Richard Ingersoll

Richard Ingersoll was born near San Francisco in 1949 but has spent half of his life in Italy. He earned a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. From 1983 to 1998 he was the editor-in-chief of Design Book Review, and from 1986 to 1997 he taught at Rice University in Houston. He lives full-time in Tuscany, teaching at Syracuse University in Florence, and he has also taught at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, in Zürich; Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara, in Ferrari, Italy; Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain; and Peking University, in Beijing. Ingersoll was a frequent contributor for Architecture, the precursor of ARCHITECT, and he currently writes for Arquitectura Viva, Lotus, Il Giornale di Architettura, Bauwelt, World Architecture (Beijing), and C3 (Seoul).

Richard Ingersoll's Posts

Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems and Shiro Studio

by Richard Ingersoll

A new museum in Modena, Italy, exemplifies the paradoxically organic yet technical vision of the late Jan Kaplický of Future Systems.
Venice Biennale
To Like or To Love at the Venice Architecture Biennale

by Richard Ingersoll

Filtering the good from the bad, and more often the wonderful from the admirable, is the first order of business at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Venice Biennale
Chipperfield's "Common Ground" Ignores the Ground Plane

by Richard Ingersoll

But, Richard Ingersoll notes, several national pavilions thoughtfully addressed the concerns of the common people.
Venice Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale: Collections at the Arsenale

by Richard Ingersoll

David Chipperfield’s ‘Common Ground’ lacks singular protagonists. But with collections of the likes of Peter Märkli, Alberto Campo Baeza, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who needs heroes?
Venice Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale: Collections at the Arsenale

by Richard Ingersoll

David Chipperfield’s ‘Common Ground’ lacks singular protagonists. But with collections of the likes of Peter Märkli, Alberto Campo Baeza, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who needs heroes?