Contributors
- Contributors
Jeffrey A. Cohen is senior lecturer in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College, where he teaches courses in architectural and urban history. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, writing a dissertation on "The Queen Anne and the Late Victorian Townhouse, 1878–1895." He is coauthor of Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732–1986, Frank Furness: The Complete Works, and The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Howard Davis is professor of architecture at the University of Oregon and coeditor of Buildings & Landscapes. His professional work and research are concerned with housing, the social frameworks of building production, and urban districts. He is the author of The Culture of Building, coauthor of The Production of Houses, and is completing a manuscript on urban buildings that combine commercial and residential uses. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Architectural Education, Urban Morphology, and Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.
Lynne M. Dearborn is an assistant professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies residential choices of marginalized populations, responses to social injustice, the residential environments of immigrant and minority populations, and healthy, sustainable residential environments. She received her PhD in architecture from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Patricio del Real is a doctoral candidate in architecture history and theory at Columbia University. He has taught architecture since 1991, and his essays have appeared in the Radical History Review, AULA, Pasajes, Art Journal, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
Richard Harris is an urban historical geographer at McMaster University, Canada. He has written about segregation, housing, and suburban development in the United States, Canada, and Australia. His latest book is Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960 (2004). Supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is writing a book about the rise of the home improvement industry, 1920s–1960s. He is also researching British colonial housing policy in India, East Africa, and the West Indies in the twentieth century.
Jeffrey Klee is a PhD candidate from the University of Delaware and has worked as an architectural historian for Colonial Williamsburg Foundation since 2004. [End Page 100]
Rachel Leibowitz is a historian with the Texas Historical Commission. In 2008, she earned the first doctoral degree in landscape architecture granted by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She also holds bachelor's and master's degrees in photography from Washington University in St. Louis and Tulane University, respectively, as well as an M.Arch. degree in historic preservation from the University of Illinois. She is researching several different aspects of the built environment of Texas, including the construction of small-town synagogues, the early twentieth-century establishment of segregated public parks, and the Texas projects of modernist landscape architects including Marie and Arthur Berger, Thomas Church, and Lawrence Halprin.
Brook Muller is assistant professor in the Architecture Department at the University of Oregon, teaching design studios and courses in sustainable architecture, theory, and media. He is also the director of the Certificate Program in Ecological Design within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. His research focuses on the design process in its formative stages and the theoretical foundations of ecologically responsive architectural practice.
Louis P. Nelson is associate professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia and coeditor of Buildings & Landscapes. His research focuses on the everyday architecture of early America, specifically the architecture of the early American South and its relationship to the Caribbean. He also writes on questions of the sacred in space and is the editor of a volume of essays entitled American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces.
Anna Cristina Pertierra is a research fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. She is an anthropologist with interests in material culture studies, urban anthropology, and consumption. Forthcoming publications will appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and an edited collection entitled Caribbean Field Identities. Anna is currently preparing her doctoral research on domestic consumption in contemporary Cuba for publication and is undertaking new ethnographic projects in Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Lisa Tucker has been a practicing architect...
