Annie Coggan is a designer, educator, and principal at Chairs + Buildings Studio, a multiscale design studio based in Brooklyn. She is a full-time associate professor at Pratt Institute School of Design. Coggan’s practice involves textiles, furniture, and drawings that create a haptic research agenda. She was awarded a Winterthur Museum Creator / Maker Fellowship (2018–19) and an artist in residence position at Domaine de Boisbuchet, France, in 2021. With A Public Space Books, she recently published The Book of Errors, a book of illustrated essays looking at the complicated preservation of three American historic houses through drawings and ephemera. She received her BA from Bennington College in Vermont and her Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

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Upcoming Exhibitions
BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell