Nora Wendl in conversation with Maggie Grimason
Schedule
Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW Ste H, Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque, NM
Join us for a reading and signing with Nora Wendl for her latest book, “Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth.” Nora will be in conversation with Maggie Grimason.
The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice.
Nora Wendl is an is an essayist, artist, editor, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches both theory and studio courses. Steeped in feminist archival practices, Wendl crafts essays, books, installations, photographs, and films that offer new ways of understanding the world around us – the built and unbuilt environments. Wendl’s work has been supported by the Graham Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, and National Trust for Historic Preservation, among other institutions. She has exhibited and published widely, and her most recent book, Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press 2025), was shortlisted for the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education from 2021 – 2024.
Maggie Grimason is a writer and editor. Her arts writing has appeared in Playboy, Hyperallergic, New Mexico Magazine, and exhibition catalogs from Albuquerque to Berlin. Also a student of science, she has written for journals published by MIT and the Center for Biological Diversity. Excerpts from a book-in-progress on ghost hunting, grief, and memory have been published in Ploughshares.