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Diana Agrest was born on 1945 in United States, is an American architect. Discover Diana Agrest's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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1945

Diana I. Agrest (born 1945) is a practicing architect and urban designer and an architecture and urban design theorist, in New York City.

From the beginning of her career, while still a student, she started developing critical work on urban discourse as a result of the inefficiency of the existing urban design theories and models, and her need to find alternative ways to think about the city in relation to her practice.

As a result, she developed critical work, both in theory and practice alternatively.

She was on the forefront of a poststructuralist approach as a tool for critically re-thinking architecture, and particularly the city and Urbanism.

Agrest is a full-time, tenured Professor of Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

1967

As a filmmaker she has written, produced and directed the documentary film "THE MAKING OF AN AVANT-GARDE©: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967–1984", which has had its Premiere at The Museum of Modern Art in NY in 2013 and has since been screened at a number of Museums, universities and festivals.

Books by Diana Agrest:

Her work and essays are featured in books and encyclopedias including:

Her firm's works as well as her own theoretical projects have been the subject of numerous essays.

1969

Agrest started her practice very early on, after her studies in Paris doing experimental and theoretical projects and competitions from 1969 to 1977.

1972

She was a full-time lecturer at Princeton University School of Architecture starting in 1972-1973.

She was the first woman architect to teach at the University.

She taught both design studio and theory including the influential course "The Theoretical Practice of Architecture".

In 1972 she became a fellow of The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, where she remained a fellow until 1984.

At the IAUS she did research on the concept of 'place' from a semiotic perspective, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and taught at the Undergraduate Program in Architectural Education, where she was in charge of the pedagogical orientation of the design studios.

She later became the Director of the Advanced Workshop in Architecture and Urban Form.

1973

This work was originally presented as "Design Vs Non-Design: A Problem in the Re-definition of Architecture" at Berkeley in 1973.

1976

This was later published as "Design Vs Non Design" in Oppositions 6, 1976.

Film and the city has been the subject of a number of essays as well as an important tool in her pedagogical approach.

1977

Based on this work, in 1977 she was offered a teaching position by John Hejduk, dean of the school of architecture at the Cooper Union.

1978

In 1978, Diana Agrest co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas, and in 1980 Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York.

As an architect and urbanist she has been involved in the design and building of projects, with her firm in the US, Asia, Europe and South America, ranging from urban design projects and master plans, institutional and residential buildings to single family houses and interiors that have been received numerous awards.

Her work focuses on urban projects at various scales and the city informs her smaller scale architecture.

Recent projects and buildings include John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines, Iowa; Des Moines Vision Plan, second Phase; Green Belt, South Amboy, NJ; International Film Center, Shanghai, China; Master Plan and Urban Design for 5 Sq. Miles in Xu Jia Hui, Shanghai, China ; Manhattan West, Master Plan for West Side of Manhattan ;Master Plan for the Renault Trapeze Site in Boulogne Billancourt, France.

Buildings include Private residence in the West Hollywood Hills; Breukelen Community Center, Brooklyn, New York; Melrose Community Center; Farm Complex in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay; Farm Complex, Renovation and Additions, Sagaponack, New York, etc. . She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

She has also developed a number of theoretical projects on her own, such as Les Echelles, a house for a musician in Majorca, Spain; Park Square, Boston; the China Basin project in San Francisco, for SFMOMA.

Nature

1987

Between 1987 and 1994 she divided her teaching between Cooper Union and Columbia University.

She has also taught as a guest professor at Yale University, Princeton University and Paris 8 University.

1989

Since 1989, she has been working on the subject of nature and urban discourse starting with her visionary project for China Basin which was ahead of its time in proposing a critical exploration of the relationship between nature and urbanism dispensing with buildings, being a pioneer in what became later called "landscape urbanism".

Out of this project she wrote the theoretical essay "The Return of the Repressed: Nature".

1993

Based on her theoretical work on the subject, she was approached in 1993 to create a program at The Whitney Museum of American Art, sponsored by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rockefeller Foundation and New York University on film and the city.

As a result, she created and directed "Framing the City: Film, Video, Urban Architecture", where she developed an approach to Urban Architecture whereby film is used in its relation to the city by producing "filmic readings" of the city, as a point of departure for the production of urban form.

She has applied this approach to her Design Studios, thus expanding the way of approaching urban design practice and theory.

1996

She also was a finalist as candidate for the deanship at Pratt Institute in 1996.

2001

She was a candidate for the deanship at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 2001, but withdrew as semi-finalist.

2009

She has since worked on the subject of Nature itself, in writing and teaching and developing since 2009 an advanced research studio which she directs in the MArch II Program at Cooper Union.

Film

Agrest has had a longstanding passion for film and developed an approach to urban architecture based in great part on film and film theory.

She was the first to bring this subject to the fore in architecture as a critical theoretical subject.