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BIOGRAPHIES

Eric Schuldenfrei
Teaching Appointments: Architectural Association School of Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Eric Schuldenfrei is the Principal of his own practice ESKQ. He is a designer and artist who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. Recent projects include an art installation for Agnes Gund, President Emerita of MoMA, in collaboration with architect Markus Dochantschi; time-lapse animations for all eight finalists of the World Trade Center Memorial Competition for the LMDC; and a short film created with Christian Bruun for "Non standard Architectures" featuring the architecture of Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Past work includes "Alladeen", a cross media collaboration with Moti Roti and The Builders Association, currently on tour worldwide; and an animation for "the City without a Ghetto," in conjunction with Marisa Yiu and The Center for Urban Pedagogy. Further projects include computer animations for Diller + Scofidio and The Builders Association's multi-media theater work "Jet Lag"; and an animation and video installation "The Measure of All Things," a collaboration with artist Haluk Akakce which was exhibited at Casino Luxembourg, P.S.1, NY; Kunst Werke, Berlin; The Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt; and the Centre d' art Contemporain, Geneva. Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu were finalists for the Athens 2004 Olympics installation for the ‘look of the city’ project and have collaborated on other projects such as ‘By-Product’ and ‘Blue-prints for Art in General’. In addition to Princeton University and Columbia University, he has taught in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania; the Integrated Design Curriculum and the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design. He holds a Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University and a Masters of Philosophy from Cambridge University, U.K.

Marisa Yiu
Marisa Yiu’s interdisciplinary design collaborative called MKSYIU STUDIO examines architecture, global politics, social and urban networks. Her interest lies in how the built environment and constructs of labor shape social relationships and potential connections between design, civic engagement and sustainability. Yiu is currently working with PlaceMatters (NYC), the Rebuild Chinatown Initiative (RCI) and Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE), a non-profit organization that is a nationally recognized affordable housing and social provider. Other projects include ‘No Sweat’, an installation shown at the exhibition honoring the 30th anniversary of AAFE, and ‘Brandspider’ for the Whitney Museum’s ISP exhibition entitled EMPIRE/STATE: Artists engaging Globalization. Yiu’s collaborations with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Eric Schuldenfrei have been shown at the Storefront for Art and Architecture and at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Yiu and Schuldenfrei recently collaborated on ‘Chinatown WORK 2006’ an interactive public arts project sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, September 11th Fund, the Manhattan Community Arts fund supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs of NYC and 3FORM and widely published. Yiu taught a seminar entitled ‘Public Construction’ with Netherlands-based UNstudio architects, Ben Van berkel and Caroline Bos; at the Integrated Design Curriculum of Parsons; and ‘City of Neighborhoods’ workshops at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Previously, she worked as a Designer on various notable projects in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and New York at KPF Architects (2001-2005). From 1998-1999 at Marble.Fairbanks Architecture NY, and speculative projects with Laura Kurgan and Natalie Jeremijenko.. She received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize (the highest honor) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Princeton University for her design and research thesis project entitled ‘Behind the Label: the global assembly’. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Princeton University.