Peter Reyner Banham Fellow
Curt Gambetta
Curt Gambetta received his M.Arch from Rice University in 2009 and was subsequently the Coordinator of Publications and Events at the Rice School of Architecture. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at UB. Since 2003, he has been the moderator of the Urban Study Group e-list for the Sarai program of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, where he was also a resident in 2002-03 and 2004-05. He graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College in 2002. His work examines material histories of architecture in India, as well as research and design interventions into the politics of waste infrastructure. His writing has been published in journals such as Marg, Scapegoat and PLAT. He recently completed a public installation at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX, that sites the infrastructure of interior office lights in an outdoor urban space. He is also currently editing, with Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, a forthcoming issue of the Indian journal Seminar, entitled “The Future of the Street,” which draws from a symposium that he organized with a team of scholars in 2009 at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. As part of the Banham Fellowship, he is teaching a year-long seminar at the UB School of Architecture and Planning that challenges students to design experimental methodologies of research about the public life of infrastructures such as waste management.
Previous Banham Fellows
- 2010-11 Kenny Cupers
- 2009-10 Brian Tabolt
- 2008-09 Michael Kubo
- 2007-08 Eva Franch-Gilabert
- 2006-07 Sergio López-Piñeiro
- 2005-06 Jonathan Solomon
- 2004-05 Hilary Sample
- 2003-04 Grace Ong
- 2002-03 Donald Kunze
- 2001-02 Tsz Yan Ng
- 2000-01 Hugo Dworzak
Peter Reyner Banham (SUNY-Buffalo, 1976-80) produced a foundational body of scholarship on material/visual culture as a reflection of contemporary social life. The Banham Fellowship in Architecture is intended to support design work that situates architecture within the general field of socio-cultural and material critique.
