Associate Professor. Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Director, Geofutures Master of Science in Architecture Program
Office: Greene Building, Room # 105
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Phone: 518-276-8435

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Chris Perry is Associate Professor (with tenure) and Associate Dean at the Rensselaer School of Architecture where he is also the director of the Master of Science in Architecture program. Prior to Rensselaer, Perry was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, an endowed professorship, and prior to that appointment he taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Rice University, the University of Toronto, RMIT in Melbourne, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design.

He received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate University, and prior to becoming a full-time faculty member at Rensselaer, was a Presidential Fellow in MIT’s doctoral program in architectural history, theory and criticism.

He is co-recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects Award and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, co-editor of AD: Collective Intelligence in Design (Wiley-Academy) and a special issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press), co-chair of ACADIA’s 2015 Annual Conference as well as co-editor of its proceedings and a former member of its Board of Directors, co-curator of the exhibition Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural, and co-editor of a forthcoming book featuring work from the Ambiguous Territory exhibition and content from its affiliated symposium (Actar Publishers).

Perry is co-principal of the experimental design practice pneumastudio, the work of which has been exhibited at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Design Museum in Barcelona, and NYU. Publishers that have featured pneumastudio’s work include Routledge, Actar, Prestel, and Wiley-Academy. Perry’s previous design practice, servo, of which he was a co-founder and co-principal for eleven years, was featured in group exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Centre Pompidou, MoMA/PS1, SFMoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Artists Space in New York, as well as solo exhibitions at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Cornell University, and UCLA, and books by MIT Press, Princeton Architectural Press, Thames & Hudson, Rizzoli, and Phaidon.

Website: www.pneumastudio.org

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