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Margaret Crawford Professor Department of Urban Planning and Design |
Curriculum Vitae
| Education | |
| 1980-90 | Urban Planning Program, Graduate
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California,
Los Angeles. Degree: Ph.D. Specialization: History of American Architecture and Urbanism, Architectural and Urban Theory, Urban Design, U.S. Urban History, History of Housing, U.S. and Europe. Dissertation topic: "The Design of Company Towns in the United States, 1880-1930" |
| 1977-79 | Architectural Association Graduate
School, London, England Degree: Graduate Diploma with Honors |
| 1969-75 | University of California, Berkeley Degree: Bachelor of Arts |
| Academic Positions | |
| 2000- | Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1985-1999 | Chair, History and Theory Program,
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California
Responsible for overseeing development of history, theory, and humanities curriculum, recruiting faculty, scheduling courses. |
| 1999 | Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Urbanistica e Pianificazione del Territorio, Facolta di Architettura, Universita degli Studi di Firenze |
| 1997 | Visiting Professor, Art History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Publications | |
| Books | |
| 2005 | Everyday Urbanism:
Margaret Crawford vs. Michael Speaks (Michigan Debates on Urbanism), Rahul Mehrotra (Editor), University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture |
| 1999 | Co-Editor (with John Chase and John Kaliski) Everyday Urbanism, New York: Monacelli Press. |
| 1995 | Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of the American Company Town, London: Verso |
| 1991 | Co-Editor (with Martin Wachs) The Car and the City: The Automobile, The Built Environment and Daily Urban Life, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. |
| Articles and Book Chapters | |
| 2006 | "Urban design now: a discussion". Margaret Crawford, Julia Czerniak, Paul Goldberger, Alex Krieger, Rodolfo Machado, Farshid Moussavi, Dennis Pieprz, William S. Saunders, Matthew Urbanski. Harvard design magazine, no. 25., pp. 19-35, Fall-2007 2006 |
| 2005 | "The ghosts in City Hall: urban planning and the emotions". Harvard design magazine, no. 22, pp. 33-35, Spring-Summer 2005 |
| 2001 | "Why Schindler? Why now?" [exhibition review] Blueprints, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 6-7,11, Summer 2001 |
| 2000 | "Los Angeles Dingbat" Architecture Australia, May-June, v.89, n.3, p.52-57 |
| "An Education in Distinction: On the Class in the Class", Harvard Design Magazine, vol. 11, Summer. | |
| "Desdibujando las fronteras: espacio pu´blico y vida privada = Blurring the boundaries: public space and private life" Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme, n.228, p.14-29 | |
| "The everyday city: Margaret Crawford talks with George Thrush [interview]". Architecture Boston, Fall, p.[34]-38 | |
| 1999 | "The Architect and the Mall" in You Are Here: The Jerde Partnership International, New York: Phaidon Press. |
| "The New Company Town" in Perspecta 30, Louise Harpman and Evan Subcoff, editors | |
| 1998 | "Remembering and Forgetting Schindler: The Social History of An Architectural Reputation," in R.M. Schindler, Ten Houses, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili Press |
| 1997 | "John Nolen the design of the company town," Rassegna, Dec., v.19, n.70, p.46-53 |
| 1996 | "Investigating the City: Detective Fiction as Urban Interpretation," in The Sex of Architecture, Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, Leslie Weisman, eds. New York: Harry N. Abrams |
| 1995 | "Architects, Clients, and Company Towns: The Case of Tyrone, New Mexico," Ten + One 4, Autumn |
| "Contesting the Public Realm; Struggles over Public Space in Los Angeles," Journal of Architectural Education 49, Fall | |
| "On Public Space, Quasi-Public Space and Public Quasi-Space," Modulus 23, Fall | |
| "Daily Life on the Home Front: Women, Blacks, and the Struggle for Public Housing," in World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation, edited by Donald Albrecht, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press | |
| 1994 | "Mi Casa es su Casa: The Politics of Everyday Life in East Los Angeles," catalogue essay for House Rules exhibition at the Wexler Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Fall 1994, published in Assemblage, Fall 1994. Republished in Urban Latin Cultures: La Vida Latina, edited by Gustavo Leclerc, Raul Villa and Michael Dear, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999. |
| 1993 | "Public Spaces and Parallel Worlds," (with Marco Cenzatti) Casabella 597-598, January-February |
| "In favor of the fringe", Progressive architecture, Mar., v.74, n.3, p.116 | |
| 1992 | "Redesigning the Company Town: Early S. Draper and the Southern Textile Village," in The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age, edited by John S. Garner, New York: Oxford University Press |
| "The World as a Shopping Mall," in Variations on a Theme Park: Scenes from the New American City, edited by Michael Sorkin, New York: Hill and Wang. German translation published in Arch+ 114-115, December 1992. Condensed version published in Bauen Werk und Wohnen, April 1995. | |
| 1991 | "The Fifth Ecology: Fantasy, the Automobile, and Los Angeles," in The Car and the City, edited by Martin Wachs and Margaret Crawford, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Japanese translation published in Ten + One 2, Fall 1994. |
| 1990 | "Can Architects be Social Responsible?" in Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture, edited by Diane Ghirardo, Seattle: Bay Press. |
| "The Ecology of Fantasy," Los Angeles: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design | |
| 1989 | "Bertram Goodhue, Walter Douglas, and Tyrone, New Mexico," Journal of Architectural Education 42, Summer |
| 1987 | "Los Angeles: ecologia della fantasia—benessere dell'economia," D'ARS 114, January |
| 1986 | "La Shopping Mall e lo Strip: da tipologia edilizia a forma urbana," Urbanistica 83, May |
| 1980 | "Gentrification and Capital in the United States," in Social/Spatial Formations, edited by Renaldo Ramirez, London: Development Planning Unit, University College |
| Book and Exhibition Reviews | |
| 2001 | "Why Schindler? Why now? [exhibition review]", Blueprints, Summer, v. 19, n. 3, p. 6-7, 11. |
| 1998 | "Postmodern cities and spaces [ed. by] Katherine Gibson, Sophie Watson [and] Writing on cities [by] Henri Lefebvre [book review]" Harvard design magazine, Winter-Spring, p.84-85 |
| 1996 | "Creating the Modern South," Technology and Culture 24, July |
| "An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55, December | |
| "Suburban Graceland" Los Angeles Times, Book Review, August 25 | |
| 1994 | "Magic Lands: Western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 by John M Findlay, [book review]" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53, no. 1, p. 471-3December |
| 1992 | Review essay: "The Hacienda Must Be Built," Design Book Review 22, Spring |
| 1990 | Review essay: "The Ideology of Arts and Crafts," Journal of Architectural Education 44, Fall |
| 1989 | "San Francisco and Los Angeles: Two Urban Histories," The Journal of American History 76, September |
| 1987 | "Arcades" Design Book Review 12, Spring |
| Articles About Her Research | |
| 2002 | Dupree, Catherine, "Malls on the Median", Harvard Magazine, Mar.-Apr. |
| 2000 | Gerwertz, Ken, "Outlaw entrepreneurs: Urban design professor supports street vendors use of public space" Harvard Gazette, Nov. 30 |
| Conferences & Seminars | |
| 2004 | "Everyday Urbanism", Michigan Debates on Urbanism,Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, January 30. |
| 2002 | "Shaping Civic and Public Realms: What is the Role of Urban Design?" Moderator. Urban Design: Practices, Pedagogies, Premises, Lighthouse International, 111 East 59 Street, NYC, April 5. |
| 2000 | "Booktalk" Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Spring |
| 1999 | "Exploring (New) Urbanism: a conference at the Harvard Design School", Harvard University Graduate School of Design, March 4-6 |