PETER YEADON
www.yeadon.net
risd connection: Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Architecture; at RISD since 2002
about his work: A registered architect in the US and Canada, Peter Yeadon maintains an innovative, research-based professional practice. Critics and curators have described his projects as being closely aligned with Visionary Architecture, the speculative architecture of future possibilities. Yeadon is currently researching the architectural implications of a variety of spectacular developments that are emerging from nanoscience and bio-nanoscience laboratories. He is particularly interested in the future of molecular self-assembly, self-replication and programmable matter. Yeadon’s body of built and conceptual work ranges from large institutional buildings and monuments to subatomic nanostructures. Together with Martina Decker, he recently received an award from the Boston Society of Architects for a World Trade Center memorial design proposal.
road to risd: Yeadon earned his Master of Architecture degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his thesis work was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal of Excellence. Over the following decade he lived and worked in London, Berlin, Montreal, Toronto and Rome — sometimes more than once, and with a few smaller cities in between. “At times, the only permanent address I could claim was my website address,” he says. In 1999-2000 Yeadon received the Canadian Prix de Rome for his work. After returning from Italy he taught in the architecture departments at Cornell University and the University of Toronto before coming to RISD in 2002.
insights: “This is a new epoch. The challenge of our time is to think small, infinitesimally small. My work argues that architecture can no longer ignore the achievements of disciplines that are creating new forms of life and are altering the fundamental properties of matter. As in the past, the scientific innovations that surround us today will imminently inspire a new spirit in architecture.”
courses taught
Advanced Design Studio: Future Studio
Introductory Design Studio
Structures
Building Systems Interface
selected collections
A Case of Instruments, private collection, Windsor, Ontario
Bias Cutlery, private collection, New York City
Prix de Rome Folio of Drawings, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec
Prix de Rome Folio of Drawings, private collection, Toronto, Ontario
Prix de Rome drawings and proofs, private collections, Munich, Rome, New York City, Montreal, Toronto, Halifax
House for Single Person, original model, private collection, Montreal, Quebec
selected recent exhibitions
2004 Outrageous Home, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2004
ArtCITY Installations, Calgary, Alberta
2004 Unbuilt Architecture
Awards, Boston [MA] Society of Architects
2004 Building/Art,
University of Calgary, Alberta
2003 ArtCITY Peep Show, Calgary,
Alberta
2003 Common Ground/Architecture League of New York: First Step,
New York
2003 RISD Faculty Biennial, Providence, RI
2002 Building/Art,
traveling exhibition organized by the Calgary Institute of Modern Art
2001 ArtCITY, Calgary Institute of Modern Art
2001 Peter Yeadon:
Home Abroad, Gallery 1.1.1, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2000 Home Abroad,
Sala 1 Gallery, Rome, Italy
2000 ARCHI/texture, Archive Inc. Gallery,
Toronto, Ontario
education
Dalhousie University Faculty of Architecture, Master of Architecture, 1989
Dalhousie University Faculty of Architecture, Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies, 1987
Dalhousie University Faculty of Engineering, Diploma of Engineering, 1987
selected awards
2004 Boston Society of Architects Award
2003 ID magazine Annual Design Awards, Honorable Mention
2003 RISD Faculty Development Grant
2001, 2000 Canada Council Travel Grant
1999-2000 Canada Council Prix de Rome
1995 Canadian Architect magazine Award of Excellence
1995 Boston Society of Architects Award
1992-93, 1990-91 Canada Council Arts B Award
1989 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal of Excellence
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