ASHLEY SIMONE is an editor, writer, photographer, and educator based in New York City whose practice investigates the intersection of architecture, design, art, and culture, drawing on her training at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (M. Arch 2007). Her photography has been exhibited in New York and London, and her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals published by Actar, BOMB Magazine, Lars Müller Publishers, Oro Editions, and Thames and Hudson. Her essay “Value and the Metaphor of Phenomenology” appears in the anthology Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld, edited by Karla Britton and Robert McCarter (London: Thames and Hudson, 2020). “Different Ways to Be: A History of the Future of OODA,” her essay celebrating the Oporto-based architects OODA, will feature in a forthcoming volume edited by João Paulo Rapagão (Barcelona: Actar, 2021).
Among other volumes on architecture and urbanism, she is the editor of A Genealogy of Modern Architecture (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2015) and The Other Modern Movement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021) by Kenneth Frampton, Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design by Allan Wexler (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2017), Two Journeys by Michael Webb (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2018), Frank Gehry Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, 1954-1978 by Jean-Louis Cohen (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 2020), Occupation : Boundary, art, architecture, and culture at the water, by Cathy Simon with Carrie Eastman (Oro Editions, 2021), and she is a co-editor of In Search of African American Space (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2020).
Before founding EDITRIX, a curatorial and editorial consultancy, she worked for Bernard Tschumi Architects and managed construction projects with Ryan Associates. The Drawing Center in Soho, designed by WXY Architecture and Urban Design, is the last build project she helped to realize. Others include high-end residences in Manhattan and the BURST House *008, designed by Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Ashley is a professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, where she teaches courses on representation and trans-disciplinary research writing. As a faculty member at the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in Tucson, she teaches online courses in architectural history, visual culture, and exhibition theory. She has lectured at Kampala University School of Architecture, Uganda, and T-Space in Rhinebeck, New York, part of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation. Her work has been supported by grants from Pratt Institute and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She is currently a community member of NEW INC, the design and technology incubator at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York.
M.ARCH Columbia University, 2007
B.A. Economics, The College of William and Mary, 1999
