Memory and Architecture

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors ELENI BASTÉA is associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), which won the John D. Criticos Prize. Her current project focuses on the memory of place in contemporary Greece and Turkey. CAREL BERTRAM is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at San Francisco State University. Her work is on architecture as allegory, with a concentration on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman urban environment, especially in Anatolia and the Balkans. Her dissertation is titled “The Turkish House: An Effort of Memory” (UCLA, 1998). THOMAS FISHER is professor and dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. He has served as the editorial director of Progressive Architecture and Building Renovation magazines and is the author of In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and Salmela, Architect (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, forthcoming). CHRISTINE GORBY is an architect and associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. She teaches upper-level thesis design studio and lectures on the history and theory of urban form. Her research considers spiritual experience and place making in the city. Gorby received a master of architecture from Harvard University in 1988.| xiii CATHERINE HAMEL is assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research projects focus on groups that have been subjected to the pressures of transformation, particularly immigrants and refugees. In 2003, she held a solo exhibit of drawings at the Nickel Arts Museum, University of Calgary, entitled displace/graft/retrace. RACHEL HURST and JANE LAWRENCE are senior lecturers in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia. They have developed, refined, and implemented an innovative collaborative-architecture and interiordesign studio teaching practice; they also share research interests in alliances between architecture and gastronomy. MARK JARZOMBEK is associate professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. He is the author of On Leon Baptista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989) and The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, and History (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000). SABIR KHAN is associate professor and associate dean of undergraduate studies at the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His primary research interests are in studio-based design pedagogy and in exploring what a cross-cultural framework may offer to the production, consumption, and reception of architecture and design. A new research project, Hyphen-nation, looks at the way race and ethnicity play out in contemporary American spaces and culture. FERNANDO LARA is a practicing architect and assistant professor of architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His dissertation is titled “Popular Modernism: An Analysis of the Acceptance of Modern Architecture in 1950s Brazil” (University of Michigan, 2001). xiv | notes on contributors MARIA DE LOURDES LUZ is trained in architecture and the visual arts. She is dean of the School of Design and Visual Arts of the Veiga de Almeida University in Rio de Janeiro. She also holds a Ph.D. from the Beaux Arts School of the UFRJ—Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. BARBARA MANN is associate professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of the forthcoming book, A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005). V. B. PRICE, journalist and poet, teaches in the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of A City at the End of the World (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992, revised 2003) and coeditor (with Baker H. Morrow) of Anasazi Architecture and American Design (UNM Press, 1997). He is also the author of several poetry collections and of a novel, The Oddity (UNM Press, 2004). ERIC SANDWEISS is Carmony Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also the editor of Indiana Magazine of History. He is the author of St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) and the editor of...