Salomon Frausto the Head of Education at The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Design. He previously curated the public programs at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, where he developed the public events, exhibitions, online interactivity, and publications with the aim of further expanding and complementing the research pursued at the Institute for presentation to a global architecture audience. An advocate for improved and diverse architectural literacy, Salomon Frausto teaches, publishes and lectures internationally to sharpen awareness of the contemporary built environment. He graduated with degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. From 2001–2007 he coordinated the public and scholarly programs of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. He is coeditor, with Joan Ockman, of Architourism: Authentic, Exotic, Escapist, Spectacular published by Prestel in 2005. This volume of essays and projects by leading scholars, critics, artists, and architects explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination. Trained as an architect, he is the editor of the Berlage Institute's flagship publication Hunch.
