In Search of Spatial Scripts
In Search of Spatial Scripts
by Peter Waldman
Book Talk
Fri, Sept 25, 12PM
Campbell Van Lengen Lobby
Exhibition
Fri, Sept 25 – Fri, Oct 30
Campbell Corner Gallery
In Search of Spatial Scripts by Peter Waldman is a re-collection of improvisational stories and stage sets that traces two construction sites: Parcel X Encampment (1994), Waldman’s self-designed home in North Garden, Virginia, and The Goodwin Memorial (2004) on the North Terrace of UVA School of Architecture’s Campbell Hall. Structured in three acts and inspired by literary and theatrical works, the book frames architecture as performance, exploring place, memory, and construction through evolving narratives. Waldman incorporates multiple perspectives on architecture-as-storytelling through the photographic insights of former students, exchanges with designer David Turnbull, and the author's encounters with David Ireland’s House as Museum in San Francisco.
In Search of Spatial Scripts is the culmination of Waldman's trilogy, which includes Lessons from the Lawn (2019), and Connective Tissues (2020), and caps a 25-year teaching and research effort at UVA School of Architecture.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
About the Author
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Peter Waldman is rumored to have quarried mica ever since his early childhood explorations of the wilderness of New York City more than half a century ago. He studied architecture from 1961-69, first at Princeton University, and later as a Peace Corps volunteer in Arequipa, Peru. He served his apprenticeship in the studios of Richard Meier briefly and more substantially with Michael Graves. Since the 1970s, he has been an architect and educator teaching first at Princeton, then at Rice University and currently at the University of Virginia, where he is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture.