Faculty
Biography | Vita
Professor
- Architecture
The relationship between architecture, art and science;
intellectual biography; the history of urban form;
functionalist theory and aesthetics; urban design
- 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)
- 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




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