Diana Agrest

Diana Agrest

Diana Agrest (born 1945 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian/American architect.

She co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York, and is director of the Diana Agrest Architect Studio.

She has participated in the design and building of numerous projects in Europe, United States, Asia and Latin America, spanning such types as urban projects, administrative buildings, residential structures, fully designed individual homes.

She has won many prizes, including the New York State Prize of Excellence, for the Melrose Community Center. She is the Professor of Architecture at Cooper Union, after having taught at Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University and the University of Paris in France.

Publications

  • Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice (1991)
  • Agrest and Gandelsonas, Works (1995)
  • The Sex of Architecture (1996)
  • A Romance with the City: The Work of Irwin S. Chanin (1982)

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