Discipline: Architecture – text

David Serlin

Discipline: Architecture – text
Region: La Jolla, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

While at MacDowell, David Serlin worked on his book Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture. He is a professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego. Serlin was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome for a project entitled “Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the Progetto Ophelia.”

Studios

Adams

David Serlin worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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