Room 5
Alex Schweder/Architecture/Performance/USA
Alex Schweder is the 2005-2006 Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. Currently teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Schweder is developing new work in a category he designates as performance architecture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Henry Urbach Architecture in New York, the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and the Museo d'Arte Contemporane di Roma. Schweder's projects have been collected by several prominent institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Schweder is the author of Peeple (2002), a three-part installation and Stalls Between Walls included in Ladies and Gents, the Gendering of Public Toilets. Alex Schweder holds a Master in Architecture degree from Princeton University (1998) and a Bachelor in Architecture degree from Pratt Institute (1993).
