Stacen Berg has been with Hauser & Wirth since 2011. She was instrumental in securing, launching, and now overseeing the Los Angeles gallery. Prior to working with Hauser & Wirth, Berg was assistant curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where she worked on an extensive two-year exhibition titled Low Life Slow Life with renowned Los Angeles–based artist, Paul McCarthy. She also previously worked at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Berg holds a BA in art history from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an MFA in critical writing from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
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Éric Lapierre is an architect and architectural theoretician. He is the founder and principal of Éric Lapierre Experience (ELEx), his Parisbased organization that coordinates his activities both as builder and as writer. ELEx buildings are recognized on a national and international level through many awards and publications. They aim at keeping architecture as a sophisticated cultural medium in the contemporary ordinary condition. Lapierre teaches design and theory of architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée Paris Est and the EPFL, and has been guest teacher at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Université de Montréal (UdM), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and KU Leuven in Ghent. Among other books, Lapierre has edited Identification d’une ville: Architectures de Paris (2002), Guide d’architecture de Paris 1900– 2008 (2008), Le Point du Jour, une architecture concrète (2011), and Architecture of the Real: Contemporary Architecture in France (2004).