CATALOG RAISONNÉ
Edgar Papazian is an artist-architect who has practiced architecture with a license.
He believes architecture has the capacity to heal and protect by providing personal space for privacy and thought, free from reductive and restrictive social class roles.
The many drawings herein are meant to be considered research, autonomous from any built analogues and not simply instruments of service.
Edgar is a graduate of Columbia and Yale Universities and is professor at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA, where he teaches architectural studios at a college level. He was president of American Institute of Architecture - Peconic chapter in 2024.
This website serves as a location for current research and creative projects (SET-A), and also as a repository of digitised hand-drawn works created between 1993 and 2024 both as a student and as a pracitising architect (SET-B).
“...He apparently had no significant master and followed no specific architectural tradition. Like some other priest-architects from the major orders... he was first of all an intellectual - a mathematician and a philosopher - and for him architecture was a form of erudition.” -Richard Pommer (referring to the architect Guarino Guarini), Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont, 1961.