Peter Reyner Banham Fellow
Brian Tabolt
Brian Tabolt received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with High Honors from the University of Virginia, where he was the recipient of the Z Society Edgar J Shannon Award for Design Excellence. Tabolt has worked in the offices of SHoP Architects and Agrest & Gandelsonas in New York among others. He has been an invited critic at Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Barnard College in addition to teaching architectural design studio at the University at Buffalo. Tabolt has also been an assistant instructor at the University of Virginia and Princeton University. In 2003 his collaboration with Peter Waldman received Second Prize in the Free Union School Competition in Charlottesville, Virginia. Tabolt was a founding editor and co-designer of Pidgin, a journal of the Graduate students of the Princeton University School of Architecture, now in its 6th bi-annual issue.
Tabolt's research will focus on reestablishing instrumental links between architecture and the contemporary American city. Essential to this research is an investigation of the formless quality of the contemporary city, read as the product of a collision between avant-garde ambitions and mass-cultural desires. The megastructure - modernism's last gasp to organize and combat the dispersed condition its own urban schemes had helped create - will be brushed against the grain of its original intentions for rigid management to create architectural proposals more open to this formless context. Through this technique, the normally strategic ambition of the megastructure becomes a tactic for rethinking the relationship between architecture and the city, the individual and the collective, at a variety of scales.
Previous Banham Fellows
- 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.
