| Eduard
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the Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art, Emeritus, Professor of
Architecture, Emeritus. Sekler was the founding Director of the Carpenter
Center for Visual Arts. He is a member of the advisory commission
of the Austrian Historic Monuments Office and was an UNESCO consultant,
and co-founder of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust which he
chaired 1990-1996. He has taught at the Vienna Technical University,
at Washington University, St. Louis, and at the University of Florida
at Gainesville as the first incumbent of the Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished
Chair in Architectural Preservation. He has published widely and his
architectural work includes several housing schemes and the restoration
of historic buildings in Austria. As a historic conservation consultant
he has worked in Bhutan, India, Nepal and Thailand. He has been awarded
AIA Institute Honors, the Jean Tschumi Prize by the International
Union of Architects and a Honorary Doctorate by the ETH Zurich.
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| Mardges
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Matthews Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Architecture
at Northeastern University. She is the author of Le Corbusier
in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid (2001) and Ernest Flagg:
Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer (1986). In conjunction
with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
at Columbia University, she served as editor of ‘Symbolic Essence’
and Other Writings on Modern Architecture, Art, and American Culture
by William H. Jordy. Bacon has been the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and grants from the Graham Foundation. She has served
as an Associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
(CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and a Director
of the Society of Architectural Historians. |
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been architecture critic of The Boston Globe since 1973. He writes
criticism, news stories, opinion pieces and feature articles about
all aspects of the built environment, as well as a monthly Sunday
column, “Cityscapes,” in which he compares new and old
views of Boston scenes. Campbell’s work has received awards
including a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts (1976), the medal for criticism of the American Institute of
Architects (1980) and the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism
(1996). Campbell is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College,
where he majored in English literature. He has a master’s
in journalism from Columbia and a master’s in architecture from
Harvard, where he was awarded the Appleton Traveling Fellowship and
Kelley thesis prize. He helped found, and is now an advisor to, the
Mayors Institute for City Design, which brings together mayors, designers
and other experts to try to solve city problems. He is a fellow of
the American Institute of Architects and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. |
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| Xavier
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currently Dean of the Elisava School of Design at Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, in Barcelona. He also directs the Metropolis Graduate
Program in Architecture at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.
As an architect, scholar and critic, Xavier Costa is also known for
his curatorial work for the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation
in Barcelona. He was recently visiting professor at the Architectural
Association, London, and has also taught at Columbia University, University
of Pennsylvania, the Berlage Institute, and the Metropolis Graduate
Program in Architecture, Barcelona. He is the editor of the
catalogue Sert: Architect in New York (1997) and a forthcoming book
on Josep Lluís Sert. |
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| Kenneth
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born in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association
School of Architecture, London. He is currently Ware Professor
at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University, New York. He has taught at a number of
leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of
Art in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam,
the EPFL in Lausanne, and most recently, the Accademia di Architettura
in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He has also served on many international
juries for architectural awards and building commissions. His
writings include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980), Studies
in Tectonic Culture (1995), Le Corbusier (2001) and Labour, Work and
Architecture (2002). |
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| Timothy
Hyde |
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is
an architect and a PhD candidate in the Theory and History of Architecture
at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He received
his BA in Architecture and English Literature from Yale University
and his MArch from Princeton University. He has taught design
studio and architectural history at Northeastern University and has
practiced architecture in New York, Cambridge, and Saigon. He
is also Assistant Editor of the CASE book series published by Prestel.
His doctoral research examines concepts and representations of civic
space in architectural and urban projects in Cuba between 1945 and
1960. |
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| Huson
Jackson |
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is
a founding partner of Sert, Jackson & Gourley. Jackson received
his undergraduate education at Stanford University and the University
of Chicago. He then worked for Charles Eames before studying
at Harvard where he received his Bachelors and Masters in Architecture.
He established private practice in Boston and New York and taught
at several universities including Columbia, Pratt Institute, and Harvard
where he was appointed Professor of Architecture in 1958, the year
he established the professional partnership with Sert and Gourley.
He is author of A Guide to New York Architecture (1650-1952) (1952). |
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Professor in Practice of Urban Design and Chairman of the Department
of Urban Planning and Design. He is a founding principal of
Chan Krieger & Associates. The firm’s work has received
prizes in eight national competitions, two Progressive Architecture
awards and thirteen AIA awards. An authority on the evolution
of urban settlements, Krieger’s publications include: Mapping
Boston, Design Concepts for Nippon-Daira and Its Region, Towns and
Town Making Principles, The Architecture and Kallmann, McKinnell &
Wood, and Past Futures: Two Centuries of Imagining Boston. |
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| Paul
H. Krueger, AIA, ASLA |
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started
his career at the University of Michigan (BArch 1956, BS Landscape
Arch 1956). He completed a MArch at the GSD (1959) where he
was a pupil of Josep Lluís Sert. Krueger spent 18 years
at Sert, Jackson & Associates where he became a principal in 1965.
He was project architect for Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center
at Harvard. Sert and Krueger were co-principals-in-charge of
the Science Center at Harvard, an AIA gold medal winner. He
has taught at the GSD, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Boston
Architectural Center. In 1977, he established his own firm in
Cambridge concentrating mainly on the design of houses. |
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| Theodore
Liebman, FAIA |
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received
his BA (with Honors) from the Pratt Institute in 1962 and his MArch
from the Harvard GSD in 1963. He worked with the Project Design
Office Government Center and the Boston Redevelopment Authority from
1963-1964. He served at the American Academy from 1964-1966,
winning the Rome Prize in Architecture. He was Chief of Architecture
at the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC) from 1969-1975.
Liebman received the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in
1971. He was Chief of Architecture for the Roosevelt Island
Development Corporation (RIDC) from 1973-1975. He also served
with the Harvard Institute for International Development (Tehran,
Iran). He was President of the New York Chapter of AIA (1983-1984),
and has been the principal at The Liebman Melting Partnership since
1985. In 1988, he received the Andrew J. Thomas Pioneer in Housing
Award from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. |
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| Jorge
Francisco Liernur |
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is
professor of the history of modern architecture at Universidad de
Buenos Aires and a researcher at Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones
Esteticas. He has been a lecturer at the GSD, Rhode Island School
of Design, and Technical University of Berlin. He is author
of several books and articles on architecture in Latin America, including
El umbral de la metrópolis : transformaciones técnicas
y cultura en la modernización de Buenos Aires (1870-1930) and
Arquitectura En La Argentina del Siglo XX. |
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| William
Lindemulder |
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received
his AB from Harvard College (1955), his MArch from the Harvard GSD
(1958), and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Netherlands (1959).
Lindemulder worked as an associate with Sert, Jackson & Gourley
(1960-1964) before spending four years with Brown Daltas & Associates
in Rangoon, Burma. After receiving the Wheelwright Fellowship
(1966-67), Lindemulder returned to Sert, Jackson & Associates,
where he was a principle from 1970-1990. Since then, he has
served as the Chief Urban Designer/Chief Architect with the Wallace
Floyd Design Group on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project. |
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| Richard
Marshall |
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a Senior Urban Designer in EDAW’s San Francisco office.
He has worked as an urban designer and architect for 12 years conducting
architectural and urban design projects in Australia, the United States,
Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and Thailand.
Prior to joining EDAW he was Associate Professor of Urban Design,
and Director of Urban Design Degree Programs at the Harvard Design
School. Marshall is a registered architect and member of the
Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Marshall has lectured
widely and is the author of three books: Emerging Urbanity Global
Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim (2003), Waterfronts in Post
Industrial Cities (2001), and co-author of Urban Design in the American
City (2003). |
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Mendelson |
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is
Assistant Professor of European modern art at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of numerous articles on
early twentieth-century Spanish art, including “Architecture,
Photography and (Gendered) Modernities in 1930s Barcelona” in
Modernism/Modernity (2003) and “Of Politics, Postcards, and
Pornography: Salvador Dalí’s Le Mythe tragique de l’Angélus
de Millet” in Surrealism, Culture, and Politics (2003).
Her article on “Joan Miró’s Drawing-Collage, 8
August 1933: The ‘Intellectual Obscenities’ of Postcards”
will appear this spring in The Art Journal and her book Documenting
Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939
is forthcoming. |
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| Eric
Mumford |
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Associate Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis School
of Architecture, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author
of The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (2000), the only book-length
history of the International Congress of Modern Architecture.
He has published and lectured nationally and internationally on CIAM,
Sert, and on various aspects of 20th century architecture and urbanism.
He has received three Graham Foundation grants, most recently for
an edited book-in-progress, Modern Architecture in St. Louis: Washington
University and postwar American architecture, 1948-1973. He
received his PhD from Princeton University School of Architecture
(1996) and is a licensed architect who practiced in New York City
in the 1980s. He received his MArch at MIT (1983), and his AB
degree at Harvard College (1980). In spring 2004, he will be
a Visiting Associate Professor in the Harvard Department of Art and
Archaeology. |
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| Francesco
Passanti |
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is
preparing a book on Le Corbusier, focused on the formation of his
architectural position during the years 1907-1925 that straddle the
First World War. He studied mechanical engineering at the Politecnico
di Torino in Italy and the history of architecture at Columbia University
in New York. He has taught history of architecture in the program
of History, Theory, and Criticism within the school of architecture
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has lectured at the
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and other places in
this country and in Europe. His most recent essay on Le Corbusier
appears in the exhibition catalogue “Le Corbusier before Le
Corbusier” (2002). |
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| Jill
Pearlman |
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received
her PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago. Currently,
she teaches courses in the history of architecture and urbanism in
the School of Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. She
has published numerous articles in several journals, including the
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She has
also lectured for the SAH study tour on Gropius and has recently completed
a book entitled, Joseph Hudnut and the Gropius Years at Harvard. |
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| Panayiota
Pyla |
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is
Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana where she teaches the history and theory of modern
architecture. Her research examines the interconnective discourses
of modern architecture, environmentalism, and socioeconomic development.
She is now working on a manuscript analyzing Ekistics. Her work
on the politics of Hassan Fathy’s vision of vernacular architecture
is being published in The Many Faces of the Courtyard House: Urbanism,
Ecology, and Culture. Other publications include her article,
“Gray-areas in Green Politics: Reflections on the Modern Environmental
Movement,” (Thresholds, Spring 1997); and “Historicizing
Pedagogy: A Critique of Kostof’s History of Architecture,”
(Journal of Architectural Education, May 1999). She received
her BArch from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and her Masters and
PhD from MIT. |
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| Josep
M. Rovira |
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has
served as a Professor of Art and Architecture at ETSA Barcelona since
1989 and has been a three-time finalist for the Prize FAD of Architecture.
Rovira has written many articles about art and architecture and has
participated in numerous lectures, seminars, and conferences both
in Spain and abroad. He has collaborated to found and develop
the architecture magazines Carrer de la Ciutat and 3ZU. His
published writings include books on Leon Battista Alberti, José
Antonio Coderch, José Luis Sert, Mies van der Rohe, Raimon
Durán Reynals, Architecture in Catalonia in 30’s, Architecture
in Catalonia in 60’s, Architecture of the Renaissance in Catalonia,
and the Architects of Vienna. |
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| Hashim
Sarkis |
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is
the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim
Societies at the GSD. Sarkis is a practicing architect and urban
designer between Cambridge and Beirut. He is author of
several books and articles on post WWII architecture and urbanism,
including Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos
Doxiadis, Projecting Beirut (co-editor with Peter G. Rowe), and
Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival. |
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| Patricia
Schnitter |
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is
a licensed architect and has been a professor at the School of Architecture
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia since
1996. Schnitter pursued graduate study at the Università
degli Studi di Roma in 1986. She received a MA at the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (1996) and a PhD in Architecture
from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (2002).
Her dissertation is entitled Jose Luis Sert and Colombia: From
the Athens Charter to the Habitat Bill of Rights. |
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| Jorge
S. Silvetti |
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is
the Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture at the Graduate
School of Design where he has taught since 1975. He was chairman of
the Architecture Department from 1995-2002. In 1986, he was
awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. Since
1996, Silvetti has served as a juror for the Pritzker Architectural
Prize, and in 2000 he became a juror for the Mies van der Rohe Prize
for Latin American Architecture. Silvetti received the Dipl Arch from
the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the MArch from the University
of California at Berkeley. His architecture firm, Machado and Silvetti
Associates has received numerous honors for design projects, including
awards from the American Institute of Architects, Progressive Architecture,
the Boston Society of Architects, the New England AIA chapter, and
the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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| Richard
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is
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director
of Urban Design Programs at Harvard’s GSD. He is also
a partner in the design firm borfax/B.L.U. His work takes the
complex politics, physical geography and culture of the contemporary
city as a starting point for an experimental approach to architecture
and city building. His current projects include a traveling
exhibition and a forthcoming book titled The Democratic Monument:
Commemorative Architecture in America from the Colossus to the Prospect,
1900-2000. His essays have been published in Perspecta, ANY Magazine,
The Harvard Design Magazine and Arcade, among others. Sommer
received degrees in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design
and Harvard University, where he was also the recipient of the Wheelwright
Traveling Fellowship in 1993. |
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