EDUCATION

Mount Lebanon High School, graduated 1966

Principia College, BA. 1970 with highest honors

University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. 1976.

Dissertation: The Architecture of the Hospital 1770-1870: Design and Technology.

Supervisor: Prof. David Van Zanten

UNIVERSITY POSITIONS

University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Fellow 1971-72

University of Pennsylvania, Head Teaching Fellow 1972-74

Philadelphia Community College, Lecturer, 1975-76

Philadelphia College of Art, Lecturer, 1976-77

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Architecture and Art History

Assistant Professor 1977-83

Associate Professor 1983-1993

Director of Preservation Program 1977-83

Director of Graduate Study 1987-90

Professor 1994- Present, in Department of Art History and School of Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 1981

Columbia University, Visiting Associate Professor, Fall 1989

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member, Search Committee for Head, School of Architecture

Member, Search Committee for Dean of College of Architecture and the Arts

Chair, Program Committee appointed by Provost to prepare plans for expanded Jane Addams

Hull-House Museum, 1998-99

Member, Graduate College Executive Committee, 1997-2000

Member, Institute for the Humanities Executive Committee, 1996-2000

Member, Ad Hoc Committee appointed by Provost to report on GIS usage on campus

Member, University of Illinois Press Board, 1997-2000

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service

Historian, State of Indiana Survey, summer 1973

Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service

Historian, Eastern Indiana summer 1974

San Diego, Calif. summer 1975

Benicia, Calif. summer 1976

Supervisor, Santa Clara Co. Calif. summer 1977, 1978

Faculty Member National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Chicago

Architecture, Summer 1984

HONORS AND AWARDS

Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-74

Head Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-74

Penfield Scholarship in Diplomacy, International Affairs and Belles lettres for research in Europe, academic year 1973-74

Founder's Award, Society of Architectural Historians 1978 for best article by a young scholar in

the Society's journal for that year

University of Illinois at Chicago, Faculty summer fellowship, summer 1980

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities 1983-84

Fellowship, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts, 1985

Senior Fellowship, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, 1989-90

Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1992-93

Scholarship, Great Cities Institute, U. of Illinois at Chicago 1998-99

Spiro Kostof Award for best book on architecture and Urbanism, 1996-97, Society of

Architectural Historians, 1998

PUBLICATIONS

1. Books written

Benicia: Portrait of an Early California Town: An Architectural History, 1846 to the Present, 101

Productions, San Francisco, 1980. Review in Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1982.

Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root, Catalog of Work 1910-1940, three volumes, Garland Publishing Co., New York, 1991. Reviews in Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, June 1992 and Design Book Review, Winter 1992.

The Architects and the City: Holabird and Roche of Chicago 1880-1918 , University of Chicago

Press, 1997. This book was the recipient of the Spiro Kostof Book Award for

Architecture and Urbanism of the Society of Architecture Historians, 1998, “judged to be

the best work published in 1996 and 1997 contributing to our understanding of the physical environment” Reviews in Urban History, Oct. 1999, Journal of American History, Sept. 1998, Business History, July 1998, Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 7, 1997, New Criterion, Jan. 1998

Sprawl in preparation

The Architects and the Metropolis: Holabird & Root of Chicago 1919-1945 in preparation

2. Books Edited

A Guide to 150 Years of Chicago Architecture, Chicago Review Press, 1985 (With Paul Florian,

Cynthia Weese) Accompanied exhibition "150 Years of Chicago Architecture" Museum

of Science and Industry, Chicago.

Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy

University of Chicago Press, 1994. Wrote Introduction, Chapter entitled “Military Culture, Architectural Culture, Popular Culture,” Epilogue.

3. Electronic Publications

Traveling Fellows: Fifteen Years of Years of Student Awards by the Skidmore, Owings &

Merrill Foundation, printed booklet and CD ROM, CD design and production by Spliteye Multi-Media New York, 1997, distribution arrangement pending.

The Chicago Imagebase Project, (with Peter B. Hales) interactive World Wide Web site including

images and other data about the built environment of the Chicago metropolitan area allowing database searches and visual navigation via Geographic Information System (GIS). Funding from office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois, NEH and other sources. Site inaugurated 1996. Administered by City Design Center, College of Architecture and the Arts and Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.

http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/

4. Essays for books of multiple authorship

"Architecture Confronts Technology: A Historical Perspective," in Energy Conservation through

Building Design, Edited Donald Watson, McGraw Hill, 1978 (With Donald Prowler)

"Preservation, Conservation, Restoration," in An International Handbook of Contemporary

Developments in Architecture, Edited Warren Sanderson, Greenwood Press, 1981.

"HABS in the Awkward Years," in Historic America, Edited by Ford Peatross, Washington,

Library of Congress, 1983.

"Post-Modernism" in Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture, Revised edition, Thames and

Hudson, 1985.

“Urban Elements,” Introductory text for Ralph Johnson of Perkins & Will, Rizzoli International,

1995.

“The American City: Urban Aberration or Glimpse of the Future?” in Joseph Tulchin and Blair

Ruble, editors, Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces,

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. 336-367.

“The Architect as Urbanist,” in Roberto de Alba editor, Paul Rudolph Reconsidered, Whitney

Library of Design, in press, Monticello, expected 2001

“The Paradoxes of Urban Sprawl Reform,” in Robert Freestone, (ed.) Urban Planning in a

Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E&F Spon, 2000, 158-174

“Martin Roche,” in Jon A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American National Biography, Oxford

University Press, 1999, Vol. 18, pp. 689-690.

“Urban Sprawl,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil J.

Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, in press.

“Urban Density and Sprawl: An Historic Perspective,” in Land Use Planning for the 21^st

Century, edited by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley, Greenwood Press,

publication expected 2001.

“Built Environment,” one of approximately nineteen enterpretive essays for James Grossman, Jan

Reiff and Ann Durkin Keating, Eds, The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, University of

Chicago Press, expected 2002

5. Articles on History of Architecture and Urban Development

"The Energy Crisis, A Pre-History," in Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1977.

"Early Central Heating and Forced Ventilation and Architectural Design," Journal of the Society

of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1978. Winner of SAH Founder's Award for best article by a young scholar

"The Tribune Competition: The Metropolis of the 1920s," Inland Architect, June 1980

"Holabird and Roche and Holabird and Root, the First Two Generations," Chicago History, Fall

1980. Served as catalogue for the show of the same name at the Chicago Historical Society

"Two Post-Modernist Visions of Urban Design," Landscape, Summer 1982, pp. 31-37.

"Little Journeys to the Offices of the Architects," Inland Architect May-June 1983, pp. 8-29

Served as catalogue for "New Chicago Architecture" show at Art Institute of Chicago.

"Architecture without the Capital A: Documentation in a Post-Modern World" Art

Documentation,

"LaSalle Street," (With Peter Hales) Chicago History, Winter 1985-86, pp. 22-43.

The ACSA Conference on the Chicago World Fair of 1992," in Central: Papers on Architecture,

Winter 1987, pp. 143-147.

"Planning for Today's Downtown," Inland Architect, Nov.-Dec. 1987, pp. 36-42.

"The Colossus of North Michigan Avenue: Urban Implications," (On John Hancock Center,

Chicago) in Design Book Review, Fall 1988

"Music and the Friendly Skies" (On tunnel at United Terminal) Twenty-One, 20/1, fall 1989,

pp. 6-17.

"The Art Institute Expands: Challenges of Mid-Century," in Museum Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1,

1988, pp. 57-82

"Spiro Kostof" in Chicago Architectural Club Journal, 1990

"The Rational Tradition: An interview with Ralph Johnson," in Inland Architect, Mar-Apr 1991,

pp. 50-53.

"The Marquette Building and the Myth of the Chicago School," Threshold, 1991.

"United Airlines Terminal One," in Alice Sinkevtich, Ed., AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture,

1993, pp. 264-265.

6. Exhibition Catalog Essays

"Daniel Burnham, Jules Guerin and the Image of the City," in The Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979,

exhibition catalogue for show at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ed. John Zukowsky,

Art Institute of Chicago, 1979

"Utilitas, Firmitas , Venustas and the Vox Populi, A Context for Controversy," in The Critical

Edge, Ed. Tod Marder for exhibition organized by Rutgers University. Rutgers Art Museum and MIT Press, 1985

"Panorama," (With Sabra Clark) in Robert Bruegmann, Cynthia Weese and Paul Florian,

150 Years of Chicago Architecture, 1985

"When Worlds Collided: European and American Entries to the Chicago Tribune Competition of

1922" in Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, for show organized at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ed. John Zukowsky, Art Institute of Chicago, 1987

Paul Rudolph: Four Recent Projects in Southeast Asia, booklet for Art Institute of Chicago

show at Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Chicago, 1987

"From the City Beautiful to the Jazz Age City" essay for catalog Fragments of Chicago's Past,

Ed. Pauline Saliga, Art Institute of Chicago, 1990

"The Pencil and the Electronic Sketchpad: Architectural Representation and the Computer"

in Eve Blau and Ned Kaufman, Editors, Architecture and its Image, catalog of

inaugural show at Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 1989

"Dreams and Details," booklet for exhibition on the work of Paul Rudolph, Steelcase Design

Partnership exhibition space, New York, 1989

"Schaumburg, Oak Brook, Rosemont and the Recentering of the Chicago Metropolitan Area," in

John Zukowsky, Editor, Chicago Architecture and Design 1923-93, catalog for show at

Art Institute of Chicago, 1993

"Chicago Avenue Armory" in Art at the Armory, for installations show at the Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1992.

"Herbert Tullgren and America in the 1930s," in Brian Wishne, Editor, Architecture of Herbert

W. Tullgren, 1992

“Airport City,” in John Zukowsky, Editor, Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for

Commercial Aviation, for exhibition on the architecture of air travel at the Art Institute of

Chicago, Prestel Verlag, 1996.

7. Criticism of Recent Architecture and Urban Development

"What Price Preservation?" Planning, June 1980. Reprinted in National Trust for Historic

Preservation, Preservation Policy Research, 1985.

"Relighting the Skyline," Inland Architect, March-April 1982

"Rowhouse Revival" (On City Commons and other new Chicago rowhouse complexes) Inland

Architect, Jan.-Feb. 1987, pp. 27-34.

"High Flight: United Gambles and Wins at O'Hare," (On new United Terminal by Murphy/Jahn)

Inland Architect, Sept. 1988.

"The Suburban Corporate Landscape," (On landscape at TRW, Lyndhurst, Ohio; McDonald's,

Oakbrook, Ill.; Carlson Center, Minnetonka, Minn.) Inland Architect, Sept.-Oct. 1989

"The New Main Street" (On speculative office buildings along the expressways) Inland Architect,

Nov.-Dec. 1990

"Eclectic New Look for the Italian Village," (restaurant design by Jordan Mozer) in Inland

Architect, Jan./Feb. 1991, pp. 7-10.

"Local Asymmetries" (On Morton International Building and Orland Park Civic Center by Ralph

Johnson of Perkins and Will) in Inland Architect, Mar.-Apr. 1991, pp. 43-49.

"Preservation's Touchstone," (On Rookery Building restoration), Inland Architect, July-Aug. 1992, pp. 50-57.

"Vox Populi," (On discount malls and strip centers) Inland Architect, July-August 1992.

8. Magazine Issues edited

(With Roberta Feldman) "Affordable Housing" issue of Inland Architect, Sept. 1993.

9. Reviews Essays

Michel Foucault et al, Les machines a guerir: a l'origine de l'hopital moderne, in Journal of the

Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1978

Vittorio Lampugnani, Architecture of the 20th century in Drawings, in Design Book Review,

Summer 1983

Library of Congress, Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, in JSAH, May 1985,

pp. 174-175

Robert Twombly, Louis Sullivan His Life and Work, David Andrew, Louis Sullivan and the

Polemics of Modern Architecture, in Design Book Review, 1987

Victoria Newhouse, Wallace K. Harrison, Architect, in Architectural Record, Jan. 1990

Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City, in Journal of the Society of Architectural

Historians, March 1992, pp. 105-06 with letter from Plunz and reply in Dec. 1992 issue.

Zeynip Celik, Diane Favro and Richard Ingersoll, editors, Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public

Space, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1998.

Michael J. Dear, H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise, editors, Rethinking Los Angeles, in Journal

of American Planning Association, forthcoming

10. Other publications

"New Centers on the Periphery," Interview between Robert Bruegmann and Tim Davis in Center

Magazine, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 26-43, on conference at University of Texas, Austin (See

below under conferences)

“The Twenty Three Percent Solution,” Invited comment on “Bold New City or Built up ‘Burb?

Redefining Contemporary Suburbia, American Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, March 1994,

pp. 31-32.

Introduction to Christopher Domin and Joseph T. King, Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses,

Princeton Architecture Press, expected, spring 2001

Various articles in the Christian Science Monitor, Preservation News, 11593 and other publications

11. Book Series Edited

Editor (with David Van Zanten, Wim de Wit, Joan Draper) of University of Chicago Press,

Chicago Architecture and Urbanism Series

12. Other Publishing Experience

Board of Advisors, Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn

publishers, 1998 to present

Board of Advisors, W. W. Norton and Company and Library of Congress, Visual Source Books

for American Architecture, Design and Engineering, 2000 to present

MUSEUM AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Participant in "Philadelphia: a Panorama of Civilization" Philadelphia, 1976 sponsored by AIA.

Selected materials for section on engineering shown at Drexel University and wrote short

text for accompanying booklet

Guest curator for exhibition "Holabird and Roche/Holabird and Root the First Two Generations"

Chicago Historical Society, Nov. 1980-May 1981

Co-Curator (With John Zukowsky) of "New Chicago Architecture: Beyond the International

Style," Art Institute of Chicago, May-Sept. 1983. Also wrote script for slide show

Author, slide show script for "Chicago and New York: Architectural Interactions," Art Institute

of Chicago, 1984

Co-Curator for show on recent southeast Asia work by Paul Rudolph for Art Institute of Chicago

at Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Chicago, Spring 1987.

Consultant for Museum of Science and Industry, Permanent Architectural Installation, 1986.

Advisory Board, Chicago Architecture Foundation, for television, exhibition and other events

on Chicago architecture in connection with centennial of Columbian Exposition, 1991-92

Consultant for "Put the City Up" exhibition organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and Harold Washington Library, Chicago, 1993

Consultant for Chicago Historical Society, Hedrich-Blessing project, 1994.

Advisory Committee, Architecture of Flight exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1995

Advisory Committee, Building for Space Travel, Art Institute of Chicago, 1997-98

Advisory Committee for exhibition on the Chicago Bungalow, Chicago Architecture Foundation,

2000 to present

CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTES ORGANIZED OR DIRECTED

Guest Director, Keynote Speaker and Moderator, "New Centers on the Periphery: The Case of

Four Texas Metropolitan Areas," Three day conference for University of Texas School of

Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design, March 4-6, 1991, Austin Texas. Commentary on this event appeared in Center Magazine.

Organizer, keynote speaker and summary, “The Exploding City: Urban Form, Development and

Design in South Florida,” for the University of Miami, Florida International University and

the Wolfsonian Institute. Day-long conference with presentations by geographers, historians, architects, planners, developers and public officials held at the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, March 22, 1997

Director, NEH Summer Institute, “The American City 1900-2000: Public and Private Realms”

To be held at the University of Illinois, July 1999. Guest faculty: Kenneth T. Jackson, Neil Harris, Carl Smith, Dolores Hayden, Mike Davis, M. Christine Boyer

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago Chapter, Vice President 1980-81

Society of Architectural Historians, Board of Directors, 1983-86

Chicago Architecture Club, Board of Directors, 1989-1992

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Board of Advisors, 1997-present

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Board of Trustees, 1998-present

MEMBERSHIPS

International Planning History Society

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois

Society of Architectural Historians

Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago

Society for American City and Regional Planning History

Society for Commercial Archeology

Chicago Architecture Club

Vernacular Architecture Forum

Urban Land institute

SELECTED LECTURES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

"Two American Hospitals in 1876" SAH annual meeting Philadelphia, May 1976

"American Innovations in Heating and Ventilating Technology, Society of Industrial Archaeology

annual meeting, Wilmington, Del., April 1977

"Late 18th century schemes for the Reconstruction of the Hotel Dieu in Paris," Midwest Art

History Society annual meeting, Urbana, Ill. March 1978

"The Stepped back skyscraper of the 1920s in Chicago" SAH annual meeting Madison,

Wisconsin, April 1980

"Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Competition," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,

May 1980

"Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root," American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter Nov.

1980

"The Temple, The Tower and the Metropolis of the 1920s" Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1981

"Contemporary Architecture: The City as the New Arcadia" SAH annual meeting, Victoria,

British Columbia, April 1981

Presentation "Lighting Chicago's Skyline" at Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne Press conference on

lighting buildings and sculpture June 1982

"The Marquette Building and the 'Chicago School,'" SAH annual meeting, Phoenix, April 1983

"Chicago Architecture," for Chicago Presidents' Organization, Chicago, Oct. 1986

Participant in American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Forum, "Looking for America"

Chicago, Oct. 1986

"Architecture in Chicago's South Suburbs," for Northeast Illinois Planning Commission

Conference, Harvey Ill., Feb. 1987

" Moscow, Berlin, Washington, Bismarck, Some Thoughts on Architecture and Politics in the

1930s" for North Dakota Historical Society, Bismarck, Oct. 1987

Moderator, session on Cityfront Center, for Chicago Chapter AIA, Jan. 1988

"Is Architecture Fundamentally different from Fashion Design?" for symposium on Post-

modernism sponsored by Design Forum, Houston, Feb. 1988

"High Tech, Broad Shoulders," Paul Angle Annual Endowed Lecture at the Chicago Historical

Society, Feb. 1988

Jury member. 25 Year Award. Chicago Chapter AIA, July 1988

Panelist, Ken Davis show on plans for remodeling John Hancock Building, WBEZ radio, Aug.

1988

Lecture on Contemporary Landscape for Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Purdue U. Sept. 1988

Session and Tour of Chicago suburbs organized for Society of Architectural Historians, Apr.

1988

Panel on landscape design for Chicago Architectural Club, April 1989

Panel Chair, Contemporary Boston architecture and Urbanism at Society of Architectural

Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, April 1989

Panel on Chicago in the 1920s, Bright New Cities program, Chicago, Nov. 1989

"Denise Scott Brown," for Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia University, New

York, March 1990

Organizer and Moderator, Panel on "Landscape Design," for Chicago Architecture Club, April

1990

Juror, Schiff Fellowships for students of architecture, Art Institute of Chicago, April 1990

Lecture on Chicago architecture for Friends of the Reunion des arts decoratives, Chicago, May

1990

"Chicago in the Late 19th Century" for "fin de siecle: construccio d'un scenographi urbani"

conference, Instituts d'Humanitas, Barcelona, Sept. 1990. One of 10 invited speakers from Europe, US

Critics Panel, Chicago Chapter AIA, October 1990

"Contemporary Art in the City" for Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, conference of public

art, May 1991

Organizer and Moderator, Panel on "The Industrial Park," for Chicago Architecture Club, April

1991

Keynote Speaker for conference "The American Suburb and Change," Highland Park, Illinois,

Nov. 1990

Speaker and panelist at conference "Art in the City," sponsored by Museum of Contemporary Art,

Chicago, and French Consulate, May 1991

"Teaching Architecture in the Early Grades," for University of Chicago Lab School, July 1991

Lecture on Chicago, Sister Cities conferences organized by Chicago Dept. of City Planning, July

1991

"The Center and the Park," for Texas Tech University, April 1992

Panel Chair, Design of Superhighways, Chicago Architecture Club, April 1992

Tour of Loop for Organization of American Historians, annual meeting, April 1992

Lecture on experiments in low cost housing between the wars at U. of Wisc. Milwaukee, Oct.

1992

Reader for publication grants competition, Getty Trust, Oct. 1992

Panelist on show on Chicago architecture, WBEZ radio, Dec. 1992

Panelist on "Chicago Tonight" show on contemporary architecture, WTTW television, Chicago,

Feb. 1993

"The Architecture of Money Making," for opening of Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibition

"Put the City Up," May 1993

"The Center and the Park," for Chicago Art History Colloquium, March 1993

Jury member, American Council of Learned Societies for Luce fellowships, March 1993

Reader for Scully Awards, Architecture History Foundation, April 1993

"The Park: Office and Industrial," for invited conference at UCLA on the American city, May

1993

"The Center and the Park," for Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Charleston,

SC, April 1993

"If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," for American Planning Association annual meeting, Chicago,

May 1993

"If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," Major presentation for AIA college of Fellows Seminar,

Annual meeting, American Institute of Architects, Chicago, June 1993

Panelist on show discussing future of Meigs Field airport, WTTW radio, August 1993

"If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," Keynote address for American Society of City and Regional

Planning History, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1993

Lecture on architecture of Paul Rudolph for Steelcase Partnership, Thomas Ruff Inc. Columbus

Ohio, March 1994

“The Strip Center” for Chicago Architecture Club meeting, Sept. 1994

Lecture on Public Buildings for Public Works Association annual meeting, Chicago, Sept. 1994

Panelist on WTTW television, Chicago Tonight show on designation of Arts Club of Chicago as a

historic landmark

Lectured on recent changes in North American city for seminar organized by IKEA North

America. Oak Park, Ill., Jan. 1995

Consultant for Perspectives Architecture and Design Videos for series of videos on the

architecture of Chicago 1992-present

Presented concluding remarks for Preserving the Recent Past conference, sponsored by National

Park Service, Chicago, April 1995

Presentation and panelist for session on preservation, AIA Chicago lecture series, Sept. 1995

Concluding remarks for Preserving Recent Landscapes conference, Wave Hill, New York, Nov.

1995

Panelist for conference on transit oriented design sponsored by Regional Transportation Authority

of Chicago and Urban Land Institute, Chicago Chapter, Nov. 1995

Lecture, “Pop Press,” for conference on Architectural Journalism at California College of Arts

and Crafts, San Francisco, Feb. 1997

Lecture, “Socialist Moscow and Capitalist Seaside: Why Reformers Can’t Fix Sprawl,” at

University of Notre Dame, April 1997

Keynote lecture on Chicago urban history, AIA Urban Design Conference, Chicago, September

1997

Lecture, “Chicago” for Rice Design Alliance, Houston, Oct. 1997

Lecture, “The Empire State Building” Museum of the City of New York, New York, Oct. 1997

Lecture, “Center and Periphery, Main Street and Mall,” Learning from Mall of American

Conference, University of Minnesota, Nov. 1997

Lecture, “Bashing the Suburbs,” at Andrews University, April 1998

Lecture, Los Angeles and the Politics of Urban History,” at Society of Architectural Historians

annual meeting, Los Angeles, April. 1998

Lecture, “The Politics of Urban Sprawl Reform,” at meeting of the International Planning History

Society, Sydney, Australia, forthcoming July 1998

Presentation and Panel, “Compact Development and the Pursuit of Density” for Land-Use

Planning for the 21^st Century, DeVoe L. Moore Center, Florida State University, March 2000

Lectures, “The Chicago Skyscraper: Another Look” and “Chicago Today: Lessons from the US

and Europe,” at Akadmie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna, May, 2000

Lecture, “Chicago Today: The Sprawling City,” for symposium at University of Hamburg, June

2000

Panelist, “How the Sprawl Debate Affects Architects,” for national American Institute of

Architects conference, Philadelphia, May 2000

Lecture, “The Sprawling City,” for The Next City conference, Yale University School of

Architecture, October 2000

Keynote Speaker, for symposium “Things in the Making,” at Museum of Modern Art, New York,

November 2000

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

Modern and contemporary architecture, urbanism and planning, landscape architecture

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Sprawl, book on urban decentralization, its benefits and efforts to stop it

The Architects and the Metropolis, Holabird & Root of Chicago 1919-1945, vol. 2 of

2-volume work on this major Chicago firm

Book on Walter Netsch, a life and times of one of the partners at the firm of Skidmore

Owings & Merrill

REFERENCES

Walter Creese

Prof. Emeritus, School of Architecture

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Thomas Hines

Professor, History Department

University of California at Los Angeles

Peter Hales

Professor, Art History Department

University of Illinois at Chicago

Gwendolyn Wright

Professor, School of Architecture

Columbia University

John Zukowsky

Curator, Architecture Department

Art Institute of Chicago

Alex Garvin

Adjunct Professor, Yale University

Member, New York Planning Commission