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tim durfee, architect/curator

durfee/regn and made-up

 

Tim Durfee leads an interdisciplinary architectural practice based in Los Angeles, and directs amp: Projects in Media and Architecture, an initiative he founded last year within the Graduate Media Design program (MDP) at Art Center College of Design that experiments with new modes of research, expression, and application of ideas of contemporary relevance. Before joining the MDP in 2009, Durfee was on the core architectural design faculty and director of Visual Studies at SCI-Arc. He is a member of the noise ensemble Health & Beauty.

 

Durfee’s perspective on architecture as part of a social and cultural continuum, including and beyond built form, is rooted in his background in critical writing, experimental interface design, digital media, architecture, and exhibitions (with Durfee Regn Sandhaus and DurfeeRegn he has produced award-winning exhibition designs and installations for many museums including LACMA, The Hammer and The International Center of Photography.)

 

Projects, publications, and performances in 2011 include: design of new permanent galleries and exhibitions at Banning Museum and private residential projects (with Iris Anna Regn); with amp (formally known as “LikeNow”) curated exhibition MADE UP: Design’s Fictions, and currently co-authoring a book of the same title (with Anne Burdick).