Alastair James Gordon
Host, Writer & Producer, Poetics of Place (Pop) Podcast Series @ElectraCast Media
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WORK HISTORY
Host, Writer & Producer, Poetics of Place (Pop) Podcast Series @ElectraCast Media
New York, CA
Host Alastair Gordon explores the healing impact of good design in an increasingly complex and troubled world. He conducts spirited, in-depth interviews with some of the leading figures in the world of design, art, architecture and environmental awareness. AG\'s responsibilities: research, write, interview guests as on-air host, produce, edit & help market a series of weekly podcasts aired on Spotify, Apple, Google, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Pandora and other major platforms.
EDUCATION
Hampshire College
Bachelor's degree
Yale University
Master of Fine Arts - MFA
Université Grenoble Alpes
Foreign Student Program
The Lawrenceville School
High School Diploma
SKILLS
ABOUT ALASTAIR JAMES GORDON
Gordon\'s eye for the convergence of art, architecture and commerce is unerring.\"-Publisher’s WeeklyAlastair Gordon is an award-winning critic, curator, artist, cultural historian and author. For more than twenty years, he wrote on art, architecture and the environment for the New York Times and in 2008 became Contributing Editor on design for WSJ, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, as well as launching and producing the popular “Wall-to-Wall” design blog on the Journal’s web site. Gordon’s essays have been published in many other publications including Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, Architectural Record, New York Observer, House & Garden and Dwell. From 2014 to 2019 he was the architecture/design critic for the Miami Herald, and in 2021 launched the Poetics of Place Podcast series on Spotify. In addition to his critical journalism, Gordon has published more than 30 books on art, architecture and environment, including such critically acclaimed titles as Weekend Utopia, Naked Airport, Spaced Out, Theater of Shopping, Arquitectonica, Romantic Modernist and Wandering Forms. In 2016, he launched “Poetics of Place,” a critical writing program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and has taught and lectured at many other institutions. Earlier in his career, Gordon was General Editor of The Princeton Papers on Architecture and served as the Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y. He has received numerous prizes for his critical writing and scholarship, including research fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and a special citation for ‘Excellence in Criticism’ from the American Institute of Architects. Alastair is Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Gordon de Vries Studio, an imprint that specializes in books about the human environment.
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