Discipline: Architecture – design

Aleksandr Mergold

Discipline: Architecture – design
Region: Ithaca, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Aleksandr Mergold worked on drawings and catalogue text for an exhibition to be mounted in Detroit Center for Design + Technology and for installation Oculi on Governors Island in NYC, both in the summer of 2018. The drawings are part of the series of his work exploring contemporary spolia, another way to consider the legacy of 20th century American industrialization. Aleksandr is a recipient of NY Architectural League Prize.

Studios

New Hampshire

Aleksandr Mergold worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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