Helene Furján

Biography

B.Arch., University of Auckland
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Helene Furján is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at PennDesign. She has had essays and reviews published in journals including Gray Room, AAFiles, Assemblage, Casabella, Journal of Architecture, JAE, and Interstices. She has recently published Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation, co-edited with Sylvia Lavin (New York: Monacelli, 2005), and has chapters in Softspace (Routledge, 2006), the 2006-07 MAK Center exhibition catalogue, Gen(H)ome (2006), 306090: Models (2008), and the forthcoming Temporalism (Princeton Architectural Press), an AD Special Issue, Energies: New Material Boundaries, and an essay in the catalogue to the 2008 "Performalism: Form and Function in Digital Architecture" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Helene is co-editor and Faculty Advisor for the PennDesign book series, VIA (volume 1, VIA: Occupations, May 2008; volume 2, VIA: Dirt, due 2009). She is completing a book on John Soane's house-museum, Soane's Spectacular Theater, and her current research investigates special effects, networks, urban feedback systems and epigenetics in architecture.

She will participate in the 2008 TBA21 Lopud seminar, "let's go MENTAL!", at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation to discuss the recently commissioned Garden of Earthly Delights pavilion by R&SiE.