ROBERT BRUEGMANN
                                                         CURRICULUM VITAE

Art History Department m/c 201
University of Illinois at Chicago
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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
 

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

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 

Geographic Information System (GIS).  Funding from office of  the Vice 
President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois,  NEH and other 
sources.  Site inaugurated 1996.  Present location of server at City Design 
Center, University of Illinois at Chicago but site being transfered to 
University of Illinois at Chicago library. 
 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, expected 1998 

The Paradoxes of Urban Sprawl Reform, forthcoming in Robert Freestone, 
(ed.) The Twentieth 
Century Urban Planning Experience: Historical Perspectives, forthcoming, 
Routledge 
 

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 

^ÓAirport City,^Ô 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 ^ÑBurb? 
 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 
 

11. Book Series Edited: 

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

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 
 

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 
 
 

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 
in 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 

Lecture, Socialist Moscow and Capitalist Seaside:  Why Reformers Can't Fi 
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 
 
 

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:

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 
 

MEMBERSHIPS: 

College Art Association 
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 
 

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION: 

Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism, landscape architecture
 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: 

The low density middle class city 
Critical attitudes and theory in contemporary landscape design 
 

PUBLICATIONS  IN PROGRESS: 

Book-length  essay on decentralization of American cities today 
Book on Walter Netsch, a life and times of one of the partners at the firm 
of Skidmore 
 Owings & Merrill 

 

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