| Education |
| 1978 |
Yale University, Ph.D. (History of Architecture) |
| 1974 |
Yale University, M.A. (History of Architecture) |
| 1972 |
University of York, England, B.A. Hons. (English) |
| 1965-69 |
Ecole d'Humanité, Goldern, Switzerland |
| Academic Positions |
| 2008- |
Director of Master in Architecture Degree Programs, Department of Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
| 2004- |
Adjunct Professor of Architectural
History, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate
School of Design |
| 2000-03 |
Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Harvard University,
Graduate School of Design |
| 2003 |
Lecturer, Princeton University,
School of Architecture |
| 2000 |
Lecturer, Yale University,
School of Architecture |
| 1995 |
Robert Sterling Clark Visiting
Professor of Art History, Williams College, Graduate Program
in the History of Art |
| 1990, 1994 |
Lecturer, Harvard University,
Graduate School of Design, Department of Urban Design (1994)
Department of Architecture (1990) |
| Museum Appointments |
| 1984-2001 |
Curator of Exhibitions and
Publications (Adjunct, 1990-2001)
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Head, Department
of Exhibitions and Publications,1984-1990 |
| 1978 |
Arcade Gallery, London, England, Assistant to Dr. Paul Wengraf |
| Publications |
| Books and Edited Volumes |
2009
forthcoming |
Architecture in the Time of the Vietnam War: Protest, Politics and Pedagogy. Yale University Press [edited volume] |
| 2007 |
Project Zagreb: Transition
as Condition, Strategy, Practice, (with Ivan Rupnik),
Barcelona and NY: Actar |
| 2003 |
Urban Form. Städtebau in der postfordistischen
Gesellschaft. Co-editor (with Renate Banik-Schweitzer).
Vienna: Löcker Verlag |
| 2001 |
Architecture or Revolution: Charles Moore and Yale in
the late 1960s, Exhibition Catalogue, Yale University
School of Architecture |
| 1999 |
The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934, The
MIT Press. |
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Awards: |
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2001
2000
2000 |
Alice Davis Hitchcock
Award,
Austrian Cultural Institute Prize
Spiro Kostof Award, Society of Architectural Historians |
| 1999 |
Shaping the Great City:
Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937, co-editor (with Monika Platzer). Prestel Verlag |
| 1999 |
Mythos Grossstadt. Architektur und Stadtbaukunst in
Zentraleuropa 1890-1937, co-editor (with Monika Platzer). Prestel Verlag. [German ed.] |
| 2000 |
L’Idée de la grande ville: L’architecture
moderne d’europe centrale, 1890-1937, co-editor (with Monika Platzer). Prestel Verlag. [French ed] |
| 1999 |
Architectural History 1999/2000: A Special Issue of
JSAH. Editor. Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians, vol. 58, no. 3 (September 1999). A special
double issue on the discipline of architectural history at
the turn of the century/millennium. |
| 1997 |
Architecture and Cubism, co-editor (with Nancy J.
Troy). The MIT Press |
| 1989 |
Architecture and Its Image: Four Centuries of Architectural
Representation, Eve Blau and Edward Kaufman, editors.
Canadian Centre for Architecture |
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Awards: |
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1991
1990 |
Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award, SAH
AIA Citation for Excellence, International Architectural Book Publishing |
| 1989 |
L'architecture et son image: Quatre siècles de
représentation architecturale, co-editor (with Edward
Kaufman). CCA/Editions du Méridien, [French
ed.] |
| 1982 |
Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward,
1845-1861. Princeton: Princeton University Press |
| Articles, Essays, Reviews |
| 2008 |
“Tensions in Transparency: The Dialectical Logic of SANAA’s Architecture,”
Harvard Design Magazine, Summer/Fall 2008 |
| 2008 |
“Supranational Principle as Urban Model: Otto Wagner’s Großstadt and City Making in Central Europe’ in Histoire de l’art du XIXe siècle (1848-1914), bilans et perspectives (colloque, Paris, 2007), Paris. |
| 2008 |
“L’Architecture et l’urbanisme des villes d’Europe central durant la première
moitié du XXe siècle,” Perspective 2008-3 [Paris 9/08] |
| 2008 |
“The Multiple Logics of the 21st Century Urban Campus: Some Thoughts on the
Relevance of American Models and Experience,” Covijek i Prostor (Man in Space), Zagreb (September 2008) : 57-61; 71-73. |
| 2007 |
“Transparency and the Irreconcilable
Contradictions of Modernity,” PRAXIS 9 (2007): 50-59. |
| 2007 |
“Limites territoriales/Spatial Boundaries,” Repenser les limites:
l’architecture à travers l’espace, le temps et les disciplines / Changing Boundaries: Architectural History in Transition, Paris: Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art |
| 2006 |
“Architecture and Isotype: The Modern Projects of Otto Neurath and Josef
Frank,” Culture and Politics in Red Vienna: Austrian Studies 14 (2006): 227-259. |
| 2005 |
“Going Public with the Built Environment: Response,” in
Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/builtenv/papers.html] |
| 2005 |
"Review of Christopher Long: Josef
Frank: Life and Work." Austrian
History Yearbook, vol.
XXVI, 227-229. |
| 2003 |
“Die polyzentrische Metropole: Otto Wagner’s
‘Grossstadt’ Revisited” in Renate Banik-Schweitzer
and Eve Blau, editors. Urban Form. Städtebau in der
postfordistischen Gesellschaft. Vienna: Löcker Verlag. |
| 2003 |
“A Question of Discipline,” Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians, 62/1 (March 2003):
125-129. |
| 2001 |
“Die Kodifizierung von Identität und Differenz.
Otto Wagners Grossstadt als Form und Idee,” in Moritz
Csáky and Peter Stachel, editors, Die Verortung
von Gedächtnis. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, pp. 9-43. |
| 1999-2000 |
“The City as Protagonist: Architecture and the Cultures
of Central Europe,” in Shaping the Great City: Modern
Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937. PrestelVerlag,1999,
pp.11-24. Translated in Mythos Grossstadt. Architektur
und Stadtbaukunst in Zentraleuropa 1890-1937. Prestel
Verlag, 1999, pp.10-23; L’Idée de la grande
ville: L’architecture moderne d’europe centrale,
1890-1937. Prestel Verlag, 2000, 11-24 |
| 1999-2000 |
“Grossstadt and
Proletariat in ‘Red
Vienna’, The Social Democratic City” in Shaping
the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937.
Prestel Verlag, 1999, pp. 205-214. Translated in Mythos
Grossstadt. Architektur und Stadtbaukunst in Zentraleuropa
1890-1937. Prestel Verlag, 1999, pp. 205-214; L’Idée
de la grande ville: L’architecture moderne d’europe
centrale, 1890-1937. Prestel Verlag, 2000, pp.
205-214 |
| 1999 |
“Vhlavní roli mesto: architektura a stredoevropské
kultury” in Zrození metropole: Moderní
architektura a mesto ve strední Evrope 1890-1937.
Rostislav Svácha, editor. Prague: vystavní sály
Obecního domu, pp. 6-21. |
| 1999 |
“Grossstadt a proletariát v ‘Rudé
Vídni’,” in Zrození metropole:
Mederní architektura a mesto ve strední Evrope
1890-1937. Prague: vystavníí sály
Obecního domu, pp. 83-87. |
| 1999 |
“Vhlavní roli mesto: architektura a stredoevropské
kultury,” ARCHITEKT (December, 1999) |
| 1999 |
“Architectural History 1999/2000: A
Special Issue of JSAH,” Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians, vol., 58, no. 3
(September 1999): 278-280 |
| 1998 |
“Reviewing Architectural Exhibitions: Exhibiting Ideas,”
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
vol., 57, no.3 (September 1998): 256, 366. |
| 1997 |
"Representing Architectural History," Journal
of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 56,
no. 2 (June 1997): 144-145. |
| 1997 |
“Introduction,” (with Nancy J. Troy),
Architecture and Cubism, Eve Blau and Nancy J. Troy,
editors. The MIT Press, 1997, pp.1-16. |
| 1994 |
Selected entries in The
Dictionary of Art, 30 volumes.
London: Macmillan Publishing Ltd., 1994 |
| 1989 |
"Patterns of Fact: Photography and the Transformation
of the Early Industrial City," Architecture and Its
Image: Four Centuries of Architectural Representation.
Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1989, pp. 36-57; Translated
in L’architecture et son image: Quatre siècles
de représentation architecturale. CCA/Editions
du Méridien, 1989, pp. 38-60. |
| 1983 |
"Technologia/Design - Eaton Center, Toronto,"
L'architettura - cronache e storia, No.4, April 1983,
pp. 314-316 |
| 1982 |
Wesleyan Photographs: Philip Trager. Wesleyan University
Press, 1982. (with Paul Horgan, Vincent Scully, Samuel Green,
William Kerr, Nancy Campbell). |
| 1982 |
Selected entries in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects.
4 volumes. Adolf K. Placzek, editor. New York: The Free Press |
| 1979 |
"The Earliest Work of Deane and Woodward,"
Architectura 2/1979, pp. 170-191. |
| 1974 |
Selected entries in Seven Realists. Alan Shestack,
editor. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, pp. 16-18,
28-30 |
| Exhibitions Curated |
| 2007-08 |
Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition > Strategy > Practice in
collaboration with Ivan Rupnik, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (Jan-Mar 2007). Venues: Opatija (Oct 2007), Zagreb (Mar-Apr 2008), Oslo (May 2008) Bucharest (May 2008), Ljubljana (2009), Havana (2009) |
| 2001-02 |
Architecture or Revolution: Charles Moore and Yale in the late1960s, Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven. (Nov 2001-Feb 2002) |
| 1999-2001 |
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937, with Monika Platzer and Dieter Bogner. Organizing institutions: CCA, Montreal; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Austrian Ministry of Education and Culture, Vienna. Venues: Prague, Obecni Dum (Dec 1999-March 2000; CCA, Montreal (May-Oct 2000); Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Feb-May 2001); Kunstforum, Vienna (June-Sept 2001) |
| 1988-90 |
Architecture and Its Image: Four Centuries of Architectural Representation, with Edward Kaufman. Organizing institution: Canadian Centre for Architecture. Venues: CCA 1989; Dallas Museum of Art, 1990. |
| Awards, Prizes |
| 2001 |
Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians,
Book Award: The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. |
| 2000 |
Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for the best book on Austrian History,
Book Prize: The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. |
| 2000 |
Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for the best book on Austrian History,
Book Prize: The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. |
| 1991 |
Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award, Society of Architectural Historians,
Exhibition Catalogue Award: Architecture and Its Image. |
| 1990 |
Citation for Excellence in International Architectural Book Publishing, American Institute of Architects,
Book Award: Architecture and Its Image. |
| 1982 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship |
| 1981-82 |
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Research
Associate |
| 1981 |
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid |
| 1980 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend |
| 1979 |
American Philosophical Society Grant |
| 1975-77 |
Kress Foundation Art History
Fellowship, for research in London, England |
| 1974-75 |
Robert C. Bates Fellowship, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale
University |
