Alex Schweder, born 1970 in New York City, studied architecture at the University of Cambridge, the American Academy in Rome, at the Pratt Institute and at Princeton University in New York. He coined the term “Performance Architecture” in 2007 to encapsulate the understanding of architecture that it both gives cues for how we are to behave and offers itself as a prop for inhabitants to form and perform their identities. He explores the testing of spatial ideas not only by building them but also by performing them as well. His work along these lines has been exhibited and collected internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Britain, Performa 17, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and currently lives and works in New York City. In the 2019/20 season he conceived the architecture of the immersive installation Sensefactory which can be seen in Zeche Eins at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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