spring Lecture Series: Four Theoretical Lenses on Occupy Wall Street
• 5/4 and 5: "Food, Markets and Landscape in Postwar France" Food and the City, Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium 2012, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC
• 6/24: Food Infrastructures, Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference, NYC

CURRENT PROJECTS
• The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative has launched its website. Our first book, Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century will be out in April 2012
• 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
• "The Architect’s Farm", a history of architecture and agriculture, appears in Above the Pavement — the Farm! Architecture & Agriculture at PF1 edited by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood.
• I am completing my dissertation, "The Architecture of the Market: Food, Media and Biopolitics from Les Halles to Rungis" at the School of Architecture, Princeton University
• I teach seminars in architectural 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 agriculture program at the Metropolitan Exchange in Downtown Brooklyn

PUBLICATIONS (show)
• "Decree, Design, Exhibit, Consume: Making Modern Markets in France, 1953–1979" in Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Timothy Hyde, Arindam Dutta, and Daniel Abramson, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press
• Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall, with Rosten Woo and Damon Rich. Princeton Architectural Press/Inventory Books, 2010
• "The Architect’s Farm", in Above the Pavement — the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at PF1, edited by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. 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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EXHIBITIONS (show)
• Open City: Designing Coexistence, the 4th International Architecture Biennale – Rotterdam, 2009
• Brooklyn Exchanges: Design, Development and the Future of Brooklyn, 2009
• Values and Variety - Shopping on Fulton Street, 2005-08
• Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X, 2006-10
• The Automat of the Future in Recipes for Downtown, 2006
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EVENTS (show)
• Street Value at Studio X, Fall 2010
• Lifestyle panel at UNDERDOME, Fall 2010
• "The Architect's Farm", talk at the Farm City Conference, Fall 2010
• Walking tour of Fulton Street Mall, June 2010
• 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
• meredith at mtenhoor dot net