Fritz Haeg
FRITZ HAEG works between the urban ecology initiatives of Gardenlab,
including Edible Estates; the domestic social activities of Sundown
Salon and Sundown Schoolhouse; the designs and scores of Fritz Haeg
Studio, including occasional buildings and even parades (though his
currently preferred clients are animals); and other various
combinations of building, composting, cultivating, dancing, designing,
exhibiting, gardening, housekeeping, organizing, talking, teaching,
and writing. His home base since 2001 is a geodesic dome in the hills
of Los Angeles.
Haeg studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di
Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Rome
Prize fellow in residence at the American Academy in Rome from
2010-2011, a frequent MacDowell Colony Fellow, and nominated for
National Design Awards. He has variously taught in architecture,
design, and fine art programs at Princeton University (2012),
California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design,
Parsons School of Design, and the University of Southern California.
Haeg has produced and exhibited projects at Tate Modern; the Whitney
Museum; The Guggenheim Museum; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul; The Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casco
Office of Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Mass MoCA; the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wattis Institute; the Netherlands
Architecture Institute; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the MAK
Center; and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, among other
institutions. “The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive” (Evil Twin
Publications) was released in 2009, the expanded second edition of
“Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn” (Metropolis Books) in
2010, and "Roma Mangia Roma" will be released by Nero Publications in
2011.