Aaron Betsky: Harris Armstrong Fund Lecture

Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher in Philadelphia. 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, Betsky is the author of more than twenty books on those subjects. He writes a weekly blog, “Beyond Buildings,” for Architect Magazine. Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale University, Betsky has served as the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, as well as curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, he directed the Venice Biennale of Architecture. His latest books are “The Monster Leviathan,” “Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse,” “Fifty Lessons from Frank Lloyd Wright,” “Making It Modern,” and “Architecture Matters.”