name: Aaron Betsky
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about: 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 t 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. ...more