Folio: 2014/2015

by Alastair Gordon (Editor), Henry Rueda (Contributor)

This first edition of Folio represents a snapshot of one academic year of the Department of Architecture at Florida International University. It provides a look into the department’s diversity of design, research, and creative activity. The department’s mission and the value of making a book is a preoccupation of Folio. Its content reflects many student and faculty conversations and prompts real questions about who we are. Folio was made to create a physical archive of the ephemeral eff orts of our department. In it, you will fi nd student work, faculty research and essays about the life of the department and Miami. Designed as an object that occupies space, we introduce Folio into the world to celebrate the mission of our program and to establish it as the center of architectural discourse in the region.

About the Henry Rueda holds a Diploma de Arquitecto from the FAU at Universidad Central de Venezuela and a M.Sc. in Advanced Architectural Design from the GSAPP at Columbia University.

236 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2016

About the author

Alastair Gordon is an award-winning critic, curator, cultural historian and author whose work bridges art, architecture and the environment. For over twenty years he wrote for The New York Times and later became Contributing Editor for WSJ. Magazine, where he also created the popular “Wall-to-Wall” design blog. His essays have appeared in Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Le Monde and Dwell, among others. The author of more than twenty-eight books, including Weekend Utopia, Naked Airport and Theater of Shopping, Gordon also co-founded Gordon de Vries Studio, an imprint devoted to books on the human environment. He has taught at Harvard University and received multiple honors for excellence in architectural criticism.