Michael Bell
(1960)
USA
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Michael Bell set up his New York based agency Michael Bell Architecture in 1989. He is an associate professor at Columbia in New York, where he co-directs the “Core Design Studios”, and coordinates the Housing Department programme. His agency is recognized for its research into low-cost housing and in urban development. In 2001, Michael Bell was commissioned, among other things, by the Architectural League of New York to direct a team of architects involved in designing 1800 housing units on a plot of more than 100 acres belonging to the New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He has also founded “16 Houses”, a research programme concerned with housing in Houston (Texas) for the Fifth Ward Redevelopment Corporation. His often prizewinning projects have been exhibited at the MoMa, the Yale School of Architecture, and at the Architectural League of New York. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco MoMa. Michael Bell is the author of 16 Houses: Designing the Public’s Private House and Space Replaces Us, both published in 2003. He is also co-editor, with Sze Tsung Leong, of Slow Space. Michael Bell has taught, among other places, at Rice University in Houston, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. |