ASHLEY SIMONE is an editor, writer, photographer, and educator based in New York City. Her photography has been exhibited in New York and London and her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals published by Actar, BOMB Magazine, Lars Müller Publishers, Oro Editions, and Thames and Hudson. Among other volumes on architecture and urbanism, she is the editor of A Genealogy of Modern Architecture (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2015) and The Other Modern Movement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021) by Kenneth Frampton, Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design by Allan Wexler (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2017), Two Journeys by Michael Webb (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2018), Frank Gehry Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, 1954-1978 by Jean-Louis Cohen (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 2020), Occupation : Boundary, art, architecture, and culture at the water, by Cathy Simon with Carrie Eastman (Oro Editions, 2021), and she is a co-editor of In Search of African American Space (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2020).
Before founding EDITRIX, Ashley worked for Bernard Tschumi Architects and managed construction projects with Ryan Associates. The Drawing Center in Soho, designed by WXY Architecture and Urban Design, is the last build project she helped to realize. Others include high-end residences in Manhattan and the BURST House *008, designed by Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Ashley is a professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, where she teaches courses on representation and transdisciplinary writing. As a faculty member at the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in Tucson, she teaches courses on architectural history, visual culture, architectural publications, and exhibition theory online. She has lectured at Kampala University School of Architecture, Uganda, and T-Space in Rhinebeck, New York, part of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation. Her work has been supported by grants from Pratt Institute and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She is currently a community member of NEW INC, the design and technology incubator at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York.
a niche publication practice that operates at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. Recognizing that media is a conduit for culture, EDITRIX: elevates the content of books, exhibitions, and communications to ensure their impact on contemporary discourse.
CARRIE EASTMAN is a writer and editor, designer, and educator who is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Occupation : Boundary, art, architecture, and culture at the water (ORO Editions, 2021), which explores the social, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the rise and fall of the urban waterfront. She is a co-editor of In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020), a volume of essays in which African American spatial typologies are reconsidered. Carrie has taught courses in urban history and theory at the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in Tucson; her writing has appeared in that institution’s annual journal on contemporary themes in architecture.
Carrie practices landscape architecture independently after having spent fifteen years working in and around New York City. During this time, she contributed to large-scale public projects such as the Scenic Hudson RiverWalk Park in Tarrytown, New York, where upland meadows and productive wetlands were established on the site of a former asphalt plant; and early phases of the Marcha P. Johnson State Park, an important, publicly accessible, open space along the formerly industrial Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront. Smaller projects for private clients include the design of meadow and moss gardens in rooftop spaces for the Etsy Headquarters and plant design for a terrace space at the Fumihiko Maki 4 World Trade Center building.
CARRIE EASTMAN is a writer and editor, designer, and educator who is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Occupation : Boundary, Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water (ORO Editions, 2021), which explores the social, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the rise and fall of the urban waterfront. She is a co-editor of In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020), a volume of essays in which African American spatial typologies are reconsidered. Carrie has taught courses in urban history and theory at the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in Tucson; her writing has appeared in that institution’s annual journal on contemporary themes in architecture.
Carrie practices landscape architecture independently after having spent fifteen years working in and around New York City. During this time, she contributed to large-scale public projects such as the Scenic Hudson RiverWalk Park in Tarrytown, New York, where upland meadows and productive wetlands were established on the site of a former asphalt plant; and early phases of the Marcha P. Johnson State Park, an important, publicly accessible, open space along the formerly industrial Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront. Smaller projects for private clients include the design of meadow and moss gardens in rooftop spaces for the Etsy Headquarters and plant design for a terrace space at the Fumihiko Maki 4 World Trade Center building.