SoA faculty member Enrique Ramirez recently published work in three recent journals and books. “Cold Case,” featured in the September/October issue of the Los Angeles Review of Architecture, is the prologue to his upcoming book Aspect Ratio Matinee Idol (Park Books), an experimental biography of Craig Ellwood’s Case Study House #16, written as a noir detective novel.
Ramirez also contributed an essay called “Yellowjacket” to The Architect and the Animal, edited by Kostas Tsiambaos and published by MIT Press in December. As part of an “abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture,” Ramirez delves into the architectural significance of yellowjackets and other flying insects in 20th century architecture and visual culture. And for the December issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, he wrote a review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph.
Ramirez teaches history and theory in the SoA’s Undergraduate Architecture program.