C.F. Yetmen

Canan Yetmen began her career as an Editorial Assistant in the English department of Prestel Books in Munich, Germany, where she worked with editors and authors to facilitate publication of exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She then worked as a freelance German translator and book researcher focusing on art history and architecture texts. While at Prestel and as a freelancer she worked on titles including Kandinsky, Watercolors and Drawings, edited by Vivian Barnett and Armin Zweite; Clyfford Still, edited by Thomas Kellein; and Architecture in Transition, edited by Peter Noever. She also completed bibliographical research for Keith Haring, edited by Germano Celant; and Josef Hoffman Designs, edited by Peter Noever; she was credited as a translator on Christo: The Reichstag and Urban Projects, edited by Jacob Baal-Teshuva. Between 1994 and 2001 Canan was Associate Publisher and Publisher of Texas Architect magazine; she directed marketing and business management of the magazine as well as public outreach and communications efforts for the 5,000-member Texas Society of Architects (TSA). She was also responsible for the statewide TSA Design Awards program and TSA convention communications. Her first book, The Owner’s Dilemma: Driving Success and Innovation in the Design and Construction Industry co-written with Barbara White Bryson, was published by Ostberg Design Library in August 2010. The Roses Underneath is her first novel. Canan received her Bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in German from the University of Texas. She has given presentations on architectural communications to the Texas Society of Architects Convention; AIA chapters in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Albuquerque; and the Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Building Communities Conference. Her writing appears regularly in Texas Architect and Interiors Texas magazines and has been included in SMPS Marketer, Austin Home and Tribeza. She lives in Austin with her husband and daughter.