Val Warke’s teaching and research focus has been on criticism and genre theory, including issues of fashion, formalism, populism, reception, and relations to literary theory, and in particular, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. He has been published in a number of journals, including Assemblage, A+U, Cornell Journal of Architecture, and the Harvard Design Magazine, as well as many essays and texts on the work of Morphosis. He teaches in the areas of design (architectural and urban) and architectural theory. He practices architecture with Andrea Simitch, as a partner in Simitch and Warke Architecture. In addition to the field of architecture, he is also a member of the graduate field of fiber science and apparel design.
Warke graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Architecture and Harvard University with a Master of Architecture.
Academic Research Areas
Architectural design
Architectural theory
Architectural and urban design
Theory and criticism
Books
100 Buildings: 1900–2000
Yi, Eui-Song, Thom Mayne, and Val Warke. 2017. New York: Rizzoli.
Forward: Women with Parrots
2017. In Clinical: An Architecture of Variation with Repetition. Edited by Maria Hurtado de Mendoza. New York: ActarD Inc.
The Language of Architecture: 26 Principles Every Architect Should Know
Simitch, Andrea, and Val Warke. 2014. Beverly: Rockport Press.
