Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Los Angeles News
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Silvia Perea, Southern Californian, USA
Dec 5, 2018
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
New Curator at Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
The Art, Architecture & Design Museum, UC Santa Barbara, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Silvia Perea as the next curator of the Art and Design Collection at the Museum.
Dr. Perea begins her tenure at the Museum on January 14, 2019. She holds a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and is currently a curator at the Baker Museum, Naples, Florida. In addition, she has completed post graduate degree work at Columbia and Harvard. In the last few years Dr. Perea has curated dozens of exhibitions, as well contributed to a major international exhibition on Alfred Loos. Her dissertation focused on the Case Study House program and its influence on Brazilian architecture. In addition, she has contributed many essays to leading architecture journals, as well as authoring numerous exhibition publications.
Dr. Perea?s international experience will allow for the interpretation of the collection (and by extension, the history of Southern California architecture and design) within the context of Latin American and European modern and contemporary architecture. This relationship has been implicit within the ADC?s collections, beginning with the devel...