Fairy Tale Architecture: Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer

Join RWU for a talk with Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer, curators and authors of the Fairy Tale Architecture exhibition and book of the same name.

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Andrew Bernheimer is a Brooklyn-based architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Parsons School of Design. He leads an eponymous firm responsible for a wide variety of residential, civic, and cultural projects, including new multi-unit affordable housing developments across the five boroughs as well as award-winning private residences in the northeast region. The studio is also currently the only private architectural firm in the United States with unionized labor. At Parsons Bernheimer teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate architecture sequences. Bernheimer edited “Timber in the City”, and co-edited the collection “Fairy Tale Architecture”, The latter is a collection of work by Bernheimer’s own practice and several other architectural practices based at Places Journal, investigating storytelling, narrative image-making, and the architectural space of literature. In 2018 Bernheimer was elevated to the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects.

Kate Bernheimer is Program Director, MFA Creative Writing and Professor of English at the University of Arizona, and her work as an author, critic, and professor explores the intersections of contemporary fairy tales with multiple disciplines. Her most recent book is Office at Night, a novella co-authored with Laird Hunt. She also is the author of two story collections, How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales (illustrated by Catherine Eyde) and Horse, Flower, Bird (illustrated by Rikki Ducornet) both published by Coffee House Press. Bernheimer teaches creative writing (fiction) workshops and classes about contemporary fairy tales as an art form.

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