CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct 28, 2002--The MIT Museum today announced the appointment of Gary Van Zante as Curator of Architecture and Design, according to Mary Leen, the Museum`s Acting Director. Van Zante will also oversee exhibitions in the School of Architecture and Planning`s Wolk Gallery beginning in January.
''We are pleased to have Van Zante join our staff'' Leen said. ''His two decades of curatorial and professional work in the field of architecture expands the Museum`s professional role in the Institute and in the broader museum and architectural community.''
''The MIT Museum`s architecture collection documents the country`s first academic program in architecture'' Van Zante noted, ''and is a significant resource for the history of architectural education and the development of the professional practice of architecture in America. This is an exciting time to be working with architectural collections at MIT, where there is a renewed institutional commitment to creating significant architecture and campus spaces, and an ongoing discussion about the role of design in the life of the community.''
Van Zante comes to the MIT Museum from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was curator for eight years of the Southeastern Architectural Archive, one of the largest architectural collections in the country. At Tulane, Van Zante organized many exhibitions, most recently Lost New Orleans: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal for Emperor Napoleon III, the subject also of a book by Van Zante to be published next year. He is currently collaborating with James O`Gorman of MIT and Wellesley College on the catalog Drawn From History: New Orleans Architectural Graphics.
Van Zante taught in the preservation program of the Tulane School of Architecture. He served as president of the Society of Architectural Historians Gulf South Chapter, and board member of the Society`s Southeast Chapter. Prior to his work at Tulane, Van Zante worked in architectural practice in Chicago, as writer and archivist for Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and as Director of Resources for architect Thomas Beeby, former Dean of Architecture at Yale University. He was also a curator of rare books, prints and photographs at the University of Chicago.
Founded in 1971, the MIT Museum`s mission is to document, interpret and communicate the activities, achievements and worldwide impact of MIT`s innovations to society at large.
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