Aaron Betsky
Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was
Professor and Director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech
and, prior to that, President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of
art, architecture, and design, Mr. Betsky is the author of over twenty books on
those subjects. He writes a weekly blog, Beyond Buildings, for
architectmagazine.com. Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale
University, Mr. Betsky has served as the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum
(2006-2014) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2001-2006), as well as
Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(1995-2001). In 2008, he also directed the 11th Venice International Biennale of
Architecture. His latest books are The Monster Leviathan (2024), Don’t Build,
Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse (2024), Fifty Lessons from Frank Lloyd
Wright (2021), Making It Modern (2019) and Architecture Matters (2019).
