Esther da Costa Meyer

Esther da Costa Meyer

Visiting Professor
Esther da Costa Meyer teaches modern architecture and contemporary architecture. A native of Brazil, she specializes in issues of cultural translation involving architecture focusing on buildings erected by colonial powers in the Global South, as well as the emerging cultures of resistance that were themselves highly hybrid, transnational, and diasporic. Interested in issues pertaining to gender and design, she has published on architects Lilly Reich, Charlotte Perriand, and Lina Bo Bardi. Her curatorial work includes the exhibition and catalogue Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider, co-curated with Fred Wasserman (The Jewish Museum, New York) and, more recently, an exhibition of the drawings of Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry: On Line (Princeton University Art Museum). Also interested in the historic avant-gardes in architecture, she has published a book on the Italian futurist Antonio Sant’Elia.
Education
Université de Genève
MA Yale University
PhD Yale University

Courses

3012
Fall 2023
Architecture and Modernity: Theories and Projects
Esther da Costa Meyer
3297b
Spring 2023
From Shigeru Ban to IKEA: Designing Refugee Camps
Esther da Costa Meyer
3297b
Spring 2022
From Shigeru Ban to IKEA: Designing Refugee Camps
Esther da Costa Meyer
3297b
Spring 2021
From Shigeru Ban to IKEA: Designing Refugee Camps
Esther da Costa Meyer
3292b
Spring 2020
Architectural History/Theory of the Anthropocene
Esther da Costa Meyer
3287b
Spring 2019
Havana’s Architecture: Recent Past and Possible Future
Esther da Costa Meyer