Clare Fentress


Disciplines: Architecture – writing
Disciplines: Architecture – writing
Based in New York, NY
Residencies: 2025
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Clare Fentress is a designer and writer whose work is concerned with the politics and poetics of architecture, labor, and caretaking space. She is a project manager at Davies Toews Architecture; 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 caretaking space and radical health movements from the 1940s to the present.

Studios

Putnam

Clare Fentress worked in the Putnam studio.

Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…

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