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BENAMOR DUARTE STUDIO
BENAMOR DUARTE STUDIO is lead by Portuguese born architect and educator Eduardo Benamor Duarte in NYC. The studio is recognized for the design, production and exhibition of objects, installations, and landscape environments developed individually and in collaboration.
For several years, Eduardo has been using the bi dimensional transposition technique as a way to explore and investigate the prefiguration of the concept of interiority as an artifact made in full scale. This technique aims to develop the idea of adaptation and use by transposing the registers of the figurative and geometry drawing techniques to the physical qualities of a material to become an object or space for human engagement.
Since 2011 Eduardo Benamor Duarte is an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Interior Architecture where his pedagogy engages the ideas of recursion, adaptation and reconstitution of formal, informal and informational protocols in the context of Interior Studies at large.
Eduardo Benamor Duarte graduated with a Masters of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and a PhD from the Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa. His design of public spaces, objects for the domestic environment, museums & historic preservation have been shown globally including exhibits at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, Memphis Museum of Art, Bronx River Art Center, Fondazione Bottari Lattes, Salone Satellite, UNESCO Forum; First Green Open Art Space, NYl Bienniale Design Saint Etienne and Experimenta in Lisbon. His work has won awards from several institutions in Europe and the US, including the Ministério da Cultura, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FCT Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions (Individual and in collaboration)
2015 -16
“ Dancing Landscapes” Fondazione Bottari Lattes, Onion Pinch Installation and Dance Performance (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) October 10 2015 – March 20th 2016, opening for the celebration of President of European Parliament Martin Schulz honorary citizenship of Alba, Monforte, Alba, Italy
2014
“Art Lab” Museum of Art, University of Memphis, winning entry of call for proposals with Fijiji Blocks, ceramic blocks September 19-November 25/2014, curated by Jason Miller, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Group Exhibitions (Individual and in collaboration)
2018 - 2019
“ Mathematical Belonging” - public art Installation for River Rising/Sube el Rio: An Exposition of Science, Art and Technology (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) curated by Bronx River Art Center - Gail Nathan and Laura James , Starlight Park, Bronx, NY, June 29 2018- June 30 2019.
2015
“Visual Perspectives on Art Education” Exhibition Centre Heilingenkreuzer Hof, Onion Pinch, Video Installation
(collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) curated by Eve Marie Stadler , University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, - May 28-30 /2014.
2015 “ Duets / Art on Chairs” Paredes Polo do Design de Mobiliário, Cadeira Animada (para Paulo Coelho) –January 31s –May 31 2015
2014
“Circuitous Succession: Epilogue” Memphis Scottish Rite Cathedral, Onion Pinch, Video Installation (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) curated by Jason Miller, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, October 10-November 10 /2014
“Circuitous Succession: Epilogue” Memphis Scottish Rite Cathedral, Fijiji Blocks, ceramic blocks curated by Jason Miller, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, October 10-November 10 /2014,
“Maker Fair Rome 2014” winning entry of call for proposals with Cork Aperture Screen (CAS) - October 2-5 /2014, curated by Massimo Banzi and Riccardo Luna, Rome, Italy
“Art Lab” Museum of Art, University of Memphis, winning entry of call for proposals with Fijiji Blocks, ceramic blocks curated by Jason Miller, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 19-November 25/2014,
“Activating Public Geometry” First Street Green I Open Art Space, Fijiji Blocks, ceramic blocks - commissioned by First Street Green I Open Art Space and Critical Practices, Inc. , Lower East Side, August 03-10 /2014, NYC, USA
“Torino Mini Maker Faire” winning entry of call for proposals with Cork Aperture Screen (CAS) - May 31st 2014, curated by Bruce Sterling.
2013
“Doing and Undergoing” winning entry of call for proposals for a site-specific installation project celebrating Teachers College 125th year anniversary (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) Columbia University, curated by Robert Gero, NY – September – December 15 2013
“Onion Pinch” (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) photographic documentation featured at the 8th Biennale Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, EmpathiCITY curated by Laetitia Wolff
“Onion Pinch” (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) photographic documentation featured at Faculty Biennial, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2012
“Whirlers: An Exhilarating Energy System”, Land Art Generator Initiative, Soho Gallery for Digital Arts, October 2012 (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) curated by Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian, NY November 2012
“Fijiji Blocks”, Ceramic Installation, Wanted Design NYC 2011, NY Design Week 2012
2011
“Lic Chair”, Wanted Design NYC 2011, New York Design Week curated by Odile Hainault, ,16-20 May 2011
2010
“Onion Pinch” (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) video documentation featured at Mini Maousse 4, Cite’ de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Institut Francais d’Architecture, curated by Fiona Meadows, Paris, December 2010 – February 2011
“See, lay-on”, Salone Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair, curated by Marva Griffin, 14-21 April
2009
“Digital Primitive # 2 Trough Felt Along Curve”, (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) Experimenta Design Biennial, Lisbon, September –November 2009
“Digital Primitive Event #1” (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) Temporary Museum for New Design, SuperStudio Piu, Milan, 22-27 April 2009
Curator “Digital Primitive #2 Extended Iterative Design”, (collaborative project: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte) Lisbon, September –November 2009, Experimenta Design Biennial, Lisbon, September –November 2009
LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA
2018
Panelist, Crafting Global Citizenshipship, (panel with Laura Briggs, critic, RISD; Nicole Merola, professor, Literary Arts and Gwen Farrelly, executive director, RISD Global, AICAD 2018 Symposium School of the Art Institute of Chicago, November 7-8
Panelist, Crafting the City, Panel 1: Transmission of craft and design knowledges across learning communities in Crafting Cross-Cultural Exchange symposium, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum, October 24
Co-Organizer with Gwen Farrelly (executive director, RISD Global), Crafting Cross-Cultural Exchange symposium, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum, October 24-25
2017
Lecturer, Morphogenetic vs. Morphodynamics: Design and prototyping of sine wave surfaces, Experiments in digital and analogue analog fabrication of porcelain blocks, Biodigital Architecture & Genetics, third international conference, Barcelona, 7-10th June 2017, ESARQ School of Architecture, UIC Barcelona, Spain
2016
Lecturer, “On covering: critique as form of interpretation and appropriation in pedagogy for Art+Architecture education” Critique as Pedagogy, Art Critique 2.0, An International Symposium Columbia University, Teachers College November 18-19, NY, US
2015
Lecturer, “User Made Environments”, AR(T)CHITECTURE, An International Conference at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning April 19-21, Haifa, Israel
Lecturer, “Prototyping Adaptive Artifacts in Art & Design Pedagogy”, Symposium Perspectives on Art Education, Conversations Across Cultures, University of the Applied Arts May 28-30, Vienna, Austria
2014
Panelist, La Table Rotonde Public Interface on “ Activating Public Geometry” First Street Green I Open Art Space - August 03-/2014, within Critical Practices, Inc. , Lower East Side, NYC, USA
Lecturer, Remixing Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, April 2014 - Participant in panel Conversations Across Cultures with presentation of : Reflexive creativity: prototyping environments for a dialogical pedagogy in art and design, Symposium, Teachers College Columbia University April 11-12, 2014
Panelist, Mapping Learning Event, Chace Center, February 25th 2014 - Participant in panel discussion and presentation at RISD Global Classroom
2013
Panelist, Closing Event roundtable – Doing and Undergoing, Teachers College, Columbia University, December 15th 2013 – Moderated by Richard Jochum, participants: Nicholas Knight, Eduardo Benamor Duarte, Luis Camnitzer and Katherine Daniels.
Panelist, Layered worlds, Public Talk at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Palacio Pombal, November 23rd, 2013
Panelist, Mapping Making Event, RISD Chace Center, April 19 2013
2012
Lecturer – “Moving Along the Lines”, Design Circuit, Chelsea Piers, NY 2012
Lecturer – “Recent work”, Portuguese Architecture and Design, ICFF Talks, NY Design Week
2011
Lecturer – “Recent work”, Design Symposium Economia da Creatividade, IDEA Brasil, Sao Paulo
2010
Lecturer – “Sleeping Environments: Prototyping the napping space – student work from CCA”, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture / IST – Technical University of Lisbon
2009
Lecturer - “Tooling, Type Typing”, School of Architecture University of Texas at Austin
Lecturer - “Tooling Type Typing”, College of Art + Architecture Mississipi State University
2005
Lecturer - - “Recent work”, International Symposium, Akademie fur Baukultur, Granada
2004
Lecturer - “Architecture of Reconstitution”, School of Architecture - RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Articles in print publications of peer-reviewed conference proceedings
2017
Benamor Duarte, E., (2017), Morphogenetic vs. Morphodynamics: Design and prototyping of sine wave surfaces, Experiments in digital and analogue analog fabrication of porcelain blocks, Biodigital Architecture & Genetics, edited by Estèvez, Alberto T., ESARQ School of Architecture, UIC Barcelona, Spain. ISBN: 978-84-0368-4
2016
Benamor Duarte, E., On covering architecture: critique as form of interpretation and appropriation in Art School Critique 2.0,, edited by: Jochum, R. published by Teachers College, Columbia University, NY –
Benamor Duarte, E.(2016), User-Made Environments: Reflexivity & Digital Fabrication as Social Experience in Art & Interior Architecture Pedagogy, edited by: Aravot, I. & Margalith, D., Published by the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, I.I.T, Israel, 2016 ISBN: 978-965-91138-5-9
2015
Benamor Duarte, E. (2015) “Automated Experience: Prototyping Adaptive Artifacts in Art & Design Pedagogy”,: in Mateus-Berr, R. And Götsch, M. (ed.) Perspectives on Art Education, Conversations Across Cultures, Book Series of the University of the Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, De Gruyterl, pp.158-163.
Benamor Duarte, E. (2015) ““Reflexive creativity: prototyping environments for a dialogical pedagogy in art and design”,: in Jochum, R. And Burton, J. (ed.) Remixing Art Education, Conversations Across Cultures, Teachers College, New York, Columbia University, pp.86-89.
Articles in architecture and design book monographs
2015
Benamor Duarte, E. (2015) “The ability to flow between rational and subjective processes: drawing as experience and interpretation”,: in João Santa-Rita, M. (ed.) Post-it Pombalino, Lisboa, Caleidoscópio, pp.156-157.
2003
Benamor Duarte, E. “The Directorate of intelligence activated through interstitial time” (2003), in “Chronomorphology, Active time in Architecture”, Columbia University GSAPP 3rd year design studios 1999-2003 - edited by Ed Keller, New York, CBA –Columbia Books of Architecture, pp. 84-85
Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
E.Benamor Duarte, “Futuro”,: Revista Arquitectura, edited by Mario Chaves, Universidade Lusiada, December 2011
C.Tiazzoldi , E. Benamor Duarte «Toolbox» :intIAR Journal Volume 2, Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, edited by Liliane Wong, Markus Berger and Heinrich Herman, Rhode Island School of Design, January 2011
Articles in online peer-reviewed academic journals
E. Benamor Duarte, “Reflexive Creativity” In-Learning, edited by Teresa Heitor, Instituto Superior Tecnico – online publication
Articles in architecture + design magazines
C.Tiazzoldi , E. Benamor Duarte «Digital Primitive», in Arq.a, Lisbon,June 2009, pp.16 -21
Publication about my teaching experience
List of publications by others referencing academic work
Wong, Liliane “[In] light [in] habit [in] flux ”, Rhode Island School of Design, forthcoming
L. Herndon, Metropolis Magazine, “Exit the class room – The Tactile Stars”, July 2012
Williamson, Design Milk “ Prototyping the Domestic Environment by RISD students”, April 20, 2012
Publication of Work
List of publications by others about my design or research work with full reference
Books
2015
Staedler, E. (2015) 2015 “ Visual Perspectives on Art Education”, Onion Pinch Installation, in Mateus-Berr, R. And Götsch, M. (ed.) Perspectives on Art Education, Conversations Across Cultures, Book Series of the University of the Applied Arts Vienna, De Gruyterl, pp.179-180
Bartolo. J. (2015) “Coleção Design Português”, Vol.6., ed. Público, Lisboa pp. 87.
Baker, L. (2015) “Temporary Architecture”, Braun Publishing AG ISBN 978-0-03768-169-5, forthcoming
2013
Kottas, D. (2013), “See Lay-on”, project in chapter Digital Fabrication of Contemporary Digital Architecture: design & techniques, II Links Book, Barcelona, Spain, 2013, pp. 68-75
2012
S. Ehmann, S. Borges, R. Klanten, Onion Pinch in “Learning for Life / New Architecture for New Learning “, Germany, February 2012
Fiona Meadows, Jean-Louis Cohen, Alice Laguarda, Marcel Rufo, “Archi Petit - Mini Maousse 4, concours de microarchitecture / Construire XXS pour les plus jeunes “, Paris, September 2nd 2010
2010
Dimitris Kottas, “Porcupine”, project in chapter of Contemporary Digital Architecture: design & techniques, Links Book, Barcelona, Spain, April 2010 pp. 119-121, pp.166-169
“Designing the World / Salone Satellite 13ª edizione 2010”, April 2010
2009
“Digital Primitive # 2: Iterative Design” in “New Now Wow – It´s about time”. Experimenta Design 09, catalogue, Lisbon, September 2009, p. 114
“Negentropic Architecture: Temporal Conversion, Anamnesis and the International Organization, Ed Keller critic with Jason Anderson”, in Abstract, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation GSAPP Columbia University, editor Scott Marble, October 2002, pp. 83
Magazines and selected blogs
2015
Paglieri, M. (2015), “Il Langharolo Schulz da apassionatto a cittadino onorario”, La Reppublica, 11/10/2015, Torino, Italia, pp.ix.
Modern Decoration Home, “The story of the Loner”, June 2015, Vol.358, pp, China, pp. 114-121
Domus Web, Best of Wood, http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2015/04/11/best_of_wood.html#fb, 11 April 2015, Italy
Domus Web, A chair for Paulo Coelho, http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2015/04/11/best_of_wood.html#fb, 16 March 2015, Italy
Design District, Art + Design + Fashion + Entertainment, Market Council, Miami, “Portuguese Architect Animada Chair is a work of Art”, Spring 2015, pp.32, USA
Inhabitat, Eduardo Benamor Duarte’s sculptural Animada chair is made from rotating ash ribs http://inhabitat.com/eduardo-benamore-duartes-sculptural-animada-chair-is-made-from-rotating-ash-ribs/ , 3rd March 2015, USA
Design Milk, A curvy chair for best selling writer Paulo Coelho, http://design-milk.com/curvy-chair-best- selling-writer-paulo-coelho/, 31 Marhc 2015, USA
Yanko Design, Change in Equilibrium, http://www.yankodesign.com/2015/03/05/change-in-equilibrium/, March 5th 2015, USA
Público, E à 2a edição o Art on Chairs criou uma Marca em Paredes, Abel Coentrão, February 3rd 2o15
La Stampa, Monforte, Cittadinanza onoraria a Martin Schulz,
http://www.lastampa.it/2015/10/10/multimedia/edizioni/cuneo/monforte-cittadinanza-onoraria-a-martin-schulz-bruno-murialdo-BIB77uXD8wL2jPP3x9wlMK/pagina.html, October 10th 2015, Italy
BOB Magazine, Onion Pinch, July 2014, South Korea
2014
WIRED, Beyond the Beyond by Bruce Sterling, blog entry “Architecture Fiction: The Whirlers”
http://archive.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2014/06/architecture-fiction-whirlers
“ Suckerpunchdaily, “Whirler”, October 2013
Domus Web, Onion Pinch at RISD, January 2013 https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2013/03/01/onion-pinch-at-risd.html
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/doing-and-undergoing-at-columbia-teachers-college/
http://eyes-towards-the-dove.com/2014/01/highlights-from-2013-previews-for-2014/
2012
Designboom, “Eduardo Benamor Duarte: Fijiji blocks #1”, 2012
Core 77, “ New York Design Week 2012, Fijiji Blocks”2012
Designspotter, “ New York Design Week 2012, Fijiji Blocks”, 2012
2011
N. Del Buono, Extratendenze: Dalla natura al progetto, Ante prima “Rapigattoli chair” in AD Italia, April 2012, pp. 208
J. Cardoso, “Onion Pinch”, Publico Newspaper, January 2011, pp.34
2010
Nischa Design Magazine, Israel, October 2010, pp. 55
V. Ciuffi, «Onion Pinch Baroque Counterpoise», Abitare, mazineblog, September 30th 2010
«Onion Pinch Baroque Counterpoise», Frame, magazine blog, Septemper 30th 2010
A. Caracol, “Casa Portuguesa “ Revista Sabado, Lisbon, October 2010, p .10-11
M. Bonifacio, “coisas de Arquitecto”, Arquitectura & Construção, Lisbon,September 2010
p.10-14
“Design delires, la chaise rapigattoli “, Palace Costes, Paris, June-July 2010, p.76-91
P. Barnabe, “Zapping”, Vogue, Portugal, July 2010, p.70-71
C.Macedo, “Formulas andantes”, MaximaInteriores, Lisbon, July 2010, p .46-47
M. Padovani, «Sogni e Segni, Indesign Incenter», Interni, May, 2010,p.64, 65
L. Kyung Taek, “Resting Station Made of Cork, Onion Pinch Design”, Space Magazine, Korea, issue 508 March 2010, p.48
F. Kobler, “Design News /Filz zum Faulenzen” , Weekend Magazin, Germany, March 2010, p.41
Durand, “News /Pincee d’Onion” , Ecologik, February 2010, p.13
A. Escot, “Art de Vivre /Meubles sur mesure”, BuyBuy, France, 2010, p.28
“Products/Porcupine”, ICON, architecture, design, culture, United Kingdom, February 2010, p. 100
“Products/Onion Pinch”, ICON, architecture, design, culture, United Kingdom, January 2010, p. 69
2009
X. Hoo, “Digital Primitive”, Surface China, December 2009, p. 65.
Ventura Maria Ana, “Rapigattoli Chair”, UP – TAP Air, Portugal, November 2009, p. 57.
L. Sartori, “Extraordinari”, DCasa. La Repubblica, Milan, October 2009, p. 42
I. Zambianchi, “Rassegne/L’ora del design”, BravaCasa, Milan, October 2009, p. 54.
E. Sommariva, “Digital Primitive/Caterina Tiazzoldi, Eduardo Benamor Duarte”, Domus,July 2009 p. 36
P. Macedo, “Escolhas do editor”, Vogue, Lisbon, July 2009, pp.37
“Sabores”, Unica, Expresso, June 2009, pp.45
V. Farelli, “Dove Extra, Milano Superstudio Più”, Casa Milano, Milan, June 2009, p. 39.
S. Gleizes, Objects de desir, AD France, June 2009, pp.17
E. Sommariva, “Digital Primitives, Salone 09”, Domus, Milan, May 2009, p. 12.
C. Tiazzoldi, «Digital Primitives», A+D+M , May 2009, pp. 12-14
P. Belloni, L. Maggi, S. Audoly, P. Carimati, “Superstudiopiù, Digital Primitive”, ELLE Decor, Milan, April 2009, p. 58.
P. Belloni, L. Maggi, S. Audoly, P. Carimati, “Basement, Tiazzoldi-Nuova Ordentra / Benamor Duarte Architects”, ELLE Decor, Milan, April 2009, pp. 25 e 39.