Disciplines: Architecture – writing

Clare Fentress

Disciplines: Architecture – writing
Region: New York, NY
Residencies: 2025

Clare Fentress is a designer and writer. Her work is concerned with the politics and poetics of architecture, labor, and caretaking space. She is a founding member of Acritarchy, a design collective based in New York, and an associate editor at n+1. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Avery Review, the New York Review of Architecture, and n+1 online, and her visual work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

At MacDowell, Fentress developed a book manuscript on visionary hospice space in the United States from the 1970s to the present. She focused on a chapter on San Francisco’s Zen Hospice Project Guest House (1990–2018).

Studios

Putnam

Clare Fentress worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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