Date: February 25, 2009
William Menking is the founder and editor of The Architect's Newspaper. Published in both New York and California, the papers highlight the latest design projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, current events and cultural developments in architecture, as well as urban design and planning. He has organized, curated and created catalogues for exhibitions on architecture and urbanism for venues in the U.S., England and Europe, including Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974, Superstudio Life Without Objects and FRAC Orleans: Experimental Architecture 1964-2000, Forever Modern: Fifty Years of Record Housesand Shrinking Cities. He was commissioner and co-curator of the United States pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. The title of the exhibition--and of his CALA presentation--is Into the Open: Positioning Practice. It proposes that social, cultural and spatial boundaries be understood as a new kind of center that can and should act as a definer of architectural problems.
