University of MichiganA. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
doctoral program in architecture
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2224 Art + Architecture Bldg.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
Architectural history + theory
Faculty Publications, Papers, and Projects
2007-08    

University of Michigan, NCID (National Center for Institutional Diversity), Diversity Conversations, Grant

to create lectures series for “Making the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning a National Leader in Reflecting the Diversity of American Society”

Caroline Constant (PI), Margaret Dewar, Lydia Soo, Claire Zimmermann

MIT, Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS), November 2007, invited lecture

“An Intellectual History of New Urbanism”

Robert Fishman

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale AZ, 75th Anniversary Reunion, November 2007, invited lecture

“Beyond Sprawl: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Utopian Vision for America”

Robert Fishman

Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACREPH), Biannual meeting, Portland ME, October 2007

“A Forgotten Landmark in American Regionalism: Lawrence Halprin’s plan for the Willamette Valley (1972)”

Robert Fishman

National Building Museum, Washington D.C., Public lecture series, “For the Greener Good,” September 2007

“Is Suburbia Dangerous for your health?”

Robert Fishman

Rockefeller Foundation, “Innovations for an Urban World: A Global Urban Summit,” Bellagio, Italy, July 2007

“1808-1908-2008: Contours of American National Planning”

Robert Fishman

Technisches Universitat, Berlin, Center for Metropolitan Studies,” Conference, “Concealing the Designer,” June 2007

“The Lie That Tells the Truth: A defense of neo-historicism in urbandesign”

Robert Fishman

Congress for New Urbanism, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, May 2007

“New Urbanism for all: meeting the affordability challenge”

Robert Fishman

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008

Making Lahore Modern:  constructing and imagining a colonial city

Will Glover

Journal of Punjab Studies, 14:2, Fall 2007

“Construing Urban Space as 'Public' in Colonial India: Some Notes from Punjab”

Will Glover

Center for Punjab and Sikh Studies, the University of California at Santa Barbara, May 2007

Grant to pursue research on Sikh religious architecture in India

Will Glover

Theory and Event, 10:2, 2007

“Urbicide, Urbanism and Urban Destruction in Kosovo”

Andrew Herscher

Volume, 11, 2007

“Warchitecture”

Andrew Herscher

Volume, 11, 2007

“World Bank Cities”

Andrew Herscher

University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Hunting Family Faculty Fellow

 

Andrew Herscher

Visions of the Industrial Age: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in European Culture, 1830-1914, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008

"From Will to Wallpaper: Imaging and Imagining the Natural in the Domestic Interiors of the Art Nouveau"

Amy Kulper

Intimate Metropolis, ed. V. di Palma, D. Periton, M. Lathouri, London, Routledge, 2008

"Private House, Public House: Victor Horta's Ubiquitous Domesticity"

Amy Kulper

Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. Ray Hutchinson, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 2008

“Christopher Wren, Plan of London” and “Wren, Sir Christopher”

Lydia Soo

New York, Cambridge University Press, paperback reissue 2007 (published 1998)

Wren’s “Tracts” on Architecture and Other Writings

Lydia Soo

Conference “Return Emigrations,” Columbia University

"Photographic Returns"

Claire Zimmermann

Perspecta 40: Monster, 2008

“The Monster Magnified: Architectural Photography as Visual Hyperbole”

Claire Zimmermann

AA Files 56, November 2007

“Jim Stirling Reassembled”

Claire Zimmermann

German Studies Association, Annual Conference, October 2007

“Kracauer at the Weissenhofsiedlung”

Claire Zimmermann

Conference “Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880-present,” University of York, UK,  July 2007

“James Stirling’s Real Function”

Claire Zimmermann

     
2006–07    

APPX 1, 2007, 47-77

“Adolf Loos and ‘the woman problem’:  Decorum and Modern Architecture”

Caroline Constant

Parametro, no. 264/265, July/October 2006, 82-89

“Verso un paesaggio spirituale:  il cimitero Woodland e la riforma cimiteriale svedese”

Caroline Constant

Robert Moses and the Modern City: the transformation of New York,  ed. H. Ballon and K. T. Jackson, New York, Norton, 2007, 183-215

“Revolt of the Urbs: Robert Moses and the Battle of Washington Square” 

Robert Fishman

Places, 19:1, Spring 2007, 41-45

“On Big Beaver Road: Detroit and the Variety of Metropolitan Landscapes”

Robert Fishman

Technology and Culture, 48:2, April 2007, 404-407

“Half the Story”  (discusses Paul Clemens, Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir and related Detroit histories)

Robert Fishman

Museum of the City of New York, Public Lecture, April 2007

“Who Plans?  Robert Moses and the Battle for Control of New York City        
Planning”

Robert Fishman

Cornell University, School of Architecture and Planning, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, March 2007, public lecture and invited seminar

Lecture:  “Global Garden Cities: the Garden City Movement in global perspective”
Seminar: “The History of Planning in Global Perspective”

Robert Fishman

Urban History Association, 2007, “Best Article in a Scholarly Journal without Geographic Restriction Published in 2005”

Awarded for “Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works:  Education Sentiment in Colonial India,” Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 64, No. 3, August 2005, 539-66

Will Glover

Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 2007

Invited lecture “Is There Such a Thing as Sikh Architecture?” 

Will Glover

The Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Countries, Leiden, Brill, 2006

"Women, Gender, and Colonial Cities: South Asia”

Will Glover

Trans: A Visual Culture Conference, University of  Wisconsin-Madison, October 2006

Invited panel chair on urban space and visual culture

Will Glover

Center For South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 35th Annual Conference, October  2006

Invited panel chair for: “Visual Culture and the Urban Imaginary in South Asia”

Will Glover

Vernacular Architectural Forum, Annual meeting, New York, NY, June 2006

“Architectural Pattern Books in Early-Twentieth Century South Asia”

Will Glover

Journal of Architectural Education, 60:1, September 2006, 18-19

“American Urbicide”

Andrew Herscher

Architectural Education Summit, Los Angeles, April 2007

"What?  and How?"

Amy Kulper

Journal of Architecture, 11:4, September 2006, 391-406

"Of Stylised Species and Specious Styles"

Amy Kulper

UM, TCAUP, Pause Centennial Conference, November 2006

"Double Agencies: The Tactics of Erasure and the Tyranny of the Detail"

Amy Kulper

UM, Architecture Program, Donna M. Salzer Award

For teaching excellence

Amy Kulper

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 65, No. 3, September 2006, 449-51

book review of Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar, editors, Articulating British Classicism:  New approaches to eighteenth-century architecture, Ashgate Publishing, 2004

Lydia Soo

UM, Office of the Vice President for Research, Preliminary/Small Scale Projects

Grant to conduct summer archival research on Christopher Wren

Lydia Soo

Domès. International Review of Architecture 54:1, January 2007, 110-125

“Spatial Choreography and the Modern Domestic Interior: The Tugendhat House”

Claire Zimmerman

Cologne, Taschen, 2006

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Claire Zimmerman

     
2005–06    

Entrez Lentement, ed. Pierluigi Nicolin, Milan, Lotus Editoriale, 2005, 38-43

“E.1027: Maison en Bord de Mer,”

Caroline Constant

Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 2006

“Repackaging South Asia's Visual Culture”

Will Glover

Center for South Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, Annual Lecture Series, March 2006

invited lecture: “Ethnology, Engineering, and the Architectural Profession in India, or: Ganga Ram Goes to England,”

Will Glover

27th Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI, October 2005

“Architectural Drawings and the Newly Modern House”

Will Glover

Journal of Asian Studies, 64:3, August 2005, 539-66

“Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works:  Education Sentiment in Colonial Punjab”

Will Glover

Future Anterior, 3:2, Winter 2006, 24-33

“Counter-Heritage and Violence,”

Andrew Herscher

European Review, 13:2, May 2005, 251-260

“Urban Formations of Difference:  Border and Cities in Post-1989 Europe”

Andrew Herscher

University of Michigan, International Institute, Faculty Fellowship, 2005-2009

 

Andrew Herscher

UM, International Institute, Experiential Learning Fund

To incorporate a study abroad component into the course “The Urban History of Rome”

Lydia Soo