Talia A. Perry

1-908-642-2279 [email protected] See also: andrew.cmu.edu/user/taperry

Working Methods

I think some things, design some things, and make some things, currently in the gloriously post-industrial Pittsburgh, PA.

My most recent investigations seek to solicit instances of threshold, spaces between spaces and concepts between concepts: I revel in their awkward moments of transition and metamorphisis, in charting limits and testing their elasticity.

I have been trained as an architect and as a writer, parallel milieus that allow me to speculate about the world around us. I sometimes use fiction as a way to critique reality, or a way to exist within it.

If you don’t give me a challenge, I will find one myself.

Academic Achievements

CFA Dean’s List; Commendation Carnegie Mellon U., School of Architecture (B.Arch), class of 2013 from Head of School

18 wk. intensive reading seminar Independent Study, “Metafiction & Autonomous Architecture,” F2012 with advisor Charles Rosenblum

National Honor Society; Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School, class of 2008 Italian Honor Society teaching assistantships

Courses include first and second Architecture studios and history courses – 05.2011 through 05.2013 year studios and history elec- tives (modern architecture under the direction of Professor Kai Gutschow and a survey of architectural Carnegie Mellon U. School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA theory); web design for student resources / documentation; critiques, workshops; feedback on course content / structure Employment Experience Publications / editorial

3d modeling and digital Freelance architectural representation – 01.2013 through 02.2013 short-length coverage of “Observations on Interactivity,” Log: F2010 rendering, with MoMA’s PS1 YAP Zachary Weimer Bucco Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA interviews, editing, managing Co-founder and editor of SoArch’s Interpunct: F2010 through S2013 Private English tutor – 07.2012 through 12.2012 staff and design decisions Various individuals, various locations interviews, transcribing, copy Documentation / editorial for CMU’s Wats:ON publication: S2010 editing, early layout design

reuse and redesign: stripmall Architectural intern – 05.2011 through 08.2011 full-length article about studio “The Poetics of Reality,” AIA Pittsburgh’s COLUMNS: S2010 masterplan, working and pedagogy at CMU’s SoArch presentation drawings USA Architects, Somerville, NJ interviewee for magazine about Participant in PROCESS magazine, with Casey Gollan: S2009 young artists and students simple, clean web design for Web design – 12.2010 through 05.2011 a local architecture firm, with Drake Studio, Pittsburgh, PA editorial work, writing op-ed Editor-in-Chief of BRHS’s The Prowler: F2006 through S2008 Matthew Huber pieces, managing staff

for Log and the Writing Editorial intern – 05.2010 through 08.2010 layout, image acquisition and Art Editor for The Prowler: F2005 through S2006 Architecture series Anyone Corporation, New York, NY editing, some copyediting

digital drafting work and Architectural Intern – 07.2007 through 07.2008 extracurricular administrative tasks, Architecture Plus, Raritan, NJ primarily residential week-long intensive research Student Rep. on short research trip to Los Angeles, CA: S2012 program on Rudolph Schindler won many informal sleeve- Part-time sales clerk – 11.2006 through 06.2007 scrunching and jean-folding American Eagle Outfitters, Bridgewater, NJ reviewing applications and Student Rep. during SoArch’s Tenure Faculty Search: S2012 races against coworkers assembling a student response

providing flexible design Web design and branding – 04.2006 through the present panel of student presentations Presentation of project and essay “Concentrated Distraction” at infrastructure for an emerging Body Alliance Pilates Studio, Bedminster, NJ crossing between the disciplines Anthropology and Art Panel: S2012 business of anthropology and art

conveying questions, concerns, Student Advisory Council for SoArch: F2009 through S2013 Awards / Honors suggestions to Head of the School leading tours; reviewing digital Admissions volunteer for SoArch: F2008 through S2013 portfolios of prospective students “Conflicted Expressions Luther S. Lashmit Traveling Award – S2011, presentation TBA of Modernity: Exploring Volunteer counselor for BRHS Peer Mediation: F2005 through 2008 Narratives” - $5000 Fourth Year Design Awards Finalist, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture – nominated for various awards S2011 Participant in American-English Exchange Program: 2007

“Dance & Dynamic Modernity: Gindroz Prize for Travel – F2011, presentation F2012 Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity: 2006 Vienna, Paris, Dresden” - $7500

“Confabulating with the Coffee Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Book Prize – F2011 Ballet and Modern Dance at Gotta Dance and NJ School of Ballet Grounds of Reality: (various performances): 1997 through 2008 The Rhetoric of Adolf Loos” Finalist, Epic Metals Steel Deck Competition, with Becky Cole: S2010