Columbia University, New York, N.Y

CLIFFORD PEARSON

2 Grove Street, #5A

New York, N.Y. 10014

(646) 853-0744 (mobile)

EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

M.A. Degree in Architectural History, 10/82

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

B.A. Degree in Urban Studies and Law, 1/78

EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Director of the American Academy in China, and Lecturer in the School of Architecture, 1/16 - present

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, Deputy Editor in Chief, 2/05 – 12/15.

Previously served as senior editor and associate

editor, 6/89-1/05

Responsible for planning and directing editorial content of the magazine, in conjunction with the editor in chief and two other deputy editors. Edit Record's Chinese edition. Write stories for various sections of the magazine.

ASIA DESIGN FORUM, Director, 6/2010 - present.

One of four directors of the nonprofit think tank, which

organizes events and generates dialogue among architects,

designers, artists, clients, and the general public.

VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE, Co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion, 9/04 and 9/06

Collaborated with Suzanne Stephens to curate the exhibitions Transcending Type in 2004 and After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground in 2006. Responsible for conceiving and developing the exhibitions, selecting architects to participate, hiring designers, working with the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, raising funds, and overseeing publicity.

BUILDER, Senior Editor, 1/88 -6/89

Responsible for writing features stories and editing the Design section

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EXPERIENCE

CORPORATE DESIGN AND REALTY, Associate Editor, 10/86 - 5/87

VIEW, Associate Editor, 4/85 -11/85

STAMFORD ADVOCATE and GREENWICH TIME,

Architecture Critic, 9/81 -9/86

METROPOLIS, Assistant Editor, 9/81 -7/82

CHAIN DRUG REVIEW, Staff Reporter, 3/79- 8/81

PUBLICATIONS

SHANGHAI: LABORATORY OR CANDY STORE FOR SKYSCRAPER DESIGN?

Essay for catalogue accompanying exhibition Highrise — Idea and Reality at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (August 2011 - January 2012)

GOOD DESIGN IN CHINA

Introduction for book published by Liaoning Science & Technology Publishing, 2010

10 IDEAS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD OR NOT

"Hey, Man, Where Did My City Go?," essay on architecture for a book published in Austria by Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte, 2007

INDONESIA: DESIGN AND CULTURE

Author of book published by the Monacelli Press, 1998

MODERN AMERICAN HOUSES: FOUR DECADES OF AWARD-WINNING DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

Author of introduction and editor of book published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996 and new edition in 2005

SCHOOL WAYS: THE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF AMERICA'S SCHOOLS

Editor of book published by McGraw-Hill and ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, 1993

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Articles for the Arts & Leisure, Home, Real Estate, and Connecticut sections, 1982 - 2002

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PUBLICATIONS

ART & ANTIQUES

Article on museum design, 11/93

THE WASHINGTON POST

Articles for the Weekend section, 1988 –1989

TRAVEL & LEISURE

Article on the architectural follies of England, 11/86

NEW YORK

Article on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 5/26/80

METROPOLIS

Articles on topics ranging from corporate architecture to zoning and historic preservation, 1981 –1987

CHELSEA-CLINTON NEWS

Occasional contributor, 1982 –1984

MACMILLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHITECTS

Biographies of Frei Otto and Paul Schultze-Naumburg

AWARDS/HONORS

MEDIA FELLOW, U.S.-JAPAN FOUNDATION

Two-month fellowship to research “Technology and Tradition in Japanese Architecture,” April-May 2003

AWARDS/HONORS

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

Award for “General Excellence” to Architectural Record for three issues, including “Architecture for Remembrance”

(July 2002), which I edited

Jesse H. Neal Awards

Numerous awards for articles in Architectural Record, given by the American Business Media association.