Architect Deborah Berke Speaks About Timeless Design at Bennington College

October 28, 2005

Deborah Berke, who has designed buildings and interiors for clients such as Calvin Klein, Marlboro College's School of Art, and Harpers Bazaar's art director, ironically became the "go to" architect for the rich and famous following a 1993 Vogue article highlighting her as "an architect for the populous". Berke, who is a professor of architecture at Yale University, coeditor of the book Architecture of the Everyday, and trustee of the Design Trust for Public Space, will speak at Bennington College on Tuesday, November 1, 2005, at 7:30 pm in the Tishman Lecture Hall as part of the College's Visual Arts Lecture Series.

"Rather than create a revolutionary architecture, she is trying to create an invisible one," artist Peter Halley explained when describing Berke's work in New York Magazine. Berke began her career challenging the notion that architecture could be either cheap or well done. "She goes at designing architecture the same way I go at designing clothes. [Her designs] get things down to the core of what they are," says J. Crew executive and Berke client, Emily Woods.

This event is free and open to the public. For further information or parking queries, please contact 802-440-4549.