PhD: received, December 2005, Department of Art History, University of Chicago. Dissertation
entitled, “Sites of Lost Dwelling: The Figure of the Archaic City in the Discourses of Urban
M.Arch. received from the University of California, Los Angeles, concentration in History,
Analysis and Criticism of Architecture; master’s thesis on the architecture of Grand Central
Terminal.
B.A. received from Brown University, double concentration in Anthropology and Semiotics,
senior thesis on the structures of Inuit mythology.
CSU and RSCA Research Grants (various short-term research grants), California State University, 2009-2015
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, 2007-08
Dissertation Award, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, May 2006
Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Year Fellowship: July 2004-June 2005.
Council on Library and Information Resources Dissertation Research Fellowship: June-
December 2003.
Getty Library Research Grant: February 2003.
Associate Professor: Department of Art and Art History, San José State University
(beginning August 2015,Department Chair (2016-21); specialization in the history of modern and
contemporary architecture. Courses include: Modern Architecture; Contemporary
Architecture; Design in Society; Professional Writing in Contemporary Art, and the History of
20th Century Urban Design. Developed thesis guidelines and taught graduate writing course for
the MFA program, beginning fall 2009; Responsibilities for graduate advising, beginning
fall 2010.
Assistant Professor: Department of Art and Art History, San José State University (2008-2015;
tenured and promoted May 2015).
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 - 08;
2007-2008, responsible for freshman seminar.
Dean’s Appointment: Department of Art History Temple University, 2005 - 07;
full-time teaching appointment, with undergraduate and graduate course responsibilities.
Preceptor for the Master of Arts in the Humanities Program, University of Chicago; Fall
1999- May 2002; Advised master’s theses in a variety of disciplines,
including Art History, English, Philosophy and Music.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago; Fall 2001.
Adjunct Professor in Art History at De Paul University, 1998-2001.
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago, Fall, 1998- Fall 1999.
“Inventing ‘Ecotopia: Experimental Urban Design in 1970s California,”
In Sarah Earnshaw ed.,Cultural Practices of Place: A Sense of Placing y (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-96848-8_6
Book Review: : “The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London’s Financial District,"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83, no. 4 (December 2024): 542-543.
"The Limits of Counterculture Urbanism: Utopian Planning and Practical Politics in Berkeley,
1969–73." Journal of Planning History 23, issue 1 (Winter 2024): 49-70
https://doi.org/10.1177/15385132231193389
“Revolution or Co-Evolution: Radical Ecology and Social Design,” Empower, Proceedings of the
110th Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
(Washington, DC: ACSA Press, 2023) 347-353.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.48
“Ecology as Architekturwissenschaft: Sim Van Der Ryn and the Soft Science of Radical Design,”
in Juan Almarza Anwandter et al eds., Architekturwissenschaft vom Suffix zur Agenda,
Forum Architekturwissenschaft, volume 5 (Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, summer 2021).
"Educating a ‘Creative Class’: Anti-Disciplinary School Architecture in the Early 1970s."
Childhood in the Past 13, issue 2 (2020): 138-152
https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2020.1791498
Book Review: “Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction: Creating the Modern Townscape,”
Journal of The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 1, 2016, 148-152.
“Provoking the ‘Thingness’ of History: The Anti-Teleological Hermeneutics of Steen Eiler Rasmussen,”
in Robert Corser and Sharon Haar eds.,Shaping New Knowledges, 104th ACSA Annual Meeting
(Washington DC: ACSA Press, 2016) 543-552
Book Review: “City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America," Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 4 (December 2015): 505-506.
“From Statecraft to Stagecraft: The Visual Politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition,
in Ortenberg, Paperny and Devos eds., Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1958:
Reckoning with Global War (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) 115-132.
“From Spatial Feeling to Functionalist Design: Contrasting Representations of the Baroque in
Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s Experiencing Architecture,” in
The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980,
ed. Andrew Leach, John MacArthur, and Maarten Delbeke (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) 173-184.
“‘Egalitarianism Has No Meaning Here’: Hubert de Cronin Hastings and the Aesthetic Politics of Townscape,”
Proceedings of the 16th International Planning History Society, Christopher Silver and Dan Zhu eds.
(St. Augustine: University of Florida, July 2014) 886-898.
“Urban contrast and Neo-Toryism: On the Social and Political Symbolism of
The Architectural Review’s Townscape Campaign," Planning Perspectives,
27 May 2014 (online) DOI:10.1080/02665433.2014.918861, 1-34.
"Simulating Spatial Experience in the People’s Berkeley: The Urban Design
Experiments of Donald Appleyard and Kenneth Craik," Design and Culture,
Vol. 6, no. 1, February 2011, 46-64.
"Ending the Hegemony of ‘Space’: Steen Eiler Rasmussen and the Relativization
of Baroque Aesthetics," in Hilde Heynen and Janina Gosseye, eds., Proceedings of
the 2nd International Conference of the European Architectural History Network,
Koninkligke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten,
Contactforum, Brussels, 2012, 419-423
"Spectacle of the Hyper-Real: Environmental Simulation, Cybernetic Subjects, and
Urban Design," Digital Aptitudes + Other Openings, Proceedings of the 100th Meeting
of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, ACSA Press, Washington, DC,
April 2012, 654-660.
“Constructing the Edge: Architecture in a Turbulent Age," (book review) Boom,
A Journal of California, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring 2012, 75-77.
"Civic Art in an Age of Cultural Relativism: The Aesthetic Origins of Kevin Lynch's Image of
the City," Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 16, no. 1, February 2011, 103-125
"From Urban Village to Metropolitan Picturesque: Precincts, Townscape, and the ‘Cellular’
Planning of World War II London," Conference Proceedings of the European
Architectural History Network, First Meeting, Guimarães, Portugal, June, 2010, 25-31
Book review: “Thomas H. Keels. Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City.”
in Pennsylvania History, v. 76 no. 1, Spring 2009
Book review: “Driving Spaces by Peter Merriman.” in Journal of British Studies,October 2008, pp. 995-97
“Reimagining Civic Art in the Postwar Boom: Christopher Tunnard, Kevin Lynch and the
Aesthetic Genesis of ‘Imageability,’” Public versus Private Planning: Themes Trends
and Tensions, Proceedings of the International Planning History Association, 13th Biennial
Conference, July 10-13 2008, pp. 407-420
Editorial Introduction: “Embodying Urban Design,” in Embodied Utopias, Bingaman, Sanders
and Zorach eds., Routledge, New York, 2002
Book review: “Architecture and Modernity. Hilde Heynen.” in Modernism/Modernity, v. 7 no. 3,
September 2000, 522-24
“Mirrors within the Wall: Enlightenment Authority and the Dialectics of Visual Desire in
Ledoux’s Project for the Saline de Chaux,” Chicago Art Journal, 8:1, Spring 1998, pp. 19-21
“Swarm of the Metropolis: Passenger Circulation at Grand Central Terminal and the Ideology of
the Crowd Aesthetic,” Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), 50:1 September, 1996, pp. 2-14
“Decloaking the Camera Obscura: Toward a Free-Space Cinema,” Critical Planning, Spring
1995
“Ecological Politics, Public Space and the Designer-as-Ethnologist: People’s Park
Revisited,” in Greg Castillo and Lee Stickells eds., Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area
Counterculture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025, estimated).
Book Manuscript: “Cities for an ‘Open Society’: The Aesthetic Politics of Anglo-American
Urban Design, 1940-1975”
This book proposes to describe a fundamental shift within Anglo-American urban design practices,
from a relatively closed model of a hierarchically ordered, ‘organic’ city to a relatively
indeterminate model of an open-ended, pluralistically constructed city.
“Waste Lands: Kevin Lynch and the Aesthetic Politics of the Margin,’” [journal article], draft.
“Commune Archipelago: Anti-Capitalist Housing in 1970s Berkeley,’” [journal article], draft.
“Reviving the City Beautiful in Urban Renewal America: Christopher Tunnard’s Campaign for
‘Grand Design,’” [journal article]
“From Youth Conservation Corps to Urban Street Theatre: Karl Linn and
the Design of Teenage Public Space,” European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Conference, Athens, Greece, June 2024
Conference paper: “The Bio-Therapeutic Design Experiments of Karl Linn,” PCA/ACA
Conference (Popular Culture), Chicago, March 2024
Conference paper: “Shaping a Liberated Berkeley in the 1970s: Micro-Territorial Urbanism
and the Rhetoric of ‘Community Control,’” Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh,
October 2023
Conference paper: “Commune Archipelago: Anti-Capitalist Housing in 1970s Berkeley,”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, April 2023
Conference paper: “Inventing Ecotopia: Experimental Urban Design in 1970s California,”
Mid-Term Conference, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, November 2022/p>
Conference paper: “Revolution or Co-Evolution? Radical Ecology and Social Design in
Berkeley, Circa 1970,” ACSA Annual Conference (online), May 20, 2022
Conference paper: “Design as Self-Liberation: Karl Linn, Reichian Analysis, and Social
Labor,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference (online), April 14, 2021
Conference paper: “Zoning against the Grain: People’s Architecture and the Renegotiation of
the Urban Commons,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2020
Conference paper: “Performative Urbanism and Counterculture Aesthetics: Karl Linn and the
Embodied Politics of the ‘Neighborhood Commons,’” 17th Conference on Planning History (SACRPH), Arlington, VA, October/November 2019
Conference paper: “Waste Lands: Kevin Lynch and the Aesthetic Politics of the Margins,”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Providence, RI, April 2019
Conference paper: “Ecology as Architekturwissenschaft: Sim Van Der Ryn and the Soft
Science of Radical Design,” Forum Architekturwissenschaft, Brandenburg Technical
University, Cottbus, Germany, November 2018
Conference paper: “Designing a Liberated Berkeley: Radical Ecology and the Genesis of the
‘Integral Neighborhood,’” Utopian Studies Conference, Berkeley, November 2018
Conference paper: “Educating a ‘Creative Class’: Anti-Disciplinary School Architecture in the
Early 1970s,” European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Conference, Tallinn, Estonia,
June 2018
Conference paper: “From Consumer Choice to Self-Liberation: Environmental Design
Research in 1960’s Berkeley,” 16th Conference on Planning History (SACRPH), Cleveland,
October 2017
Conference paper: “These Charming Accidents of War: Photography, Ruin and Urban
Aesthetics in Post-Blitz London,” PCA/ACA Conference (Popular Culture), San Diego,
April
2017
Conference paper: “A Counterculture Urbanism: Spatial Practices in Berkeley’s Liberated
Zone,” Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, October 2016
Conference paper: “Territories of the Liberated Self: Counterculture City Planning in
Berkeley and Cambridge, 1966-72,” Aquarius Redux Symposium, Sydney, July 2016
Conference paper: “Provoking the ‘Thingness’ of History: The Anti-Teleological
Hermeneutics of Steen Eiler Rasmussen,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture,
Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2016
Conference paper: “Matrix of Endless Difference: Kevin Lynch’s ‘Poly-Centered Net’ as
Utopian Urban Form,” 16th Conference on Planning History (SACRPH), Los Angeles, November 2015
Conference paper: “‘Egalitarianism Has No Meaning Here’: Hubert de Cronin Hastings and the
Aesthetic Politics of Townscape,” International Planning History Society (IPHS) Biennial Conference, St. Augustine, July 2014
Conference paper: ““Ecological Politics, Public Space and the Designer-as-Ethnologist:
People’s Park Revisited,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2014
Conference paper: “Inventing the ‘Pluralist City’: Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard and the
Semiotics of Cultural Difference,” 15th Conference on Planning History (SACRPH), Toronto, October 2013
Conference paper: “Staging Englishness: Visual Politics and the South Bank Exhibition,”
Style’ Architecture,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY, April 2013
Conference paper: “Baroque Spaces / Modern Subjects:A. E. Brinckmann and the ‘Organic’
City of 1920s Germany,” Savannah Symposium: Modernities across Space and Time,
Savannah, GA, February 2013
Conference paper: “Ending the Hegemony of ‘Space’: Steen Eiler Rasmussen and the
Relativization of Baroque Aesthetics,” European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
Conference, Brussels, Belgium, May 2012
Conference paper: “Spectacle of the Hyper-Real: Environmental Simulation, Cybernetic
Subjects, and Urban Design,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual
Conference, Boston, MA, March 2012
Conference paper: “Simulating Spatial Experience in the People’s Berkeley:
Style’ The Urban Design Experiments of Donald Appleyard and Kenneth Craik,” College Art
Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2012
Conference paper: “Mental Maps and Social Divides: Cybernetics, Sociology and Urban
Design at MIT and Berkeley, 1951-72,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual
Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2011
Conference paper: “From Urban Village to Metropolitan Picturesque”:
Precincts, Townscape, and the ‘Cellular’ Planning of World War II London,” European
Architectural History Network (EAHN) Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 2010
Conference paper: “Invented Dialects: José Luis Sert and the Latinization of ‘International
Style’ Architecture,” College Art Association (CAA) Conference, Chicago, February 2010
Panel Chair: “Ecoart: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Sustainable Design,” Special Session of the
Northern California Art Historians, College Art Association (CAA) Conference, Chicago,
February 2010
Conference paper: “Popularizing Architectural Aesthetics: The Idea of ‘Experience’ in the Work of Steen Eiler
Rasmussen,” PCA/ACA Conference (Popular Culture), New Orleans, April 2009
Conference paper: Conference paper: “Reimagining Civic Art in the Postwar Boom: Christopher Tunnard, Kevin
Lynch and the Aesthetic Genesis of ‘Imageability,’” International Planning History
Association Conference, Chicago, July 2008.
Conference paper: “Inventing the Modern Agora: Urban Design, Social Transparency and
Representation of ‘Public Space’ in the Post-World War II City,” College Art Association
Conference, Boston, February 2006.
Conference paper: “Dreaming the Renaissance City in the Era of Urban Renewal: Kevin Lynch’s
Florence and the Invention of Imageability,” Urban History Association Conference, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin: October 2004.
Colloquium paper: “Inventing Architectural Subjects: Functionalism, Imageabilty and the
Rhetoric of Experience in American Urbanism of the 1960’s,” Buell Dissertation Colloquium,
Columbia University, New York: May 2001.
Conference paper: “Physiognomy of a German Capital: Domenico Quaglio’s Münchner
Ansichten and the Aesthetic Resistance to Neo-Classical Urbanism,” Mid-West Germanic
Studies Conference: May 1996.
Colloquium paper: “Architectural Dream Time: Excavations in the Writings of Emil Kaufmann,”
Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Art History, University of Chicago: April 1996.
2002-2004, Historical Consultant for the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois:
Researched and wrote “National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the Farnsworth
House,” 2003.
Assisted in organizing Embodied Utopias conference a the University of Chicago: 1998-99.
Editor on the staff of the Chicago Art Journal: 1996-97