Aaron Betsky

Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. He is a Visiting Professor at the Michael Graves School of Public Architecture at Kean University and at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was Professor and Director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of art, architecture, and design, Mr. Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects. He writes a weekly blog, Beyond Buildings, for architectmagazine.com,. Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale University, Mr. Betsky has served as the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum (2006-2014) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2001-2006), as well as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995-2001). In 2008, he also directed the 11th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. His latest books are Assembling Community (2025), The Monster Leviathan (2024), Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse (2024), Fifty Lessons from Frank Lloyd Wright (2021), Making It Modern (2019) and Architecture Matters (2019).