Writings in design history and theory
Evelyn Meynard is an independent researcher working on revisiting the histories of design and architecture, and focusing on underrepresented or overlooked cultural and critical perspectives. Her particular interest in writing her chronicles in English with translations into other languages, especially Spanish, is to offer research works that can be accessible to international audiences and thus open the possibility for these stories to be integrated into more global histories, when the topics warrant it. Evelyn Meynard's main interests in the field of material culture include, among others, architecture, sustainability, and design theory.
Evelyn Meynard holds a master's degree in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Parsons School of Design and a master's degree in Design Research, Writing, and Criticism from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
She recently released a book on the life and work of Chilean architect Emilio Duhart, "Reimagining Modern Architecture: Emilio Duhart, 1940-1970," which was published in May 2025 by ACTAR Publishers from Barcelona in English and Spanish versions.
She was interviewed by Douglas Stuart McDaniel for Episode 9 of CITIZEN ONE, for a podcast titled Memory, Stone, and Silence: Reimagining Emilio Duhart's Latin American Modernism.
Her second book on the prominent Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu (born in 1963) will be published by ACTAR Publishers in the fall of 2025. In November 2023 she published an essay titled "For Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture is the 'Art of Survival.'" In METROPOLIS Magazine.
Meynard has lectured at Finis Terrae University in September 2023 ("Urban Design for Life"); Adolfo Ibáñez University Design Lab in May 2024 ("Towards a New Climate Urbanism"); at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in June 2024 ("Emilio Duhart: Modernism in the Land of the Ocean, 1940-1970."); at the University of Chile, FAU, June 2024 ("Emilio Duhart: Modernism in the Land of the Ocean, 1940-1970."); and at the University of Chile, FAU, June 2024 ("Towards a New Climate Urbanism"). She was a member of the editorial board of Revistade Arquitectura, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile, from 2022 to 2023. Two grants from FONDART (Fondo de Desarrollo Nacional Cultural y las Artes) supported her research work in 2023 and 2025.