Bio
Richard Taransky, FAAR, is a nationally recognized architect, known for his balance of art and architecture. His unique drawings and models earned him the Rome Prize in Architecture in 2001. In 2005 he was an artist in resident at The Fabric Workshop & Museum, where he completed work on “Civil Settlement,” a silkscreened tablecloth which is both sold as a multiple in the Museum Shop and also housed in the FWM permanent collection. Taransky’s work has been exhibited and published widely including shows at the American Academy in Rome, The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, The Stephan Stuxs Gallery, FAARM Gallery, Lehigh University, and The Fabric Workshop & Museum.
Taransky attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and received a BArch from The Cooper Union, where his ground breaking thesis “A Library for the Blind” was published in Education of an Architect ed. Diller and Hejduk (Rizzoli, 1988). Metropolis magazine included Taransky in a Aug/Sept 2002 article about John Hejduk’s legacy.
Taransky is also invested in architectural education and has taught courses in design, drawing, and technology at The Cooper Union, llinois Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Architecture, and The University of the Arts. He was recently named a The John G. Williams Distinguished Professor at The University of Arkansas, where he taught in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Taransky has lectured at numerous universities including Boston University, where he led a seminar called “Translating Rome” as part of the University Professor’s Program, and a talk called “Devoured Sites” at The University of Penn. Graduate School of Architecture. Known as a distinguished critic and educator, Taransky continues to jury student work throughout the country.
Taransky has collaborated with poet Anselm Hollo, who teaches at Naropa University, on a broadside for Hollo’s 2005 reading at The Poetry Center of Chicago, and with his daughter Michelle Taransky, he coauthored a chapbook, “The Plans Caution” published Andrew Rippeon through QUEUE Books at The University of Buffalo Poetics Program.