Currently he is the 2012- 2013 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Previously he taught at Cornell University's 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, Maymind has worked for Richard Meier and Partners in New York City, Zago Architecture in Los Angeles.
Maymind earned a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University School of Architecture, where he received awards for history/ theory and design work; and held teaching fellow positions with Peter Eisenman and Vincent Scully. Previously, he received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (with honors and distinction) from Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture.
Selected Publications:
“ARCHIPELAGOS: Ungers vs. Rowe.” suckerPUNCH Fresh Punches Exhibition Catalogue.
"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)
“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.
ARCHIPELAGOS: Ungers vs. Rowe, Tue, Oct 9 '12
This brief text attempts to discuss two interrelated concerns: an examination of the techniques and analyses of the city that underpinned the work of O.M. Ungers and Colin Rowe, and secondly, the way in which that examination served as the conceptual foundation for a graduate architecture studio ...
Manhattanisms : RAM(s) vs. REM, Tue, Aug 14 '12
by Alexander Maymind & Matthew Persinger (published in Pidgin Magazine: Issue 11, Princeton University School of Architecture, p. 208-219.) “In other words, it’s Stern’s commonness as opposed to his rarity, that makes his work so significant.” - Mark Jarzombek[1] “Pretending ...
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, loosely ...
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, loosely ...
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, loosely ...
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, loosely ...
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, loosely ...
Student Works: Wal-(medley mixed-up mélange montage mash-up shopping) mart, Mon, Sep 21 '09
The following project was completed at Yale School of Architecture with studio critic, Keller Easterling in the fourth semester urban design studio. The project, sited in the Gowanus Canal, speculates on urban development strategies in a postindustrial area of Brooklyn, New York.
