UIC: Department of Art History, Faculty

Robin Schuldenfrei

Department of Art History (M/C 201)
Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
FAX: (312) 413-2460
schul@uic.edu

[image: at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, PA]

Education

Ph.D., History and Theory of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2008.
Dissertation: "Luxury and Modern Architecture in Germany, 1900-1933."
M.A. History and Theory of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2003.
M.A. History of Art and Architecture, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, 2000.
B.A. History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, 1995 with honors.
Areas of Specialization: History of the Object, Interior Architecture and Design, 19th Century Architecture, 20th Century Architecture, German Modernism, Architectural Theory.

Publications

Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism. Edited volume by Robin Schuldenfrei and Jeffrey Saletnik (London: Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2009). "Introduction" and essay "The Irreproducibilty of the Bauhaus Object" therein.

"Luxus, Produktion, Reproduktion," (Luxury, Production, Reproduction) in Die Bauhaus-Moderne und ihre Mythen (Bauhaus Modernism and its Myths). Ed. Anja Baumhoff and Magdalena Droste (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2009).

Review of Jill Pearlman, American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007) for Design & Culture (Fall 2009).

"The Bauhaus and the Bürger," Chicago Art Journal, Special Issue on "Consumption." Volume 17, Spring 2007, pp. 2-35.

Design~Recline: Modern Architecture and the Mid-Century Chaise Longue, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Number 40, 2004.

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts Research Prize, 2008, for research in Germany.
Harvard University, Graduate Society Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2007-2008.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Carter Manny Award program, Citation of Special Recognition, 2007.
Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Graduate Summer Travel Grant, 2007.
Society of Architectural Historians, SAH Junior Annual Meeting Fellowship, 2007, to deliver a paper at the Society of Architectural Historians' 60th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, April 11-15, 2007.
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst), Graduate Scholarship, 2006-2007, for dissertation research in Berlin (granted 2005, deferred).
Harvard University, Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, 2005-2006, for dissertation research in Berlin.
ADM-HEA Student Bursary, The Art Design Media Subject Centre, Brighton, England, 2005, to present paper at The Annual Design History Conference, London, England.
New England AICA (International Associations of Art Critics), 2005 awards, "Design~Recline" exhibition awarded second place in the "Best Architecture or Design Show" category for 2004.
NEMA (New England Museum Association) design competition, 2005 awards, "Design~Recline" exhibition publication awarded second place.
Harvard University, Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2005.
Harvard University, Graduate Society Fellowship, Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Award, 2004.
Harvard University, Graduate Student Council, Summer Research Grant for dissertation research, 2003.
Northeastern University, Honorable Mention, Effective or Innovative Use of Technology in Teaching, "19th Century Architecture and Urbanism," 2003.
Harvard University, Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, "Landmarks of World Architecture," 2002.
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 2002-2003.
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst), Language Fellowship to attend the Goethe Institute, Berlin, 2002.
Harvard University, Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, 2002, for summer research travel.
Society of Architectural Historians, John Coolidge Student Fellowship, 2002, for summer research travel.
Kress Foundation Scholarship to attend the Attingham Summer School in England, Summer 2001.

Exhibitions

Curator, Design~Recline: Modern Architecture and the Mid-Century Chaise Longue. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, (March 20, 2004 through June 21, 2004).

Conferences and Sessions organized

Session chair, Anxious Dwelling / Postwar Spaces. Association of Art Historians, 36th AAH Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, April 15-17, 2010.

Session chair, Benjamin's Objects. College Art Association, Design Studies Forum Special Session, Los Angeles, CA, February 25-28, 2009.

Conference co-organizer, Bauhaus Palimpsest: The Object of Discourse. Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, March 14-15, 2008.

Conference Papers, Symposium Papers, and Public Lectures

"Contra the Großstadt: Mies van der Rohe’s Interiority." (Kontra die Großstadt: Mies van der Rohes Interiorität.) Paper for section: Das Interieur—Kunstorte, Wissensräume, Lebeswelten, Erster Schweizerischer Kongress für Kunstgeschichte (First Swiss Congress for Art History), Bern, Switzerland, September 2-4, 2010.

"Bauhaus at War." Conference paper, Global Bauhaus, (held in conjunction with the exhibition Modell Bauhaus / Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model), Berlin and Dessau, September 21-26, 2009 (invited participant).

"The Metropolis and the Modern Dweller: Luxury, Interiority and the Architecture of Mies van der Rohe." Public lecture, Art History Division, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, February 4, 2009.

"The Werkbund and the Display Window: Visual Cultures of Luxury and Modernism." Paper for session: Changing Visual Economies in German Culture and Theory during the Early Twentieth Century, German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN, October 2-5, 2008.
Commentator for session: Cultural Appropriation in the Visual Arts, German Studies Association.

"Mies van der Rohe and Weimar Interiority." Paper for session: "The Limits of Community" — Bourgeois and Middle-Class Modernism in German Architecture from c.1900 to 1940, Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Cincinnati, OH, April 23-27, 2008.

"Luxury, Production, Reproduction." Conference paper, Die Bauhaus-Moderne und ihre Mythen (Bauhaus Modernism and its Myths), Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, November 15-17, 2007 (invited participant).

"Industry, Kauflust and the AEG." Paper for session: Factory-Made: Historic Intersections of Architecture and Industry, Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, PA, April 13, 2007.

"The Harmonious Impress of the Dwellers Within: Domestic Architecture and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie in New York City, 1880-1900." Invited public lecture, Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL, February 21, 2007.

"Incremental Modernism in the American Home: Russel Wright's American Modern." Conference paper, Locating Design 2005, The Design History Society Annual Conference, London, England, September 7, 2005.

"Decorative Arts and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna." Gallery talk for exhibition: "As though my body were naught but ciphers": Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, February 27, 2005.

"Pattern, Color, Texture: Sampling the Collection." Gallery talk in series: Close-Up: Study Room Collections in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, February 5, 2003.

"The New Stones of Berlin: Recent Architecture and Restoration." Public lecture, Director's Night, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Boston, MA, December 5, 2002.

"Bauhütten in Weimar: Walter Gropius, Utopian Visions for Postwar Germany, and a Retreat from Modernism." Symposium paper, Modern Means, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, NY, April 19, 2002.

"Collections and Collecting at Home and Abroad: Evergreen and Hampton." Symposium paper, American Interiors, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE, May 11, 2001.

"Chic Peak and the Social Infrastructure of Architectural Amenities, the Rise and Fall of Bath, c. 1700-1800." Symposium paper, Dichotomies: Transgressing the Borders of Art History, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, March 9-10, 2001.

"Living Up to Our Gloves: Anxious Etiquette and the Victorian Lady." Public lecture, Victorian Art and Culture Lecture Series, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, November 8, 2000.

"Etiquette, Anxiety, and Artistry: An Art Nouveau Glove Box." Symposium paper, Ninth Annual Symposium on the Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NY, NY, April 7, 2000

Teaching

University of Illinois at Chicago. College of Architecture and the Arts, Department of Art History

Assistant Professor, 2007-.

Harvard University. Graduate School of Design, Department of Architecture.

Lecturer, "History of Architecture: Antiquity to Baroque," Summer 2004, 2005.
Lecturer, "History of Architecture: Enlightenment to Post-Modernism," Summer 2004, 2005.

Boston Architectural College.

Instructor, Seminar: "The Modern Interior," Summer 2005.

Northeastern University. Department of Architecture.

Lecturer, "19th Century Architecture and Urbanism," Fall 2003.

Harvard University. Graduate School of Design, Department of Architecture.

Teaching Fellow, "Buildings, Texts and Contexts," regular and intensive reading sections, 2003-2005.

Harvard University. Department of Art History.

Head Teaching Fellow, "Landmarks of World Architecture," Fall 2002.

Williams College. Department of Art.

Teaching Assistant, "20th Century Architecture," Fall 1999.
Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to Art History," Fall 1998 - Spring 1999.

Brown University. History of Art and Architecture Department.

Teaching Assistant, "20th Century Architecture," Fall 1994.

Related Professional Activities and Affiliations

Plan Commisson, City of Evanston, IL, 2007-2009.

Chair, Graduate Student Roundtable, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 11-15, 2007.

Volunteer Coordinator, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, April 14-18, 2004.

Organizer, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th Annual Student Symposium, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Cambridge, MA, March 16, 2002; April 5, 2003; February 28, 2004; February 12, 2005.

Student Liaison to the Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Boston, MA, Fall 2001-2005.

Membership: Society of Architectural Historians, national and local chapter; College Art Association, Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois.

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