Ned Cramer

The Great Leap Backward
Editor-in-chief of Architect, Architectural Lighting, and the Architect Product Spec Guide
Hanley Wood Company

Monday, November 17, 2008
6:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

PSA Dewberry Lecture

Ned Cramer is editor-in-chief of architect, architectural lighting, and the architect product spec guide. These three award-winning magazines are published by Hanley Wood, a Washington, D.C.–based business media company.
Prior to joining Hanley Wood, Mr. Cramer served as the first fulltime curator of the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF). During his four-year tenure there, Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin commended Cramer for bringing “intellectual heft” to CAF’s exhibitions and public programs, and the initiatives under his direction received support from organizations such as Altria, the Boeing Corporation, Fannie Mae, the Graham Foundation, Sara Lee, the McCormick-Tribune Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Mr. Cramer’s byline has appeared on some 100 print articles, many dating from his eight years at Architecture magazine, the predecessor to architect. He started at Architecture in 1995 as an assistant editor and rose to the position of executive editor before his departure in 2002. Mr. Cramer has also worked at the National Building Museum and the Menil Collection. He received an Arts Administration Fellowship from the NEA in 1995, to serve on the staff of the endowment’s Design Program.
Mr. Cramer is a trustee of Archeworks, the Chicago–based alternative design school. He has served as a juror on numerous professional design competitions and student reviews, and he speaks regularly on architecture and related subjects, at venues such as the New York Center for Architecture, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Field Museum of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the Rice University School of Architecture, where he also did graduate work in art and architecture history. Mr. Cramer was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.