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CURRENT POSITION
- Architecture Critic, The New Republic
- Co-editor, Positions: On Modern Architecture and Urbanism/ Histories and Theories
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An international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of scholarship in modern architecture and urbanism, co-founded and edited with Eric Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis) and Cor Wagenaar (Technical University in Delft).
Co-published by the University of Minnesota Press and Netherlands Architecture Institute Publications. Issue #0 will be available in February 2008, and Issue #1 in fall 2008.
- "Rethinking Modernism in Architecture"
- Conceptual and historical reworking of modernism in architecture, from its precursors and initial codification through its contemporary manifestations,which sees modernism as having been, and being, more complex, flexible, and plurified than it has been treated.
- "Constructing Modernism at MoMA in the 1930s"
- Investigation of MoMA's construction of a more inclusive modernism after "The International Style" exhibition of 1932.
- Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism. Yale University Press, 2001.
- Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. CCA and MIT Press, 2001. Edited with Réjean Legault.
- "Monumentality in the Pictorial Still"
- Forthcoming (winter 2008) in Anthony Vidler, ed., Architecture between Spectacle and Use, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with Yale University Press.
- "Ultraviolet: Alvar Aalto's Embodied Rationalism," Harvard Design Magazine, fall 2007.
- Also forthcoming in Alvar Aalto and America, edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler.
- "Something to Talk About: Modernism, Discourse, Style," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, summer 2005.
- "Showing Cities What Planning Can Accomplish: Techniques for the Production of Locality in Josep Luis Sert's Peabody Terrace," Harvard Design Magazine, fall 2005.
- Also published in Josep Luis Sert: Fifty Years of Architecture, eds. Miró Foundation and Josep Maria Rovira, spring 2005.
- "Critical Themes of Postwar Modernism" (with Legault) in Anxious Modernisms, edited by Goldhagen and Legault.
- "Freedom's Domiciles: Three Projects by Alison and Peter Smithson" in Anxious Modernisms, edited by Goldhagen and Legault.
- "Reconceptualizing the Modern" in Anxious Modernisms, edited by Goldhagen and Legault.
- "Introduction," Richard Neutra's Windshield House, ed. Dietrich Neumann, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Yale University Press, 2001.
- Philip Johnson Award for Best Exhibition Catalogue, Society of Architectural Historians, 2003.
- "David Geiger," "Georgia Dome," "Pontiac Silverdome," "Stadiums," and other articles on postwar American covered stadiums in Antoine Picon, ed., L'art de l'ingénieur: Constructeur, entrepeneur, inventeur. Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997.
- "Critiques of Liberal Individualism: Louis Kahn's Civic Projects, 1947-1957," Assemblage, December 1996.
- "Architectural Culture in the Fifties: Louis Kahn and the National Assembly Complex in Dhaka," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1993.
- "Detail and Abstraction: The Inevitable Task," in Detail: The Special Task, catalogue essay with contributions by Helen Searing, M. Christine Boyer, and Patricia Conway. A.I.R. Gallery, New York, 1984.
- Review of Mark Wigley, White Walls, Designer Dresses, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1997.
- Review of Michael J. Lewis and Eugene Johnson, Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1997.
- Review of Meredith Clausen, Pietro Belluschi, Modern American Architect, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1995.
- Review of Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, in GSD News, Fall 1995.
- Review of Lawrence J. Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity, in Design Book Review, Summer/Fall, 1993.
- Review of Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life, in Architectural Record, 1984.
- "Legacy-Builder: Bush's Architect is a Perfect Match for His Presidency," New Republic, September 2007.
- "American Collapse: Is it Already Too Late for America's Infrastructure?" New Republic, August 2007.
- "Project Runway: Only Skin and Bones," New Republic, February 2007.
- "Dorm Art: Campus Recreation Centers," (on student centers by Mack Scogin Merrell Elam in Wellesley and by Morphosis in Cincinnati), New Republic, November 13, 2006.
- "Extra-Large" (on Rem Koolhaas and OMA's architecture and urbanism), New Republic, July 31, 2006
- "For the Birds: Santiago Calatrava's Moment," New Republic, January 23, 2006.
- "The State of Architecture in America," Odessey, Chicago Public Radio, February 2005.
- "Public Eye," Q&A Interview conducted by Martin Pederson, Metropolis, August 2003.
- "Putting Some Pizzazz Back in the Skyline," New York Times (op-ed), February 15, 2003.
- "Our Degraded Public Realm: The Multiple Failures of Architectural Education," cover story, Chronicle Review (a weekly publication of the Chronicle of Higher Education), January 2003.
- "Kool Houses, Kold Cities," American Prospect, June 2002.
- "Boring Buildings: Why American Architecture is So Bad ?" American Prospect, December 2001.
- "Eternal Hero" (on Louis Kahn), World Architecture, October 2001.
- "Bringing the Mall Back Home," in Architectural Record, September 1985.
- Review of "The International Style in Israel: From Europe's Utopian Dreams to the Pragmatism of Palestine," in Architectural Record, 1985.
- "Reconceptualizing the Modern: Postwar Architectural Culture 1944-1968"
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Organized a three-stage initiative to reexamine the field of postwar architectural culture. In spring 1998, a public conference with twenty-four panelists and six respondents was held over two days at the Harvard Design School. In spring 1999, an intensive two-day follow-up workshop with eighteen participants was convened at Canadian Centre for Architecture. In 2001, Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture was published.
Sponsored by Harvard Design School, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
- "America's Infrastructure Crisis," School of Architecture Lecture series, Northeastern University, fall 2007.
- "Modernism and Embodied Rationalism," Boston University, Department of Art History, March 2007.
- "The Independent Group and its Legacy, Symposium on the Independent Group and its Legacy," organized by Anne Massey and Nigel Whiteley, Tate Britain, London, March 23-24, 2007.
- Dean's lecture series, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, March 2006.
- Dean's lecture series, School of Architecture, Rice University, March 2006.
- "William Jordy - A Commemorative Symposium," Department of Art and Art History, Brown University, March 2006.
- Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians, Southwest Chapter, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2005.
- Speaker, "Architecture between Spectacle and Use," symposium organized by Anthony Vidler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Spring 2005.
- "The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Modern Architectural History," Session Chair, Society of Architecture Historians, Annual Conference, Vancouver, 2005.
- Respondent, "Eero Saarinen, Formgiver of the American Century," School of Architecture, Yale University, March-April, 2005.
- "Constructing Modernism: The Exhibition Program at the Museum of Modern Art, 1933-1939," in "When Modern was Modern" conference, School of Architecture, Yale University, October 2004.
- Dean's Lecture Series, School of Architecture, SUNY Buffalo, March 2004.
- "Kahn and His World," at "Engaging Louis I. Kahn: A Legacy for the Future," symposium sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale University School of Architecture, January 2004.
- School of Architecture, Technical University, Delft, the Netherlands, December 2003.
- School of Architecture (AHO), Oslo University, Norway, November 2003.
- Halverson Lecture on American Architecture, Department of Art and Art History, Wellesley College, May 2003.
- "Monumentality in Postwar Architecture," in "Monuments to Be Reconsidered: The Raison d'Etre of the Modern Heritage" session, Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, 2003.
- Session on modern architecture (organized by David van Zanten), College of Art Association, annual conference, Seattle, WA, 1993.
- "Trends in Contemporary Architecture," Board of Trustees, Boston Museum of Science, 2003.
- Keynote speaker, New England/Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, 2002.
- Dean's Lecture series, School of Architecture, University of Toronto, 2002.
- Architecture Department Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Northeastern University, 2001.
- Session on modernism and post modernism in architecture (organized by David Brownlee), Modernist Studies Association, annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.
- Visiting Associate Professor, Wellesley College, 2006-2007.
- Lecturer in Architectural History, Harvard Design School, 1999-2006.
- Assistant Professor in Architectural History, Harvard Design School, 1995-1999.
- Assistant Professor in Architectural History, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1994-1995.
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural History, Department of Art, Vassar College, 1993-1994.
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural History, School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1991.
- Preceptor, Art Humanities (core curriculum), Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1988-1991.
- "Architectural Theory and Practice After 1960"; Seminar, Wellesley College, 2007.
- "Modern American Architecture and Urbanism"; Lecture, Wellesley College, 2006.
- "The Architecture and Urbanism of Louis Kahn"; Seminar, Wellesley College, 2006; Harvard University, 1996; University of Texas at Austin, 1995.
- "Modernism/Modernity"; Seminar, Harvard University, 2005.
- "The Dimensions of Modernism"; Lecture, Harvard University, 2002.
- "1927: A Moment in Modernism"; Lecture, Harvard University, 2004-2005.
- "Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Case Studies in Modern Architecture"; Lecture, Harvard University, 1995-2005 (team taught with K. Michael Hays 1995-2001).
- "Reconceptualizing the Modern" (previously entitled "The Dissolution of the Modern Movement and the Birth of Team 10"); Lecture, Harvard University, 1996-2001.
- "Methodologies of Architectural History"; Ph.D. Seminar, Harvard University, 1999 (co-taught with Alice Jarrard, Department of Art and Architectural History).
- "Ideologies of Theory: Architecture and Culture After World War II"; Seminar, Harvard University and University of Texas at Austin, 1994-1995.
- "Architecture of the Twentieth Century"; Lecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1994-1995.
- "Modern Architecture 1850-1930"; Lecture, Vassar College, 1993.
- "The Spread of Modernism, Modernist Critiques: Architecture 1930-1970"; Lecture, Vassar College, 1994.
- "Art and Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernism"; Lecture, Vassar College, 1993-1994 (team-taught by the Department of Art).
- Art Humanities (Monuments of Western Art and Architecture); Lecture/Seminar; Columbia University, 1988-1992.
- Member, Ph.D. Committee, Harvard University, 1999-2003.
- Advisor, Concentration in History and Theory, Master's in Design Studies, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1996-2004.
- Member, Committee on History and Theory in the Core Curriculum, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1995-2003.
- Member, M.Arch. I Admissions Committee, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1995-1999, 2004-2006.
- Co-founder and coordinator, Interdepartmental Faculty Colloquium in Architectural History and Theory, Harvard University, 1996-2004.
- Coordinator, Architecture Department Lecture Series, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1996-1998.
- Member, Committee for Philip Johnson Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2007.
- Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, MIT Press, and Yale University Press, 1995-present.
- Consultant, Kansas City Design Forum, Kansas City, Missouri, 2004.
- Consultant, Architect Selection Committee, Museum of Science, Boston, 2002.
- Consultant, Architect Selection Committee, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1999-2000.
- Ph.D. Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1995.
- Specialties: Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Contemporary Theory
- M.A. Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1987.
- B.A. Department of English and American Literature, Brown University, 1982.
- With Honors; Minor in Art History.
- College of Art Association
- Docomomo
- Modernist Studies Association
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Society of Architectural Historians
- Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter
