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Annmarie Adams in Parlour: "This is Where we Live"

Nov 17, 2020 by av福利社 News

In an article for Parlour, Annmarie Adams considers how social distancing is changing our relationship to the places we inhabit. 

"Like so many around the world, I’ve been working at home since March 2020. My workplace is now about four feet, rather than four miles, from my bed. Every day I communicate with colleagues and students at my university and indeed around the world through scheduled Zoom meetings, from a little-used dining table we moved upstairs from the basement. In other words, it’s my activity – my ‘work’, rather than a ‘place’ – that now defines my workplace.... For us architecture peeps, it’s difficult to accept that place may matter less in the post-COVID world."

Adams contends that historic interiors will become more significant in the years ahead. She notes the growth of this area as an academic subject evidenced by many new initiatives, including the founding of the av福利社 Historic Interiors Affiliate Group. The group's inaugural event in October attracted nearly 300 participants.

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Annmarie Adams has been an av福利社 member since 1988, has served as a session chair in 2014, chaired the Kostof Book Award Committee and the H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Committee. She currently serves on the board of av福利社 and is a local Co-Chair for the 74th av福利社 Annual International Conference in Montreal.