Jordan H. Carver

Jordan H. Carver

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Jordan H. Carver is a writer, educator, and sometimes designer based in New York. His work investigates various combinations of space, law, political rhetoric, race, conservatism, media, tax havenry, and other political, economic, and spatial chicanery. Jordan is a co-author of America Recovered (Actar, 2019), a collaboration with photographer Chad Ress, photography historian Miriam Paeslack, and political theorist Bonnie Honig on the aesthetics of civic engagement. His book Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition (Urban Research), on secret prisons and the War on Terror, was published in 2018 and won an AIGA design award.

Jordan is the managing editor for Theory & Event, a founding editor of the Avery Review, and a core member of Who Builds Your Architecture? an advocacy group working to educate architects on the effects of globalization and labor. He was the 2014–2015 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo and is currently a Henry M. MacCracken Doctoral Fellow in American Studies at New York University.

Jordan edited Preservation is Overtaking Us by Rem Koolhaas and Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP Books, 2014) and with the Avery Review he co-edited And Now: Architecture Against a Developer Presidency and Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (both published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City). With Mabel O. Wilson Jordan has contributed chapters to The Architect as Worker (Bloomsbury, 2015) edited by Peggy Deamer and The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor (OR Books, 2015) edited by Andrew Ross. His essays have been published in Thresholds, ARPA Journal, PLAT, Pidgin, Volume, and Bracket, and his work exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, DESTE Foundation, Van Alen Institute, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

Jordan holds a degree in graphic design from Syracuse University and received both his Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) and Masters of Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (MS. CCCP) from Columbia University GSAPP. He was a 2013 NYSCA grant recipient and a 2015 MacDowell Colony fellow.

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Short Biography

Jordan H. Carver is a writer, educator, and designer based in New York. He is a co-author of America Recovered (Actar, 2019) and author of Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition (UR, 2018). Jordan is the managing editor of Theory & Event, founding editor of the Avery Review, and a core member of Who Builds Your Architecture? He is currently a Henry M. MacCracken Doctoral Fellow in American Studies at New York University where he works on architecture, boundaries, and the construction of racial sovereignty.

Selected Projects

Books (Author)

America Recovered, photographs of economic stimulus by Chad Ress with essays by Jordan H. Carver and Miriam Paeslack, and a Foreword by Bonnie Honig. Available from Actar.

Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition, a book on sovereignty, redaction, torture, secrecy, architecture, and other nefarious spatial practices during the so-called War on Terror. Available from UR (Urban Research).

Books (Editor)

And Now: Architecture Against a Developer Presidency edited by the Avery Review and published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

A Critical Field Guide, WBYA?’s guide to architecture, global logistics, and migrant labor published online.

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, was officially released at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Climates collects of over 70 contributions of contemporary thinking about architecture and the environment. It is the first full-length book from the Avery Review.

Avery Review: Chicago, The first print edition of the Avery Review launched at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Preservation is Overtaking Us, an edited book of Rem Koolhaas’ lectures on contemporary preservation practices, with a response by Jorge Otero-Pailos, published by GSAPP Books and launched at the Venice Biennale.

Collecting Architecture Territories, a catalog to the Greek exhibition of the same name and edited by Craig Buckley, Jordan Carver, and Mark Wasiuta published by GSAPP Books.

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