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Steve Grabow

Stephen Grabow
 sgrabow@ku.edu
Office:  417 Marvin Hall
Phone:  785.864.3186
Fax:  785.864.5185
Stephen Grabow Ph.D.
Professor

Academic Areas

  • Architecture
Research Interests:

    The relationship between architecture, art and science;
    intellectual biography; the history of urban form;
    functionalist theory and aesthetics; urban design

Courses Currently Taught

  • Arch. 200  Architectural Design I (6)
  • Arch  401  Architectural Design VI (6)
  • Arch  600  The Language of Modern Architecture
  • Arch  665  History of Urban Design
  • Arch  705  Graduate Design Studio in Berlin (6)
Education
  • B.Arch., Michigan, 1965
  • M.Arch., Pratt Institute, 1966
  • Landscape Architecture, UC Berkley, 1966-67
  • Ph.D., Washington, 1973

Fellowships and Grants:

  • American Fulbright Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
  • Hall Center for the Humanities

Awards:

  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
  • American Institute of Architects (Kansas City Chapter)
  • Danish International Studies Program
  • School of Architecture & Urban Design (Bradley Award)

Books & Monographs

  • Christopher Alexander: The Search for a
    New Paradigm in Architecture
  • Architectural Education: Where We Are (co-author)
  • Architecture and the Future (co-author)

Selected Articles:

“Going After the Avant-Garde: Architectural Aesthetics
and the Spirit of Advertising,” The Structurist, 45/46;
“Towards an Aesthetics of Function,” The Structurist, 39/40;
“The Role of Memory in the Perception of Architecture:
Reading the Trenton Bath House from Auschwitz,”
The Structurist, 37/38
; Organic and Mechanical Form
Principles,” The Structurist, 35/36; From Goethe to Chaos:
Creativity in Morphic Analogues,” The Structurist, 33/34;
“Frozen Music: The Bridge between Art and Science,”
"Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought
;
“Sailboat and Sonatas,” Art & Academe; “The Science of
Design,” ReVision Journal; Frank Lloyd Wright and the
American City, AIP Journal; “The Hidden Structure of
Children’s Play in an Urban Environment,” The Behavioral
Basis of Design
; “The Outsider in Retrospect: E.A. Gutkind,
AIP Journal
; “Foundations for a Radical Concept of Planning,”
AIP Journal