Alexander Maymind is an architect, educator and writer. Maymind will be the 2012- 2013 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Previously he taught at Cornell University, Department of Architecture in both Ithaca and New York City.
His speculative design, research, criticism, and interviews have been published in Log, Pidgin, Thresholds, Conditions, and One: Twelve; and online at Archinect.com and ArchDaily.com. Professionally he has worked for Eisenman Architects, Richard Meier and Partners, Zago Architecture, and Work AC. Maymind received a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University School of Architecture, where he received awards for history/ theory and design work; and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (with honors and distinction) from Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture.
His current projects include assembling a forthcoming book of collected essays from the critic Jeffrey Kipnis; and a series of comparative essays on prominent architectural figures.
Selected Publications:
“Archipelagos: OMU vs. OMA.” (forthcoming)
"Still Ugly After All These Years: A Close Reading of the Wexner Center." One: Twelve, Knowlton School of Architecture Journal.
“Manhattanisms: RAM(s) vs. REM.” Pidgin: Issue 11, Fall 2011 (with Matthew Persinger).
“5 Projects / 5 Interviews: Postmodernisms”
www.Archinect.com & www.ArchDaily.com (Spring 2011)
-Mark Talbot
-Adam Tomski
-Matthew Persinger
-Brian Spring
-Alexander Maymind
“Urban Follies: Pavilions and the Apolitical.” LOG 18, Winter 2010 (with Parsa Khalili).
“Painterly Cosmetics: How to Tattoo a Marble Skin.” Thresholds 37: SEX, January 2010.
“Copycat.” Conditions Magazine for Architecture &Urbanism, Issue #2- Interpretation and Copy, October 2009.
“On Wal-mart Urbanism and Shopping Today” (with Cody Davis). Archinect Student Works Feature, September 2009. Interview by John Jourden.
“Everything in its Place: Wal (shopping) mart” (with Cody Davis). Thresholds 35: Difference, June 2008.
49 Cities: By Density (with WORKac) 1st Edition. Published by Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2008.
“On Glass Houses: The Binocular House” Research Essay for Professor Michael Bell, Winter 2007.
Still Ugly After All These Years: A Close Reading of Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center, Tue, May 22 '12
(Published in One: Twelve Issue 4, April 2012.) Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University has been typically understood through its relationship to and manipulation of then-current postmodern trends within architectural discourse. While the discussion about the ...
5 Projects: Interview 5 - Alexander Maymind, Thu, Apr 14 '11
5 (student) Projects: is a group of projects completed at Yale University's School of Architecture by 5 young architects during their graduate education. Each of the 5 projects are sited in New Haven on or adjacent to Yale's campus. Each project focused on an institutional building ...
5 Projects: Interview 4 - Brian Spring, Thu, Apr 14 '11
5 (student) Projects: is a group of projects completed at Yale University's School of Architecture by 5 young architects during their graduate education. Each of the 5 projects are sited in New Haven on or adjacent to Yale's campus. Each project focused on an institutional building ...
5 Projects: Interview 3 - Matthew Persinger, Tue, Apr 12 '11
5 (student) Projects: is a group of projects completed at Yale University's School of Architecture by 5 young architects during their graduate education. Each of the 5 projects are sited in New Haven on or adjacent to Yale's campus. Each project focused on an institutional building ...
5 Projects: Interview 2 - Adam Tomski, Tue, Apr 12 '11
5 (student) Projects: is a group of projects completed at Yale University's School of Architecture by 5 young architects during their graduate education. Each of the 5 projects are sited in New Haven on or adjacent to Yale's campus. Each project focused on an institutional building ...
5 Projects: Interview 1 - Mark Talbot, Thu, Apr 7 '11
5 (student) Projects: is a group of projects completed at Yale University's School of Architecture by 5 young architects during their graduate education. Each of the 5 projects are sited in New Haven on or adjacent to Yale's campus. Each project focused on an institutional building ...
Cornell University, Visiting Faculty, (NYC and Ithaca)
5115: Graduate Architectural Studio: “Rowe & Ungers: Applied Sciences Campus”
7111: Graduate Architectural Studio: “Urban Section: New York City”
6509: Visual Representation Elective: “Textual Analysis: 1950-2000”
6509: Visual Representation Elective: “Delirious Koolhaas: Scrutinizing OMA”
5512: Digital Architectural Representation: “Crisis of Drawing”
1011: B. Arch Architectural Studio: “Education of an Architect, Part 1”
1011: B. Arch Architectural Studio: “Education of an Architect, Part 2”
1013: Analog Architectural Representation Workshops
1014: Digital Architectural Representation Workshops
5092: Thesis Advising
