TCAUP CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
JANUARY 4–6 2007, ANN ARBOR, MI
SPEAKERS
Barbara Anderson is professor of sociology, research professor at the Populations Studies Center, and a faculty associate at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Anderson studies the relationship between social change and demographic change.
Homi Bhabha is the director of the Humanities Center and the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He has written extensively on the literature of the postcolonial world and cultural theory, with emphasis on porous literary boundaries and national identities.
Lance Brown is the ACSA Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York’s (CCNY) School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture. He is currently coordinator of design at CCNY. Professor Brown has distinguished himself as a citizen architect by seeking solutions to society’s needs through architecture, planning, and urban design.
Charles Correa is principal of Charles Correa Associates in Mumbai, India. He is the Farwell Bemis Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an architect, planner, activist, and theoretician who addresses not only issues of architecture, but of low-income housing and urban planning.
Teddy Cruz is principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz and associate professor of architecture at Woodbury University. His practice and pedagogy reflect his commitment to advancing architectural and urban planning projects that address the global, political, and social problems that proliferate on the international border between San Diego and Tijuana.
Lan Deng is assistant professor of urban planning at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
Geoffrey Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History and chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science and the Arts and a faculty associate in the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Michigan. His fields of research include historiography, cinema, and the construction of the national past; and conceptions of class in history and politics.
Susan S. Fainstein is a professor of urban planning at the Harvard Design School. Her teaching and research center on comparative urban public policy, planning theory, urban political economy, public transportation, and urban redevelopment.
Robert Fishman is professor of architecture and urban planning at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
Harrison Fraker is dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting, and sustainable design research. His pragmatic and theoretical analysis to critical environmental design challenges has lead to a whole systems approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
N. John Habraken is the former head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven. Although retired in 1989, he remains actively involved in architecture and town planning and lectures worldwide.
Douglas S. Kelbaugh FAIA is dean of Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and professor of architecture and urban planning.
John King is vice provost for academic information and professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Drawing on engineering and the social sciences, he studies the organizational and institutional forces that shape how information technology is developed.
Fernando Lara is assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Larissa Larson is assistant professor of urban planning at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Liane LeFaivre is professor and chair of history and theory of architecture, University of Applied Art, Austria and research affiliate, Urbanism Department, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Her work is devoted to architectural culture and criticism in the framework of cognitive history, architectural history, creativity, and the cognitive/conceptual aspects of the modern in Western Culture.
Ann Lin is associate professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include nonprofit and public management, poverty and social welfare, and race and ethnicity policy.
Ed Mazria is principal of Mazria, Inc. Odems Dzurec. He has taught at a number of universities and his architecture and energy research lead the field of resource conservation. His innovative design methodology is currently in use worldwide.
Rahul Mehrotra is associate professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
David Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, Ohio. He is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and for his recent work in ecological design.
Kelly Quinn is the Sojourner Truth Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
Mireille Roddier is assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Bishwapriya Sanyal is the faculty-chair elect and Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and the director of special programs in urban and regional studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include development planning and informal economy.
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Sassen, who coined the term “global city,” is a leading theorist of globalization and international human migration.
William Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard Design School. He is an author and editor of books on architectural practices and on the landscape architecture of Daniel Kiley and Richard Haag.
Daniel F. Solomon FAIA is professor emeritus of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder of Solomon E.T.C. Residential architecture and the interaction between housing and urban design have been the main focus of his work. He is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
Michael Sorkin is professor of architecture and director of the graduate urban design program at City College of New York. He is principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio working on issues of urban morphology, sustainability, and equity, with a special interest in the city and green architecture.
Anne Spirn is a professor of landscape architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has an international reputation as the preeminent scholar working at the intersection of landscape architecture and environmental planning.
Roy Strickland is the director of the master of urban design program at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
Marilyn J. Taylor FAIA is partner in charge, urban design and planning /airports and transportation at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. She is also chair of the Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C.
John Thackara is director of the Doors of Perception, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is a symposiarch who designs events, projects, and organizations. Doors of Perception connects a worldwide network of paradigm-changing designers, media artists, technology innovators, and grassroots activists.
Anthony Townsend is research director, Institute for the Future, California. He has been researching the implications of new technology on cities and public institutions. His work focuses on pervasive computing, the urban environment, economics and demographics, public and non-profit organizations, and the media industry.
Anthony M. Tung is an author, urbanist, and former New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissioner. He has been an instructor on architectural history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a visiting professor on international urban preservation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has lectured worldwide on urban architecture and conservation issues and consulted on heritage conservation policy.
Anne Vernez-Moudon is professor of urban design and planning and director of the Urban Form Lab at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on urban form analysis, land monitoring, neighborhood and street design, and non-motorized transportation.
Alex Wall is professor of urban design at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His current research themes are focused in Asia, leading one study on Jakarta, Indonesia "Superblock and Urban Shopping Center: Their Role in the Asian Megacity" and another examining Hyderabad, India "SHAKTI - Research for the Sustainable Development of the Megacities of Tomorrow."
Frederick Wherry is assistant professor of sociology and a faculty associate at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. He is an economic sociologist who uses qualitative methods and comparative approaches to study culture, consumption, global markets, and local production processes.
Kenneth Yeang is Plym Professor at the University of Illinois, an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya, University of Hawaii, and Tongji University. A principal of T.R.Hamzah & Yeang, Malaysia, he is an architect/planner and a leading ecodesigner, theoretician, and thinker in the field of green design.
Claire Zimmerman is assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and assistant professor of history of art at the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan.
