CURRICULUM VITAE

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO                                                                                               

Research Funding

 Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, University of Miami, 2005

 Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Grant, 2002/3

 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2002

 University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship: 1998/1999

 Short-term Residency, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: 1998

 Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship: 1997/1998

 Townsend Center for the Humanities Doctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley: 1997/1998

 Short-term Research Grant, Berkeley Center for Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies: Summer 1997

 Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst Research Fellowship: 1996/1997

Publications:

 “The Bauhaus in Cold War Germany,” in Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ed., (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 171-193.

 “Blueprint for a Cultural Revolution: Hermann Henselmann and the Architecture of German Socialist Realism,” in Nylon Curtain: Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in the Cultural Life of  State-Socialist Russian and East-Central Europe, György Péteri, ed., Trondheim Studies on East  European Cultures and Societies, no. 18 (Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2006), 115-141; Originally published in Slavonica 11: 1 (April, 2005).

 “Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Marshall Plan Germany,” Journal of Contemporary History 40: 2 (April 2005), 261-288.

  “Design Pedagogy Enters the Cold War: The Reeducation of Eleven West German Architects,” Journal of Architectural Education 57:4 (May 2004), 10-18. Received 2004 Best Scholarly Articleaward, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

 “Stalinist Modern: Constructivism and the Soviet Company Town,” Architectures of Russian Identity, 1 500 to the Present, James Cracraft and Dan Rowland, eds., (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2003) 131-149.  Revised reprinting of “Constructivism and the Stalinist Company Town,” Urban Design Review 2 (1996), 3-26.

 “American Modernism,Triumph and Transformation:1952-1968,” in Helmut Jacoby: Master of Architectural Drawing, Helge Bofinger and Wolfgang Voigt, eds. (Wasmuth/Deutsches Architektur-Museum, 2001) 34-45. Chinese translation, Dailan University of Technology Press, 2003.

 “New Urbanism’s Latin Connection: Interview with Andres Duany,” Architecture and Urbanism in las Americas (Aula) 3 (2002), 82-89.

 “The Battle of the International Styles in Postwar Berlin,”Centropa 1:2 (May 2001), 84-93.

 “Building Culture in East and West Berlin: Two Cold War Globalization Projects,” Hybrid Urbanism: On Identity and Tradition in the Built Environment, Nezar Alsayyad, ed. (London: Praeger, 2000) 181-205.

 “Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and Built Tradition,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review,8:2 (Spring 1997), 32-47.

 “Peoples at an Exhibition: Soviet Architecture and the National Question,” Socialist Realism Without Shores, Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, eds.  (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), Revised reprinting of an article of the same title, South Atlantic Quarterly, 94:3 (Summer 1995), 715-746. 

 “Classicism for the Masses: Books on Stalinist Architecture,” Design Book Review 34/35 (Winter/Spring 995), 78-88.

 “Gorky Street and the Design of the Stalin Revolution,” in Zenep Çelik, Diane Favro and Richard Ingersoll, eds., Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), 57-70.

 “Thermonuclear Family Values: Cold War Architecture,” Design Book Review 27 (Winter 1993), 61-67.

  “Cities of the Stalinist Empire,” in Nezar AlSayyad, ed., Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and  Urbanism of the Colonial Experience (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1992), 261-287.

Accepted for Publication:

 Cold War on the Home Front: Midcentury Design in the Service of Cultural Revolution (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), forthcoming.

 “Exhibiting the Good Life: Marshall Plan Modernism in Divided Berlin,” in Cold War Modern: Art and Design in a Divided World, 1945-1975, David Crowley and Jane Pavett, eds. Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2008)

 “Promoting Socialist Cities and Citizens: East Germany’s National Building Program,” in P.E. Swett, S.J.Wiesen and J.R. Zatlin, eds., Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Modern

German History (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).

 “Fantasyland: Modernity and Artifice,” in Allan Shulman, ed. Miami: Midcentury Modern Metropolis (New York: Thames & Hudson, forthcoming).

   “The American ‘Fat Kitchen’ in Europe: Domestic Modernity and the Marshall Plan,” accepted for The Politics of the Kitchen in the Cold War, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, eds. (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, forthcoming).

Publications, Collaborative works:

 Second author (with Cristina Mehrtens), “The Lost City of Miami,” Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas (Aula) 3, 2002, 82-89.

 Author of second edition revisions: Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

 Collaborating author (with Spiro Kostof), The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1992).

 Co-editor of “Miami Tropical” theme issue, Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas (Aula) No. 3; June 2002.

Conference Papers:

 “Exhibiting the Good Life: ‘Fifties Domestic Design in Divided Berlin,” Victoria & Albert Museum Symposium, “The Cold War Expo, 1945-1975,” London, 5 January 2007

 “Redeeming Bourgeois Domestic Design: Socialist Realism as the West’s Salvation,” Project on Eastern European Cultures and Societies symposium: Imagining the West, Manchester, 2 June 2006.

 “Bauhaus Imaginaries: The Postwar Appropriation of Weimar-era Modernism,” for the panel “Architects’ Architectural Histories,” Society of Architectural Historians, National Meeting, Savannah, 27 April 2006.

 “East as True West: Socialist Realist Berlin and the Preservation of Western Culture,” symposium on Remapping the East, University of Edinburgh, 18 February 2006. 

 “Faulty Transmission: Americanization and the US Program of Urban Planning Training for West German Architects, 1950,” conference on The Americanization of Postwar Architecture, University of Toronto, 2 December 2005.

 “Urban Design Pedagogy Enters the Cold War,” the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) conference, Miami, 21 October 2005.

 “Consuming the Canon: The Survey as a History of its Users,” “Constructing Architectural History: Canon, Text, Survey” Symposium, College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley, 4-5 March 2005.

“The American ‘Fat’ Kitchen in Postwar Germany,” for the panel “The Cold War Kitchen,” International Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Amsterdam, October 2004.

“Exhibiting Domestic Culture in Divided Germany: Strategies of Quarantine and Cross-Fertilization,” symposium on “Real Socialism and the Second World,” Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 1 May 2004.

 “The Architecture of a Master Narrative: Berlin’s Socialist Realist Reconstruction,” Symposium on Soviet Cultural Globalization, Oberlin College, March 2003.

 “Modernism as Stylistic Revival in Cold War Germany,” for the panel “Revivals Revisited: History, Memory and Visual Culture, 1789-1950,” College Art Association, National Meeting, Seattle, February 2004.  

 “Domesticating the Cold War: Model Homes and Model Citizens in Postwar Europe,” Conference on the Post-War European Home, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 12 May 2003.

 “Revolutions in Cold War Domesticity,” presented at “Across the East-West Divide,” an international workshop sponsored by the Program on East European Cultures and Societies at the Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Collegium Budapest, Budapest, 1 February 2003.

 “Importing the Soviet City and its Citizens: Berlin’s Stalinallee,” for the panel “Urban Constructs: The Soviet City, 1930s-’60s.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, National Meeting, Pittsburg, November 2002.

 “From the Marshall Plan to the Kitchen Debate: Domesticity as a Cold War Weapon.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) International Meeting, Havana, June 2002.

 “The Other International Style: Socialist Realism and the Design of Postwar Germany.”  Society of   Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture panel: “What is Socialist Realism?” College Art Association Conference, New York City, February, 2000.

 “Architecture, Soviet Modernism, and the Crucible of Stalinism,” Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture symposium, “Russian Modernism: Methods and Meaning in the Post-Soviet Era,” sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the University of Maryland, College Park MD, April 1999.

 “Building Stalin’s Germany,” Invitational workshop, “Identity and Community in a Globalizing World,” U.C. Berkeley International and Area Studies, Sonoma, December 1998.

 “Manufactured Proletariat: Constructivism and the Stalinist Company Town,” National Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: “Deconstructing Identity,” Cleveland, March 1998.

 “Building Stalin’s Germany: Architecture and Cultural Revolution,” International Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Berlin, June 1997.

  “Building Stalin’s Germany,” presented at the conference and workshop “Architecture and Group Identity: Russia, 1500-Present,” Social Science Research Council, Chicago, May 1996.

 “Stalinist Modern: Constructivsm Reconsidered,” National Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, April 1995.

 “Peoples at an Exhibition: Soviet Architecture and the National Question,” National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 1994.

Conference Panels Organized and Chaired:

Symposium co-organizer (with Dr. Paolo Scrivano, Department of Fine Art and Faculty of Architecture,

Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto), “The Americanization of Postwar Architecture,” University of Toronto, 2-3 December 2005.

Conference panel organizer, “Americanization and its Discontents: Postwar US Urban Planning Influences Abroad,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH), National conference, Miami, 20-23 October 2005.

Symposium co-organizer (with Prof. Marc Treib, School of Architecture, University of California),

Constructing Architectural History: Canon, Text, Survey, College of Environmental Design,

University of California at Berkeley, 4-5 March 2005.

 Topic Co-Chair, “Outposts of History;” Panel Co-Chair, “Outposts or Utopia?” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Conference, Miami Beach, March 2004

  Panel Moderator, “The Interior World of Socialism: Home Life in the Eastern Bloc, 1950s-1960s,” National Conference of the American Association of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, November 2002.

 Topic Co-Chair and Panel Moderator, “Doctoral Works-in-Progress,” ACSA International Conference, Havana, June 2002.

Refereeing:

Conference Paper Referee, Architectural History submissions, ACSA National Conference, 2003 and 2001.

Invited Lectures:

 “Soviet Architects in the USA, 1945-1955: Learning, Transfers and the Politics of Domestic Artifacts,” Program on East European Cultures and Societies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 25 November 2005.

 “Contested Modernisms: Egon Eiermann, Hans Scharoun, and the Struggle to Define a Postwar GermanModernism,” Faculty of Architecture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 24 November 2005.

 “Canon, Text and Survey: Revisiting the Kostof Legacy,” keynote presentation, 2005 Spring Forum of L’Institut de Recherche en Historie de l’Architecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 27 April 2005.

 “Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Divided Germany,” Center for Eurasian, Russian and Eastern European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 25 April, 2005.

 “Modernisms, Reactionary and Otherwise: Negotiating the Past in Cold War Germany,” Collins/ Kaufmann Forum lecture, Department of Art History, Columbia University, 21 April 2005.

 “Domesticating the Cold War: Household Design, Consumption and the Fall of the East,” Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, University of Tübingen (Germany), 5 July 2004.

 “Socialist Realism: the Other ‘International Style’ Architecture,” invitational lecture symposium on “Soviet Cultural Globalization,” Oberlin College, 13 March 2004.

 “From the Marshall Plan to the Kitchen Debate: Domesticity as a Cold War Weapon,” Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture, European Studies Centre, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, England, 13 May 2003.  

 “Architecture as a Cold War Weapon,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, July 2002.

 “Furnishing Ideology: Modernist Domestic Design in Cold War Germany.” Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, January 2001.

 “Two Cold War Pilgrimages: Urban Design, Knowledge Transfer and the Cultural Division of Germany.” Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, March 1998.

 “Soviet Orientalism: Architecture and Built Tradition” Presented at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Monday Lecture Series, Washington DC, May 1996.

Research Statement:

            My research endevours, broadly speaking, examine the cold war Kulturkampf that engaged architecture, urbanism and domestic design. The case study of my investigations is divided Germany of the early postwar era, where cultural campaigns split national design traditions into inimical Eastern and Western camps. Opposing notions of democracy, modernity, and social and economic progress were backed by the US and the USSR, and transmitted to divided Germany not just as ideals, but also as idealized environments – from cities and streets, to individual buildings and their furnishings.

            My study of the cold war’s ‘Battle of the Styles’ in eastern and western Germany originated in an investigation of Soviet architectural history, undertaken with an interest in revising biases embedded in Western architectural histories. These exploratory studies laid the foundation for a doctoral thesis investigating the imposition of the Soviet design tradition known as Socialist Realism in East Germany. My analysis of Socialist Realism as the expression of a failed effort in cultural globalization demanded an equally critical review of the corresponding patronage of International-Style modernism by the US Marshall Plan as a signifier of Western Europe’s integration into a grand North Atlantic alliance. This comparative analysis of architectural culture in East Bloc and Marshall Plan Europe, based on archival materials made accessible only after the collapse of East German communism, offers a revisionist perspective on the politics of postwar design and the forging of the cold war’s binary world-view. Two additional historiographic agendas which inflect my research and teaching are the desire to weave a global design history from the narratives of regions separated by geopolitics, and an interest in integrating architectural history into the broader, interdisciplinary chronicle of global culture and its processes of transfer and transformation.

TEACHING PORTFOLIO

Teaching grants and fellowships:

            Miami Consortium for Urban Studies, Course Development Grant, 2005

            Fulbright Fellowship, German Fulbright Seminar on German Visual Culture, 2004

Teaching awards:

             Professor of the Year (student vote), University of Miami School of Architecture, 2004

             Professor of the Year (student vote), University of Miami School of Architecture, 2001

Thesis Advising:

Dissertation Committee (outside member), Vladimir Kuliç “Modern Architecture and Politics in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1948-1980,” University of Texas at Austin, in progress.

Teaching specialization:

            Twentieth Century Architectural History

            Global Architectural History Survey

            Methods of Inquiry in Architectural History Research

            Social and Cultural History of Urban Form

Teaching Statement:

My pedagogical orientation was shaped in large part by my mentor at the University of California at Berkeley, the late Spiro Kostof. He advocated an architectural history canon that catalogued not only monuments to the genius of individual designers, but also vernacular buildings – a canon which, in his words, was to be “inclusive,” “democratic,” and “full and representative.” As one of Kostof’s disciples (and the author of second edition revisions to his survey textbook, A History of Architecture), I conceive of my teaching in terms of imparting architectural history to future architects and knowledge consumers from other disciplines – a philosophy that implies specific pedagogical strategies.

In the context of design education, the historian uses the canon to explore issues like the development and transformation of building types, construction technology, the role of theory and criticism in practice, and techniques of architectural representation – all of these being requisite to excellence in professional practice. But the historian’s role as interdisciplinary mediator also demands that these facets of training be situated within their broader cultural and historical context.

The history of the design profession constitutes another important facet of teaching. My approach is derived from other historical disciplines and their investigation of the emergence of professional elites – in other words, focusing not just on specific careers, but also on broader career developments, and positioning the profession in the context of its cultural, organizational, and symbolic manifestations.

Theory and criticism are also crucial to architecture’s historical narrative, especially in their frequent role as appendages to design movements. My approach to architectural pedagogy distinguishes this kind of applied history, which mobilizes theory and criticism to produce shifts in power within the design establishment, from a “meta-history” that scrutinizes the instrumental uses of theories, critical positions, and historical narratives.