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).