Peter Macapia (cv): native of Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest, lives and works in Brooklyn New York. Represented by Gallery Priveekollektie.

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Peter Macapia is an artist, architect and philosopher whose work explores geopolitics and space.  He has taught at Columbia University, The New School for Social Research/Parsons, The Southern California School of Architecture, and Pratt Institute, as well as internationally in Paris, Delft, and Tokyo.  He is a visiting critic at Columbia and Yale and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Presidential Fellowship from Columbia University where he received his PhD.  He is currently working on the origin of witness in ancient Greek law, the concept of force in political philosophy since the 19^th century, and the problem of justice in the work of Michel Foucault for which he held seminars at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch.  Currently he teaches advanced architectural design and political philosophy at Pratt Institute.  His housing studio, The Spatial Logic of Public Housing, and his Architectures of Abolition focus on questions of space and social and racial justice and equity.  His seminars Power and Space and Critical Discourses on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Space focus on relations between knowledge production, spatialization, and their coordination relative to different forms of power relation.