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Robert BruegmannArt History Department m/c 201 1815 N. Orchard Street #7 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 A Compact History of Sprawl, forthcoming, spring 2005, University of Chicago Press The Architects and the Metropolis: Holabird & Root of Chicago 1919–1945 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 2002 “Introduction” to Christopher Domin and Joseph King, Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. Various articles in the Christian Science Monitor, Preservation News, 11593 and other publications 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: Joseph Connors, The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright Joseph Siry, Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store, John W. Stamper, Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White Robert Bruegmann, The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago Joseph Bigott, From Cottage to Bungalow, Houses and the Working Class in Chicago, 1869–1929 Joseph Siry, The Auditorium Building: Chicago’s Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City Other Publishing ExperienceBoard of Advisors, Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn publishers, 1998 to publication in 2004 Board of Advisors (with Ford Peatross and David DeLong), W. W. Norton and Company and Library of Congress, Visual Source Books for American Architecture, Design and Engineering, 2000 to present Editorial Board, E & FN Spon, Planning, History and the Environment Series, 2001 to present 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. 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— Advisory Committee for exhibition “1945,” Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture and Design, 2001— 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 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, Wisconsin, April 1980 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” Chicago, Oct. 1986 Lecturer, “Architecture in Chicago’s South Suburbs,” for Northeast Illinois Planning Commission Conference, Harvey Ill., Feb. 1987 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 Post-modernism sponsored by Design Forum, Houston, Feb. 1988 Lecturer, “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 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 Historians, Apr. 1988 Panelist 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 Panelist on Chicago in the 1920s, Bright New Cities program, Chicago, Nov. 1989 Lecturer, “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 Lecturer on Chicago architecture for Friends of the Reunion des arts decoratives, Chicago, May 1990 Lecturer, “Chicago in the Late 19th Century” for “fin de siècle: 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 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 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 Lecturer, “Teaching Architecture in the Early Grades,” for University of Chicago Lab School, July 1991 Lecturer on Chicago, Sister Cities conferences organized by Chicago Dept. of City Planning, July 1991 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, April 1992 Lecturer 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 Lecturer, “The Architecture of Money Making,” for opening of Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibition “Put the City Up,” May 1993 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, Charleston, SC, April 1993 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 Seminar, Annual meeting, American Institute of Architects, Chicago, June 1993 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 Regional Planning History, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1993 Lecturer on architecture of Paul Rudolph for Steelcase Partnership, Thomas Ruff Inc. Columbus Ohio, March 1994 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 America. Oak Park, Ill., Jan. 1995 Consultant for Perspectives Architecture and Design Videos for series of videos on the architecture of Chicago 1992— Presenter, concluding remarks for Preserving the Recent Past conference, sponsored by National Park Service, Chicago, April 1995 Presentater and panelist for session on preservation, AIA Chicago lecture series, Sept. 1995 Presenter, 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 Lecturer, “Pop Press,” for conference on Architectural Journalism at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Feb. 1997 Lecturer, “Socialist Moscow and Capitalist Seaside: Why Reformers Can’t Fix Sprawl,” at University of Notre Dame, April 1997 Keynote lecturer on Chicago urban history, AIA Urban Design Conference, Chicago, September 1997 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 Conference, University of Minnesota, Nov. 1997 Lecturer, “Bashing the Suburbs,” at Andrews University, April 1998 Lecturer, “Los Angeles and the Politics of Urban History,” at Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Los Angeles, April. 1998 Lecturer, “The Politics of Urban Sprawl Reform,” at meeting of the International Planning History Society, Sydney, Australia, Presenter and Panelist, “Compact Development and the Pursuit of Density” for Land-Use Planning for the 21st Century, DeVoe L. Moore Center, Florida State University, March 2000 Lecturer, “The Chicago Skyscraper: Another Look” and “Chicago Today: Lessons from the US and Europe,” at Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna, May, 2000 Lecturer, “Chicago Today: The Sprawling City,” for symposium at University of Hamburg, June 2000 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 Architecture, October 2000 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 Institution and Automobile Club of Southern California at USC, December 2000 Organizer (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. Speaker, “Preservation and the Movements of the 1960s” at James Marston Fitch annual colloquium, Columbia University, March 2001 Consultant, Smithsonian Institution, for “America on the Move,” Permanent exhibition for the Museum of History and Technology, Washington, 2000–2001 Panelist, (with Sam Staley, moderator- Alan Ehrenhalt), Contrarians and Sprawl session at American Planning Association annual meeting, New Orleans, March 2001 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 Foundation, 2001 Consultant, Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Library Archives, for Mellon Foundation grant proposal, 2001–2002 Lecturer, “Chicago Frame” for “Chicago is History” Conference sponsored by the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2001 Chairman, Spiro Kostof Award selection committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2001–2002 Lecturer, “Sprawl” at Wesleyan University, November, 2001 Panelist (with Katherine Solomonson and Blair Kamin), radio show on Chicago architecture, WGN radio, Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg, 1 Feb. 2002. 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 Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and Alex Krieger, Jan. 2004 Keynote Address and Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture, Yale University conference on Louis Kahn, Jan. 2004 Field of SpecializationModern and contemporary architecture, urbanism and planning, landscape architecture Publications in ProgressThe 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 Sprawl: The Way We Live Now, manuscript for a popular book to accompany more scholarly work The Compact History of Sprawl Book on Harry Weese to be published by W. W. Norton, tentatively scheduled for 2006 |
