Fritz Haeg works between his architecture and design practice Fritz Haeg Studio (though the currently preferred clients are animals), the happenings and gatherings of Sundown Salon (now schoolhouse), the ecology initiatives of Gardenlab (including Edible Estates), and other various combinations of building, designing, gardening, exhibiting, dancing, organizing and talking. His new on-going series of projects for 2008, Animal Estates, debuted at the Whitney Biennial with commissioned performances and installations in front of the museum. It is followed by six other editions in 2008, commissioned by museums and art institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His first book, "Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn", was published by Metropolis Books and distributed by D.A.P. in spring 2008. "The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive" will be released in summer 2009 by Evil Twin Publications. Haeg has produced projects and exhibited work at Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casco Office of Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Mass MoCA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the MAK Center, Los Angeles, among other institutions. He studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his B. Arch. He has variously taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at CalArts, Art Center College of Design, Parsons, and the University of Southern California. In 2006 he initiated Sundown Schoolhouse, the self-organized educational environment originally based in his geodesic dome in Los Angeles.Selected profiles and features: New York Times - Topic webpage: Fritz Haeg ; T Magazine A Fertile Imagination by Susan Morgan, 2008; Art and Life, Steeping in a Teapot by David Coleman, 2008; Spanish-Modern Mashup in Los Angeles by Michael Cannell, 2008; Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard, by Patricia Leigh Brown, 2006 / Financial Times - Turf Wars by Simon Busch, 2008; NPR - Day to Day feature: Architect creates Estates for Wild Creatures, 2008 / Here & Now on WBUR , Edible Estates, 2007; Studio 360 feature - Edible Estates, 2008 / The Independant - The urban farmer: One man's crusade to plough up the inner city by Kate Burt, 2008 / Frieze Magazine - Edible Estates by Bradley Horn; Anyone Home? by James Trainor, 2006 / BBC Radio - Animal Estates in the Manhattan Wilderness, 2008 / Dwell Magazine - Emerging Designer: Fritz Haeg, video feature, 2008; The Lawn Goodbye by Arnie Cooper, 2007 / Men's Vogue - Greener than Grass by Tim McKeough, 2008; KCET - Sustaining L.A., 2008 / Creative Time - Interview with Nato Thompson, 2007 / Archinect - Fritz Haeg : Small Revolutions by Amy Seek, 2007 / Treehugger - Edible Estates video, 2006 / ABC World News Tonight - Front Lawns Uprooted for Greener Pastures, 2006 / index magazine - Can a Young L.A. Architect Change the World? by Ariana Speyer, 2004.
