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Robert BruegmannArt History Department m/c 201 320 W. Oakdale #503 Education
University PositionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Community College
Philadelphia College of Art
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Architecture and Art History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Program in History, Theory and Criticism
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Preservation Program
Selected University Service
Other Professional Experience
Honors and Awards
PublicationsBooks writtenBenicia: 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 New York Times Book Review, Nov. 2, 1997, 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: A Compact History, University of Chicago Press, November, 2005. Reviews to be found on website at http://www.robertbruegmann.com The Architects and the Metropolis: Holabird & Root of Chicago 1919–1945 in preparation Book on the life and work of Walter Netsch, in preparation Books EditedA 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. Electronic PublicationsTraveling 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, co-founder (with Peter B. Hales) interactive World Wide Website including images and other data about the built environment of the Chicago metropolitan area allowing database searches and visual navigation via html image maps and 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. http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/ 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 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, 2002. “The Architect as Urbanist,” in Roberto de Alba editor, Paul Rudolph: The Late Work, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003 “Urban Density and Sprawl: An Historic Perspective,” in Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning for the 21st Century, edited by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley, Greenwood Press, 2001. “Built Environment,” one of approximately nineteen interpretive essays for James Grossman, Jan Reiff and Ann Durkin Keating, Eds., The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, publication expected 2004 “Architecture and Pragmatism: An Historian’s Perspective,” in Joan Ockman Editor, Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination, tentative title, Museum of Modern Art, Prestel Verlag, forthcoming, publication expected 2006 “Introduction” to Christopher Domin and Joseph King, Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. “The Myth of the Chicago School,” in Charles Waldheim and Katrerina Ruedi Ray, Chicago Architecture Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 15–29. Journal 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. “Land Use Regulation, House Prices and the New Social Contract” in Wharton Real Estate Review spring 2007. 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. “In Search of the Middle Class Landscape,” in Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, 2004. “The Aesthetics of Sprawl” in Andrew Blauvelt, Editor, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center and Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008 “Broadacre City and Sprawl,” in Multiple City. City Concepts 1908.2008. Catalog for Exhibition in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2008 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. “The End of Cities: An Urban Legend,” Wasington Post, Outlook Section, Nov. 25, 2001, p. 2. “LA The King of Sprawl? Not at All,” Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 2005 Magazine Issues edited(With Roberta Feldman) “Affordable Housing” issue of Inland Architect, Sept. 1993. Reviews EssaysMichel Foucault et al, Les machines a guérir: à 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 the American Planning Association, forthcoming Newspaper and magazine essays and Op-Ed pieces“Urban Myths: Sprawl gets a bad press but it has given us privacy, mobility and choice” in The Guardian (London), Jan. 28, 2006 L.A. , the king of sprawl? Not at all” in Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2005 “Poor Misunderstood Sprawl,” in New York Times, July 9, 2006 “Gridlock, schmidlock: LA traffic isn’t as bad as you think. Try driving 60 mph through the center of Paris” in Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2006 “A Defense of Sprawl,” California Builder, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 16-18. Series of five pieces for Los Angeles Times “Dust-Up.” A week-long “debate” public transportation advocate Gloria Ohland published in the paper Monday through Friday, during the week of June 18, 2007. “In Defense of Sprawl” Forbes.com June 2007 Forwards and IntroductionsForward to Let's Build: Why We Need Five Million New Homes Over the Next Ten Years, By James Heartfield, Audacity, 2006 Interviews and Other publicationsVarious articles in the Christian Science Monitor, Preservation News, 11593 and other publications "New Centers on the Periphery," Interview between Robert Bruegmann and Tim Davis in Center “The Twenty Three Percent Solution,” Invited comment on “Bold New City or Built up ‘Burb? Interview in ACREL News Dec. 2007 (American College of Real Estate Lawyers) Interview “Robert Bruegmann y la expansion urbana: Lejos del Apocalipsis,” with Hector Soto and Alexander Galetovic in Estudios Publicos, journal of the Centro de Estudios Publicos, Santiago de Chile, No. 111, Winter 2008. Book Series EditedEditor (with David Van Zanten, Wim de Wit, Joan Draper) of University of Chicago Press, Chicago Architecture and Urbanism Series. Volumes in series to date:
Museum and Curatorial ServiceParticipant 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. 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, Advisory Committee for exhibition “1945,” Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture Advisor for exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Walker Art Center and Conferences and Institutes Organized or DirectedGuest 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” University of Illinois, July 1999. Guest faculty: Kenneth T. Jackson, Neil Harris, Carl Smith, Dolores Hayden, Mike Davis, M. Christine Boyer Organizer (with with Margaret Strobel and David Sokol) events marking the 100th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Art and Craft of the Machine Speech including reading of the speech at the Chicago Cultural Center by Sidney Robinson with commentary by Paul Goldberg and conference on architecture and the machine at University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2001. Co-convenor (with Chris Silver, University of Florida) International Planning History Biennial meeting in Chicago, July 2008. Handled intellectual content and logistics of conference of approximately 400 individuals from around the world. Community ServiceActive 2003 to present with group including Civic Committee of Chicago Commercial Club, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago Historical Society, Neighborhood Services of Chicago and various community groups in a project to encourage re-investment in the community of North Lawndale in Chicago through the use of historic heritage. Activities of group to date include Art History/Planning seminar at UIC on Preservation and Economic Redevelpment using Lawndale as case study (taught by myself and Brent Ryan in Planning), creation of Historic Greystone Initiative run by Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Exhibition for Chicago Architecture Foundation, held 2006, architectural competition run by the Chicago Architectural Club, creation of Lawndale Heritage, a non-profit community organization.
Active since 2005 in effort to create Public Housing Museum in last remaining building of the Jane Addams housing project and since 2007 member Steering Committee. Other Professional Service
Memberships
Selected Lectures and Other Professional ActivitiesLecturer, "Two American Hospitals in 1876" SAH annual meeting Philadelphia, May 1976 Lecturer, "American Innovations in Heating and Ventilating Technology, Society of Industrial Archaeology annual meeting, Wilmington, Del., April 1977 Lecturer, "Late 18th century schemes for the Reconstruction of the Hotel Dieu in Paris," Midwest Art History Society annual meeting, Urbana, Ill. March 1978 Lecturer, "The Stepped back skyscraper of the 1920s in Chicago" SAH annual meeting Madison, Lecturer, "Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Competition," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 1980 Lecturer, "Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root," American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter Nov. 1980 Lecturer, "The Temple, The Tower and the Metropolis of the 1920s" Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1981 Lecturer, "Contemporary Architecture: The City as the New Arcadia" SAH annual meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, April 1981 Lecturer, "Lighting Chicago's Skyline" presentation at Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne Press conference on lighting buildings and sculpture June 1982 Lecturer, "The Marquette Building and the 'Chicago School,'" SAH annual meeting, Phoenix, April 1983 Lecturer, "Chicago Architecture," for Chicago Presidents' Organization, Chicago, Oct. 1986 Participant in American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Forum, "Looking for America" Lecturer, "Architecture in Chicago's South Suburbs," for Northeast Illinois Planning Commission Lecturer, " 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 Lecturer, "Is Architecture Fundamentally different from Fashion Design?" for symposium on Lecturer, "High Tech, Broad Shoulders," Paul Angle Annual Endowed Lecture at the Chicago Jury member. 25 Year Award. Chicago Chapter AIA, July 1988 Panelist, Ken Davis show on plans for remodeling John Hancock Building, WBEZ radio, Aug. Lecturer on Contemporary Landscape for Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Purdue U. Sept. 1988 Organizer and Leader, Session and Tour of Chicago suburbs for Society of Architectural Panelist on landscape design for Chicago Architectural Club, April 1989 Panel Chair, Contemporary Boston architecture and Urbanism at Society of Architectural Panelist on Chicago in the 1920s, Bright New Cities program, Chicago, Nov. 1989 Lecturer, "Denise Scott Brown," for Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia Organizer and Moderator, Panel on "Landscape Design," for Chicago Architecture Club, April Juror, Schiff Fellowships for students of architecture, Art Institute of Chicago, April 1990 Lecturer on Chicago architecture for Friends of the Reunion des arts decoratives, Chicago, May Lecturer, "Chicago in the Late 19th Century" for "fin de siècle: construccio d'un scenographi Critics Panel, Chicago Chapter AIA, October 1990 Lecturer, "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 Keynote Speaker for conference "The American Suburb and Change," Highland Park, Illinois, Speaker and panelist at conference "Art in the City," sponsored by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and French Consulate, May 1991 Lecturer, "Teaching Architecture in the Early Grades," for University of Chicago Lab School, Lecturer on Chicago, Sister Cities conferences organized by Chicago Dept. of City Planning, July Lecturer, "The Center and the Park," for Texas Tech University, April 1992 Panel Chair, Design of Superhighways, Chicago Architecture Club, April 1992 Organizer and Leader, Tour of Loop for Organization of American Historians, annual meeting, Lecturer on experiments in low cost housing between the wars at U. of Wisc. Milwaukee, Oct. 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, Lecturer, "The Architecture of Money Making," for opening of Chicago Architecture Foundation Lecturer, "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 Lecturer, "The Park: Office and Industrial," for invited conference at UCLA on the American city, May 1993 Lecturer, "The Center and the Park," for Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Lecturer, "If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," for American Planning Association annual meeting, Chicago, May 1993 Lecturer, "If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," Major presentation for AIA college of Fellows Panelist on show discussing future of Meigs Field airport, WTTW radio, August 1993 Lecturer, "If Burnham Came to Schaumburg," Keynote address for American Society of City and Lecturer on architecture of Paul Rudolph for Steelcase Partnership, Thomas Ruff Inc. Columbus Lecturer, “The Strip Center” for Chicago Architecture Club meeting, Sept. 1994 Lecturer 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 Lecturer on recent changes in North American city for seminar organized by IKEA North Consultant for Perspectives Architecture and Design Videos for series of videos on the Presenter, concluding remarks for Preserving the Recent Past conference, sponsored by National Percentage and panelist for session on preservation, AIA Chicago lecture series, Sept. 1995 Presenter, concluding remarks for Preserving Recent Landscapes conference, Wave Hill, New Panelist for conference on transit oriented design sponsored by Regional Transportation Authority of Chicago and Urban Land Institute, Chicago Chapter, Nov. 1995 Lecturer, “Pop Press,” for conference on Architectural Journalism at California College of Arts Lecturer, “Socialist Moscow and Capitalist Seaside: Why Reformers Can’t Fix Sprawl,” at Keynote lecturer on Chicago urban history, AIA Urban Design Conference, Chicago, September Lecturer, “Chicago” for Rice Design Alliance, Houston, Oct. 1997 Lecturer, “The Empire State Building” Museum of the City of New York, New York, Oct. 1997 Lecturer, “Center and Periphery, Main Street and Mall,” Learning from Mall of American Lecturer, “Bashing the Suburbs,” at Andrews University, April 1998 Lecturer, “Los Angeles and the Politics of Urban History,” at Society of Architectural Historians Lecturer, “The Politics of Urban Sprawl Reform,” at meeting of the International Planning Presenter and Panelist, “Compact Development and the Pursuit of Density” for Land-Use Lecturer, “The Chicago Skyscraper: Another Look” and “Chicago Today: Lessons from the US Lecturer, “Chicago Today: The Sprawling City,” for symposium at University of Hamburg, June Panelist, (with Thomas Fischer and Michael Gallis) “How the Sprawl Debate Affects Architects,” for American Institute of Architects annual national conference, Philadelphia, May 2000 Lecturer, “The Sprawling City,” for “The Next City” conference, Yale University School of Keynote Speaker, for symposium “Things in the Making,” on Pragmatism in Architecture at Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 2000 Lecturer, Activism and Mobility in the Global City, conference sponsored by Smithsonian Speaker, “Preservation and the Movements of the 1960s” at James Marston Fitch annual Consultant, Smithsonian Institution, for “America on the Move,” Permanent exhibition for the Panelist, (with Sam Staley, moderator- Alan Ehrenhalt), Contrarians and Sprawl session at Lecturer, “Sprawl” at the Eidgenossiche Technisches Hochschule, School of Architecture, Zurich, May 2001 Participant, Film and Website material preparation, on Columbus Park for Cultural History Consultant, Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Library Archives, for Mellon Lecturer, “Chicago Frame” for “Chicago is History” Conference sponsored by the School of Chairman, Spiro Kostof Award selection committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2001- Lecturer, “Sprawl” at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. November, 2001 Panelist (with Katherine Solomonson and Blair Kamin), radio show on Chicago architecture, Seminar leader, “Aesthetics” for Executive Leadership Seminar, United States Air Force Academy, Feb. 2002 Lecture, “Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and the Design of the US Air Force Academy, public lecture at US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Feb. 2002 Chairman, Nominations Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2003-04 Panelist and Moderator, Great Conversations, University of Chicago Harris School with Keynote Address and Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture, Yale University conference on Louis Panel on New Urbanists and Libertarians at the Congress for the New Urbanism, Chicago, June 2004 Lecture, “Fighting Sprawl in Postwar Chicago, Paris and Moscow, at the biennial meeting of the International Planning History Society, Barcelona, June 2004 Panelist for conference on suburbia (with Kenneth Jackson, Dolores Hayden, Adam Rome) at the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University, Oct. 2004 Lecture “Sprawl: A Compact History” at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, Nov. 2004 Lecture for Martin Center, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge, England, “Sprawl: a Compact History, Jan. 2005 Lecture for public symposium on Cities and Mobility for the School of Architecture, Eidgenossiche Technisches Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Jan. 2005. Lecture on Sprawl for Parsons/New School, New York, April 2005 Lecture on early buildings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for SOM, April 2005 Gallery Talk for Art Institute of Chicago, Suburbanization and Exurbanization in connection with Department of Architecture show 1945, May 2005 Presentation on Sprawl to University of Chicago Workshop on the Built Environment, May 2005 Presentation (with Brent Ryan) on Lawndale activities at Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Coral Gables, Oct. 2005 Presentation, “Transportation and Cities” for the Mayor’s Institute, Chicago, Dec. 2005 Presentation on sprawl book for conference on the New Ruralism, Tallahassee, Dec. 2005 Presentation on Sprawl for book launch at Graham Foundation, Chicago, December 2005 Lecture on Sprawl at the School of Architecture, University of Cincinnati, Jan. 2006 Presentation on Sprawl, Tucson Institute of Contemporary Art, Feb. 2006 Lecture on Walter Netsch, University of Iowa, Feb. 2006 Lecture on Walter Netsch, Grinnell College, Feb. 2006 Presentation on Sprawl, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago Feb. 2006 Presentation on Naperville and Sprawl, North Central College, Naperville, Feb. 2006 Plenary Talk for Canadian Homebuilders annual conference, Lake Louise, Alberta, Feb. 2006 Talk on Walter Netsch for Northwestern University symposium on Netsch, March 2006 Presentation on sprawl for Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, respondent Bruce Katz, Brookings Institute, March 2006 Presentation on Sprawl for US Department of Homeland Security, National Fire Administration, Keynote address for conference “On the Waterfront,” Yale University School of Architecture, Apr. 2006 Presentation on sprawl for City Planning Department, Amsterdam, May 2006 Presentation on sprawl for Dutch national ministry for Planning, Housing and the Environment, The Hague, May 2006 Presentation on sprawl for City Planning Department, Rotterdam, May 2006 Presentation on sprawl for Institute for Spatial Research, The Hague, May 2006 Keynote talk for conference on cities and mobility, Aarhus School of Architecture, May 2006 Presentation for New Mexico Chapter, National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, Albuquerque, July 2006 Panel on sprawl at annual meeting of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Providence, June 2006 Presentation for Blakely Institute, University of California at Riverside, June 2006 Presentation for Urban Development Institute of Ontario Presentation for meeting sponsored by Lambda Alpha and Urban Development Institute of Ontario, Toronto, June 2006 Presentation for City of Brampton Plan Review Process, Brampton, ONT, June 2006 Presentation for American Dream Conference, Atlanta, Sept. 2006 Presentation for Municipal Arts Society (response by Alexander Garvin and Eugenie Birch) New York, Oct. 2003 Keynote address to conference on housing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Oct. 2006 Presentation to City of Saskatoon, SA, Community Planning Event, Nov. 2006 Panel on Sprawl: A Compact History at Social Science Historical Association, Nov. 2006 Presentation to Metro Transportation Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Jan 07 Presentation for Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, Jan. 07 Presentation for Commonwealth Club of California, San Jose, Jan. 07 Presentation for Urban Planning Colloquium, U. of California at Berkeley, Jan. 07 Presentation for alumni organization, Urban Planning program, UIC, Jan. 07 Presentation for The American Experiment, Minneapolis Feb. 07 Presentation for Northeastern University School of Presentation, panel and Master Class for Cityscape Presentation for History, Theory and Criticism colloquium, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Mar. 07 Presentation and Panel for Rocky Mountain Land Use Presentation for Fortnightly Club, Chicago, Mar 07 Presentation and Panel for American College of Real Estate Lawyers, San Diego, Mar. 07 Presentation for Tongji University, Shanghai, Apr. 07 Lecture for seminar series, University of Hong Kong, Apr. 07 Public Lecture and presentation for Environmental History Breakfast, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Apr. 07 Lecture at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Apr. 07 Participant in invited conference America Next: Toward Consensus on the Future of the Built Environment, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Apr. 07 Lecture for Potpourri series, Art Institute of Chicago. May 07 Presentation for conference: All Planned Out: The Worldwide Impact of the British Town and Country Planning System sponsored by audacity.org, London, May 07 Participate on panel for American Institute of Keynote Presentation at conference on Access to Destinations conference, University of Minnesota, Aug. 07 Keynote speaker for “Chicagoland” Tearing down its suburban heritage” on tear-downs, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation Apr. 08. Lecture at Hammond, Beeby Babka on Harry Weese Lecture, June 08 Presentation on “Paul Rudolph the Late Works” for conference Paul Rudolph Reconsidered at Yale University School of Architecture, Jan. 2009 Presentation on panel (with William Rees) on sprawl and sustainability for De Lange Conference VII, Rice University, Transforming the Metropolis: Creating Sustainable and Humane Cities, Houston, March 2009. Presentation on sprawl at program sponsored by the Elmhurst Museum, City of Elmhurst and Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, at the Elmhurst Museum, Mar. 2009 Lecture on Harry Weese at UIC School of Architecture lecture series, Mar. 2009 Selected Recent Appearances on Televison, Radio, other Media (last several years only)July 06 KZSB Santa Barbara, on sprawl Jan. 07 KQED, San Francisco (member of panel on suburbia in connection with exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art) Apr. 07 Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison, WI, on sprawl July 07 WIBA Talk Radio, Madison, WI, on sprawl Aug. 07 National Public Radio, Tell me More, on new immigrant communities Sept. 07 WCPN Cleveland, interview about sprawl Nov. 07 WGN Radio, Noon show with Bob Sirott, Chicago on expanding Chicago suburbs Feb. 08 Wisconsin Public Radio, To the Best of Our Knowledge, on issues related to sprawl Oct. 08, appeared in Memorial Stadium, True Illinoi Spirit, hour long documentary on Illinois Stadium, University of Illinois at Champaign, WILL-TV. July 08 WBEZ on sustainability and suburbs Mar. 09 WBEZ, commentary on Richard Florida discussion about the suburbs Field of SpecializationModern and contemporary architecture, urbanism and planning, landscape architecture |
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