Department of Art and Art History    
Tufts University    
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Education

Ph.D. / Harvard University, Fine Arts / 1993
M.A. / Harvard University, Fine Arts / 1990
A.B. / Princeton University, English and American Literature / 1986

 
Teaching Experience

Tufts University
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, 2001-present
Director, Architectural Studies, 2000 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, 1998 – 2001
Lecturer, Department of Art History, Summer School, 1992

Connecticut College
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, 1993 - 1998
Founding Director, Architectural Studies, 1995 - 1998

Harvard University
Tutorial Instructor, Head Teaching Fellow, and Teaching Fellow, Department of Fine Arts and Core Curriculum Program, 1988-92

 
Publications

Books

Obsolescence: The Fate of Architecture in the Twentieth Century, in progress.

Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694-1942, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.

Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.

Selected Articles and Chapters

“Boston’s West End: Urban Obsolescence in Mid-Twentieth-Century America,” in Aggregate, vol. I: Governing by Design: Architecture and Crisis from Modernization to Sustainability, eds. Arindam Dutta, Timothy Hyde, Daniel M. Abramson, and the Aggregate Collective, in progress.

“History: The Long Eighteenth Century,” in special section on “Learning from Interdisciplinarity,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64/4 (December 2005), pp. 419-21.

“Commercialization and Backlash in Late Georgian Architecture,” in Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture, edited by Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar, Ashgate Press, 2004.  Reviewed in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2006.

“Mary Miss and the Art of Engagement,” in Mary Miss, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

 “Obsolescence: Notes Towards a History,” Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building 5 (2003), special issue on “Architecture After Capitalism,” pp. 106-112.

“Make History, Not Memory,” Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 1999), special issue on “Constructions of Memory,” pp. 78-83.

"Maya Lin and the 1960s: Monuments, Time Lines, and Minimalism," Critical Inquiry 22/4 (Summer 1996), pp. 679-709.  Reviewed in The Wilson Quarterly  21/1 (Winter 1997), pp. 132-133

"C. R. Cockerell and 'The Architectural Progress of the Bank of England,'" Architectural History 37 (1994), pp. 112-129.

 
Selected Talks, Lectures, and Conferences

“Obsolescence: The Fate of Architecture in the Twentieth Century,” “Utopia of Modernity: Zlín” Symposium, Zlín (Czech Republic), 2009

“Utopia”, respondent at “History of the Future” Colloquium, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2009

“The Promise of Obsolescence,” Architecture and Knowledge Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard University, 2009

“Urban Obsolescence in Twentieth-Century America,” Centre for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin Technical University (Germany), 2008

“Obsolete: The Fate of Architecture in the Twentieth Century”: Department of History of Art, Cambridge University (England); Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London (England), 2008

 “’An Obsolete Neighborhood’: Boston’s West End and the Ideology of Obsolescence”: Aggregate Working Conference, Oberlin College, 2008; Barbara Miller Lane Colloquium on the Built Environment, Bryn Mawr College, 2008; Society for American City and Regional Planning History National Conference,  Portland (Maine), 2007

“Architecture in the Age of Obsolescence”: Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 2007; Program in Art History, Massachusetts College of Art + Design, 2007; Department of Art History, Boston University, 2006

 “Economic Evidence (Follow the Money)”, Histories of British Architecture: Where Next? conference, Yale Center for British Art, 2006

 “Obsolescence: History, Diagnosis, Remedy,” The Architecture of Hospitals conference, University of Groningen Medical Center (Netherlands), 2005

 “Obsolescence and Modern Architecture”: Department of Art, Wesleyan University, 2004; Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

“Architecture Teaching History: Learning from the Bank of England,” Re-constructing British Classicism conference, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), 2003   

 
Related Professional Activities

Book Review Editor, North and South American topics, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2005-2008

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees: Princeton University School of Architecture, 2008; Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007; Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology, 1999

Master’s Thesis Review Committee: Yale University School of Architecture, Masters of Environmental Design Program, 2008.

Guest Design Critic:  Tufts University, 1998-present; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2001; Rhode Island School of Design, School of Architecture, 1997; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1996, 2004; Connecticut College, Department of Art, 1994-97

Peer Review:  Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, 1995, 2007; Art Bulletin, 2001; Indiana University Press, 2004; Landscape Journal 2006; Yale University Press, 2009

 
Fellowships and Honors

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Senior Fellowship, 2008
Newhouse Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Wellesley College, 2007-2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007-2008
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2004-2005
Charles Warren Fellow, Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2004-2005
Mellon Research Semester Fellowship, Tufts University, 2004
Getty Institute Library Research Grant, 2000
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, 1998-99
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1998

  
Courses Taught

American Architecture: Landscape and Identity
Architecture Since 1945
Boston: Architecture and Urbanism
British Architecture: 1945-1975
British Architecture: Classicism and Ideology
Brutalist Architecture
Capitalism and the Built Environment
Colonialism and Architecture: Cortés to Corbusier
Current Theory and Practice of Art History
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gender in Architecture
Histories of Modern Architecture
Impermanence
Introduction to Architecture, 1400 to the Present
Modern Architecture, 1800-present
Monuments, Memorials, and Public Spaces 
Museum Architecture
Nineteenth-Century Architecture
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, 1400-1800
The Skyscraper
Twentieth-Century Architecture