Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Paulette Singley is a Professor in the School of Architecture at
Woodbury University in Los Angeles California where she serves as Head
of the History and Theory Program and coordinates Urban Studies. She
also teaches at The Southern California Institute for Architecture,
U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California. She received a
Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Princeton University, an
M.A. in the history of architecture and urbanism from Cornell
University, and a B.Arch. from the University of Southern California.
She is a member of the advisory board for the Los Angeles Forum for
Architecture and Urban Design. She has co-edited two books, Eating
Architecture and Architecture: In Fashion and has published essays in
Log, ANY, Assemblage, Autonomy and Ideology, and Shaping the City:
Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design.
Keith
Eggener received his Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University in
1995. Since then he has taught art and architectural history/theory at
Carleton College, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and the University
of Missouri-Columbia, where he is currently Associate Professor of
Architectural History and American Art. He has lectured at universities
and museums across the United States and Europe, as well as in Brazil,
Mexico, and Australia. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the
Kress Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the U.S. Department of
Education, the University of Missouri, and other agencies and
institutions, Eggener is the author of Luis Barragn's Gardens of El
Pedregal (Princeton Architectural Press) and the editor of American
Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge). His articles
on Mexican and U.S. art, architecture, and urbanism have appeared in
several books and journals, including Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and
Beyond (A. Alofsin, ed.), Luis Barragn: The Quiet Revolution (F. Zanco,
ed.), Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America (J.-F.
Lejeune, ed.), Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place,
Identity, Modernity, and Tradition (V. Canizaro, ed.), the Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians, Winterthur Portfolio, American
Art, Architecture and Urbanism (A+U), the Journal of Architectural
Education, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, National
Identities, and others. He is now completing a book on American
cemeteries for the U.S. Library of Congress and W. W. Norton, and
working on a larger project titled "Modernity and Mortality in
20th-century American Architecture. Associate Editor of the Buildings of
the United States (a 59-volume series published by the University of
Virginia Press), he has for many years been involved with historic
preservation efforts around the United States.
Mark
Crinson has published three books: Modern Architecture and the End of
Empire (Ashgate, 2003) for which he received the Spiro Kostof Award of
the SAH, Empire Building : Victorian Architecture and Orientalism
(Routledge,1996), and Architecture- Art or Profession? Three Hundred
Years of Architectural Education in Britain (with Jules Lubbock,
Manchester University Press,1994). He has also edited Urban Memory:
History and Amnesia in the Modern City (Routledge, 2005), Sonia Boyce:
Performance (in IVA, 1998), and contributed articles to a number of
periodicals and edited collections. Forthcoming articles include 'Pictorialism
and the Industrial City: Alvin Langdon Coburn and Manchester', History of
Photography. May 2006. 'The Uses of Nostalgia: Stirling and Gowan at
Preston', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2006.
'Decolonizing Architecture: Critical Regionalism and Architecture after
Colonialism', in Paula Lupkin and Parker Taylor (eds), Encounters in
World Architecture, 2007. Crinson took an MA in Art History at the
Courtauld Institute and wrote his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania
on nineteenth-century British architecture in the Middle East and
Orientalism in Victorian architectural discourse. He has taught at the
Open University and Loughborough College of Art and Design, and was
Senior Research Officer at Essex University, before taking up his
present post in the Department of Art History ad Visual Studies at the
University of Manchester in 1993
