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Aaron Betsky is an American critic on art, architecture and design. He was the director of
Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design
until early 2022.
Trained as an architect and in the humanities at
Yale University
, he is the author of over a dozen books, including Architecture Matters, Making It Modern, Landscrapers: Building With the Land, Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, Queer Space, Revelatory Landscapes, and Architecture Must Burn. Internationally known as a lecturer, curator, reviewer and commentator, he writes the blog "Beyond Buildings" for Architect Magazine. Director of the 11th
Venice Architecture Biennale
, he has also been president and Dean of the School of Architecture at Taliesin (originally the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture), director of the
Netherlands Architecture Institute
(2001-2006) the
Cincinnati Art Museum
(2006-2014), and was founding Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(1995-2001). As an unlicensed architect, he worked for
Frank O. Gehry and Associates
and Hodgetts + Fung. In 2003, he co-curated "Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio" at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
.
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