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University Distinguished Teaching Professor School of Architecture 310 Inner Campus Drive, B7500 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1009 tel: (512) 232-4084 e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION University of Texas at Austin Ph.D., History, 1993 Dissertation: “Josef Frank and the Crisis of Modern Architecture” M.A., History, 1982
Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1985–87
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, 1980–81
Karl-Franzens-Universität, Institut für südosteuropäische Geschichte, Graz, Austria, 1977–78
University of Texas at San Antonio B.A., Summa cum laude, History, 1978
SELECTED 2016-2017 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, Association of Collegiate School of FELLOWSHIPS Architecture, 2016 AND AWARDS Book Subvention Award, for The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Architecture, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Outstanding Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Fulbright Grant, Vienna, 2014-15 (declined)
Kjell och Märta Beijers Stiftelse, Stockholm, publication grant for Josef Frank: Gesammelte Schriften/Complete Writings, 2012
Architectural Research Support Grant, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Texas Institute of Letters, Best Scholarly Book Award, 2011 (for The Looshaus)
Harwell Hamilton Harris Professorship, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
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Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas System, 2010
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Kjell och Märta Beijers Stiftelse, Stockholm, research and translation grant for Josef Frank: Gesammelte Schriften/Complete Writings, 2010
Outstanding Lecture Teacher Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, research grant for “Kem Weber and Modern Design in Southern California,” 2008
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, finalist for the RIBA International Books Award, 2008
Outstanding Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Robert A. Smith Award for the Best Article on the Decorative Arts for 2007-2008, Decorative Arts Society, New York, 2008
Texas Exes Teaching Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Special Research Grant, Vice President for Research, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Outstanding Lecture Teacher Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Distinguished Service Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2004
Outstanding Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Journal of Architectural Education Best Article Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2003
Hogg Research Grant, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2000-02
University Cooperative Society Book Subvention, for Josef Frank: Life and Work (University of Chicago Press), 2000
Outstanding Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
Summer Research Award, University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, “Paul T. Frankl and Los Angeles,” Summer 2000
Outstanding Lecture Teacher Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
Svenskt Tenn AB, Stockholm, translation grant, 1998
Kjell och Märta Beijers Stiftelse, Stockholm, research and publication grant, 1996
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, research grant, 1995 3
Annual Teaching Award, Central European University, Prague, 1995
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, research grant, 1994-95
Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1993
Alpbach Foundation Fellowship, Austria, 1990
Dora Bonham Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1990
Centennial Graduate Student Support Fund Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1987-89
Fulbright Fellowship (Austria), 1985–87
University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Research Grant, 1981
Dora Bonham Research Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1981
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship, 1980–81
TEACHING University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture and Planning, EXPERIENCE Professor, 2009-present; Associate Professor, 2003-2009, Assistant Professor, 1999- 2003; Lecturer, 1995-99
Technische Universität Wien (Technical University Vienna), Department of Architectural Theory, Visiting Professor, Spring-Summer 2016
Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic, History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture Department, Visiting Professor, 1994–95
University of Texas at Austin, Department of History, Instructor, 1987–88; Teaching Assistant, 1980-81, 1982-85
PROFESSIONAL Editorial and advisory boards and grant reviews EXPERIENCE
Advisory Board, Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts, 2012-present
Member, Antoinette Forester Downing Book Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2013-14
Book review editor, Centropa, 2003-11
Grant reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2004-05
Grant reviewer, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Vienna, Austria, 2003, 2008, 2013
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Editorial board, Jahrbuch des Bundesinstitutes für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, 2009-11
Board of Editors, Journal of Architectural Education, 2001-04
Manuscript reviews
Ars Nova Media, Vienna, 1986–87
Ashgate Press, 2009, 2014
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, 2016
Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2013
Cambridge University Press, 1995-97
University of Chicago Press, 2002-03, 2009, 2010
DoppelHouse Press, Los Angeles, 2013, 2014
Fairchild Books, New York, 2004-05
Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1985-86
Journal of Architectural Education, 2008-10
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000-03, 2013, 2014
Oxford University Press, 2009
Penn State University Press, 2012, 2014
Pointed Leaf Press, New York, 2000-01
Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1998-2009
University of Washington Press, 2003-04
University Press of New England, 2015
West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 2014, 2015
Yale University Press, 2006-09
Consulting
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007-08, 2010
Carlton Hobbs, New York, 2009
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2007-08, 2010
Cincinnati Art Museum, 2014 5
Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2016
Dallas Museum of Art, 2005-06, 2008, 2011, 2012
Discovery Channel, 2005
Disneyland Shanghai, 2016
Donzella 20th Century, New York, 2016
DoppelHouse Press, Los Angeles, 2015
Getty Foundation, 2015, 2016
High Museum, Atlanta, 2012
Jackson Design AB, Stockholm and Berlin, 2008
Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, 2005, 2007
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008-13, 2014-15, 2016
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Arts, Utica, New York, 2016
Die neue Sammlung—Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich, 2007
Oxford University Press, 2012
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010
Phillips, New York, 2016
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey, 2012, 2015, 2016
Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2010-12
Richard Wright Auctions, Chicago, 2004-10, 2015
Sotheby’s, New York, 2004-14, 2016
Stewart Program for Modern Design, Montreal, 2010
University of California, Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, 2017
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2008, 2011
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 2015
Yale University Art Gallery, 2006, 2010
Yale University Press, 2014, 2016
Private collectors, dealers, and gallery owners in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and many other cities, 2001-present
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Exhibitions
“Making Home: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Everyday Life,” Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, opening January 22, 2019. (co-curator, with Monica Penick)
“Paul T. Frankl: Ein Wiener Designer in New York und Los Angeles,” Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung, Vienna, October 4, 2013 to February 1, 2014 ; and March 17, 2014 to June 1, 2014, Österreichisches Kulturforum, Budapest. (co-curator, with Laura McGuire)
“I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, September 11, 2012 to January 6, 2013; and City Museum of New York, October 16, 2013 to February 10, 2014. (advisor)
“Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011-March 25, 2012; National Art Center, Tokyo, March 20 to June 3, 2013: Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, July 6 September 29, 2013; and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, November 2, 2013 to February 9, 2014. (advisor)
“Josef Frank: Varning för god smak,” exhibition at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm, June 17- September 13, 1998. (advisor)
“Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home,” at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, May 9 to July 21, 1996. (co- curator, with Nina Stritzler-Levine and Kristina Wängberg-Eriksson)
“Josef Frank arkitektur,” exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm, September 16 to November 13, 1994. (co-curator)
University Administrative Positions
Director, Architectural History Program, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-17
Director, Ph.D. Program, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-13
Director, Historic Preservation Program, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2004-06
Other Professional Work and Service
Board member, Preservation Committee, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas, 2001-11
Assistant curator, Architectural Drawings Collection, University of Texas at Austin, 1987–88
SELECTED Books PUBLICATIONS
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The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016.
Der Fall Loos. Vienna and Munich: Amalthea Verlag, 2015.
Kem Weber: Designer and Architect. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014.
Paul T. Frankl: Autobiography. Los Angeles: DoppelHouse Press, 2013. (editor, with Aurora McClain)
Josef Frank: Schriften / Josef Frank: Writings. 2 vols. Vienna: Metro Verlag, 2012 (editor, with Tano Bojankin and Iris Meder, introduction by Denise Scott Brown).
The Looshaus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.
Josef Frank: Life and Work. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Exhibition catalogs
“Subjektive Wahrnehmung und dynamisches Erlebnis: Josef Franks Ideen zur Raumplanung” / “Subjective Perception and Dynamic Experience: Josef Frank’s Spatial Planning Ideas,” in Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Hermann Czech, and Sebastian Hackenschmidt, eds. Against Design: Josef Frank: Das anti-formalistiche Werk des Architekten / The Architekt’s Anti-Formalist Oeuvre (Basel: Birkhäuser; Vienna: MAK—Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, 2015): 122-39.
“Josef Frank und der American Way of Life” / “Josef Frank and the American Way of Life,” in Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Hermann Czech, and Sebastian Hackenschmidt, eds. Against Design: Josef Frank: Das anti-formalistiche Werk des Architekten / The Architect’s Anti-Formalist Oeuvre (Basel: Birkhäuser; Vienna: MAK—Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, 2015): 276-87.
“Vermächtnis einer Kampfdekade: Ornament und Verbrechen ab 1909,” in Christian Witt- Dörring and Matthias Boeckl, eds. Wege der Moderne: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos und die Folgen; exhib. cat. (Basel: Birkhäuser; Vienna: MAK—Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, 2014): 184-95.
“Paul T. Frankl: Ein Wiener Designer in New York und Los Angeles/Paul T. Frankl: A Viennese Designer in New York and Los Angeles,” in Monika Pessler, ed., Paul T. Frankl: Ein Wiener Designer in New York und Los Angeles, exhib. cat., Vienna: Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung, 2013): 4-23.
“Ornament is Not Exactly a Crime: On the Long and Curious Afterlife of Adolf Loos’s Famed Essay”; “Ornament ist nicht wirklich ein Verbrechen: Über die lange und kuriose Nachwirkung von Adolf Loos’ legendärem Vortrag”; “Ornamento não exactamente crime: sobre a longa e curiosa vida póstuma do famoso ensaio de Adolf Loos,” in Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary/Unser Zeitgenosse/Nosso Contemporâneo, edited by Yehuda E. Safran, exhib. cat., CAAA Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs in Guimarães, Portugal; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna; and GSAPP Gallery, Columbia University, New York: GSAPP, 8
Columbia University, 2012: 31-48; 109-26; 185-201.
“Geddes’s Furniture Designs,” in Donald Albrecht, ed., Norman Bel Geddes Designs America; exhib. cat., Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; New York City Museum/New York: Abrams, 2012: 214-27.
“The Rise of California Modern Design, 1930-1941,” in Wendy Kaplan, ed., California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way” exhib. cat., Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 2011: 60-89.
“Josef Frank in New York,” in Iris Meder, ed., Josef Frank—1885-1967; exhib. cat., Vienna: Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien/Salzburg and Munich: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2007: 67-74.
“Space for Living: Josef Frank's Architecture,” in Nina Stritzler-Levine, ed., Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home; exhib. cat., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996: 78-95.
“The Wayward Heir: Josef Frank's Vienna Years, 1885-1933,” in Nina Stritzler- Levine, ed., Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home; exhib. cat., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996: 44-61.
“Josef Frank och modernismen,” in Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen, eds., Josef Frank-arkitektur; exh. cat.,Stockholm: Arkitekturmuseet, 1994: 24-31. German edition: “Josef Frank und die Moderne,” in Josef Frank—Architektur; exhib. cat., Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1995: 24-31.
Translations
Translation of Kristina Wängberg-Eriksson, Josef Frank som mönsterkonstnär. English edition: Josef Frank: Textile Designs. Lund, Sweden: Bokförlaget Signum, 1999 (with Kristina Wängberg-Eriksson and Jan Christer Eriksson).
Published Interviews
J. S. Marcus, “Josef Frank’s Textiles to Bring Vivid Color to London Museum: The artist’s textiles, going on exhibit at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, are a colorful take on modernism,” Wall Street Journal, 30 December 2016.
“Josef Frank: Fondateur du Modernisme Suédois,” in Josef Frank (1885-1967) L’essence du modernism scandinave, Piasa, Mercrdi 17 Février 2016 (Paris, 2016).
“Plzeň a Loos? Jedinečné spojení! S profesorem Christopher zem Longem, znalcem středoevropské architektury i design, o časech, kdy Plzeň byla progresivnější než Vídeň,” in Lidové Noviny (Prague), 5 September 2015, VII: 25.
Hanno Rauterberg, “Architektur und Verbrechen: Adolf Loos, einer der größten Baumeister der Moderne, wurde als pädophiler Straftäter in Wien verurteilt. Das wurde lange verschwiegen. Nun aber beginnt endlich die Debatte darüber, was eigentlich geschah,” Die Zeit (Hamburg), 30 July 2015, 31.
“Braucht Österreich ein Architekturmuseum?” Architektur und Bauforum (Vienna), August 26, 2013: 11.
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Articles, reviews, and other scholarly writings
“The Königsschule and Its Legacies,” in Elana Shapira, ed., Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism (Vienna: Böhlau, forthcoming).
Review of John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, by Danielle Shapiro, in Design and Culture (forthcoming).
“Becoming American: Paul T. Frankl’s Passage to a New Design Aesthetic,” in Alison Clarke and Elana Shapira, eds., Émigré Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design (London: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2016).
“Modern Architecture in Austria: A Special Legacy,” in Austrian Information 89 (Fall 2016): 4-8.
“Josef Frank, CIAM, and the Assault on the Unified Ideal / Josef Frank, CIAM, en de aanval op het eenheidsideaal,” Oase: Journal for Architecture / Tijdschrift voor architectuur 97 (2016): 53-60.
“Villa Müller, Adolf Loos” in David Leatherbarrow and Alexander Eisenschmidt, eds., Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the History of Architecture, Vol IV, Twentieth-Century Architecture (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2016): 261-73.
“Viennese Design Abroad: Josef Frank and Paul T. Frankl,” in Kevin Tucker, ed., The Wittgenstein Vitrine: Modern Opulence in Vienna, exhib. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2016): 117-27 (supplement).
Review of Ich warne Sie vor Josef Hoffmann: Adolf Loos und die Wiener Werkstätte, edited and written by Markus Kristan, in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture 22, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2015): 229-31.
Review of Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907, edited by Christian Witt-Dörring, in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture 21, no. 12 (Fall-Winter 2014): 273-75.
“Kem Weber: An Important and Rare Vase, Important 20th Century Design, Auction in New York, 11 June 2014, Sotheby’s New York (New York: Sotheby’s, 2014): 84-85.
Review of Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Silent Revolutions in Ornament: Studies in Applied Arts and Crafts from 1880-1930 and Joseph Mascheck, Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 2 (June 2014): 285-87.
“Paul T. Frankl: Modern Design in New York and Los Angeles,” Important 20th Century Design, Auction in New York, 18 December 2013, Sotheby’s New York (New York: Sotheby’s, 2013): 48-53.
Review of Claire Beck Loos, Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait, Carrie Paterson, ed., in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture 20, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2013): 134-35.
Review of Jindřich Chatrný and Dagmar Černoušková, eds., Brněské stopy Adolfa Loose and Petr Domanický and Petr Jindra, eds. Loos—Plzeň—Souvislosti, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 60, no. 5 (May 2012): 432-35. 10
Review of Cold War on the Homefront: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design, by Greg Castillo, Journal of Design History 25, no. 3 (August 2012): 337-39.
“Kem Weber,” Important 20th Century Design, Auction in New York, 13 June 2012, Sotheby’s New York (New York: Sotheby’s, 2012): 50-52.
Review of Clemens Holzmeister: Architekt zwischen Kunst und Politik, by Wilfried Posch, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 60, no. 2 (2012): 168-70.
Review of Pevsner—The Early Life: Germany and Art, by Stephen Games, in Centropa 12, no. 2 (January 2012): 92-93.
“The Bixby House,” The Magazine Antiques 179, no. 1 (January-February 2012): 226-35.
Review of Collecting Modern: Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1876, by Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger, Burlington Magazine 153 (November 2011): 755.
Review of Jacqueline Groag—Textile and Pattern Design: Wiener Werkstätte to American Modern, by Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain, and Annamarie Stapleton, in Centropa 11, no. 3 (September 2011): 263-64.
Review of Makers: A History of Modern Studio Craft, by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf, Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1302 (September 2011): 608-9.
Review of Modernism After Wagner, by Juliet Koss, in Harvard Design Magazine 34 (Summer-Fall 2011): 231-33.
Review of Walter Crane: The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics, by Morna O’Neill, Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1300 (July 2011): 485.
Review of Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement, by Charlotte Gere, Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1296 (April 2011): 260.
Review of Adolf Loos—dílo v českých zemích / Adolf Loos—Works in the Czech Lands, edited by Maria Szadkowska, and Junge Meister: Architekten aus der Schule Otto Wagners in Mähren und Schlesien, by Jindřich Vybíral, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 1 (March 2011): 124-26.
“The Aschermanns: The Forgotten Beginnings of Modern American Design,” The Magazine Antiques 178, no. 1 (January-February 2011): 222-31 (with Aurora McClain).
Review of Josef Hoffmann Selbstbiographie, edited by Peter Noever and Marek Pokorný, in Design Issues 27, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 98-100.
Review of Auguste Perret, die Architekturdebatte und die konservative Revolution in Frankreich 1900-1930, by Christian Freigang, and Adolf Loos: Works and Projects, by Ralf Böck, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 4 (December 2010): 586-88.
“’Hamstering,’ or the Joys and Uses of Architectural History,” in Richard L. Cleary, ed., Traces and Trajectories: The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture at 100 (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture/Center for American Architecture, 2010): 75-78. 11
“A Rediscovered Interior by Paul Frankl,” Important 20th Century Design, Auction in New York 16 June 2010, Sotheby’s New York (New York: Sotheby’s, 2010): 62- 69.
“Adolf Loos and the Biedermeier Revival in Vienna,” in Centropa 10, no. 2 (May 2010): 128-40.
“Biedermeier/Neo-Biedermeier: Introduction,” in Centropa 10, no. 2 (May 2010): 78.
Review of “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury,” in Design and Culture 2, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 237-40.
Review of Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, edited by Judith Barter, in Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1285 (April 2010): 255-56.
Review of Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living, by Phyllis Ross, in Luke Beckerdite, ed., American Furniture 2009 (Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation/Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2009): 159- 62.
Review of Wittgenstein’s House: Language, Space, and Architecture, by Nana Last, in Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics 44 (New series: 2), no. 2 (2009): 230-33.
“Design and Reform: The Making of the Bauhaus,” in The Magazine Antiques 176, no. 4 (October 2009): 78-87.
“The Origins and Context of Adolf Loos’s “Ornament and Crime,” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68, no. 2 (June 2009): 200-23.
“Architecture: The Built Object,” in Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird, eds., History Beyond the Text: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (London: Routledge, 2009): 154-74.
“Kem Weber and the Rise of Modern Design in Southern California,” in The Magazine Antiques 175, no. 5 (May 2009): 96-103.
Review of Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky: Life as a Voyage, edited by Monika Platzer, and Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in Psychoanalytic Culture, by Sylvia Lavin, in Harvard Design Magazine 29 (Fall-Winter 2008-2009): 161-64, 167.
Review of Oskar Strnad—1879-1935, edited by Iris Meder and Evi Fuks, and Moderat Modern: Erich Boltenstern und die Baukultur nach 1945, edited by Judith Eiblmayr and Iris Meder, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 4 (December 2008): 610-13.
“Paul T. Frankl’s Skyscraper Furniture,” in The Magazine Antiques 173, no. 1 (January 2008): 162-71.
Review of James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment, edited by Martica Sawin, and Architekturgeschichte und kulturelles Erbe—Aspekte des Baudenkmalpflege in Ostmitteleuropa, edited by Beate Störtkuhl, in FutureAnterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory and Criticism, GSAPP, Columbia University 4, no. 3 (Winter 2007): 86-94.
Review of SvM: Die Festschrift für Stanislaus von Moos, edited by Karin Gimmi, 12
Christof Kübler, Bruno Maurer, Robin Rehm, Klaus Spechtenhauser, Martino Stierli, and Stefanie Wenzler, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66, no. 4 (December 2007): 543-45.
Review of Art, Design and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920, by Elizabeth Clegg, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 15, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2007- 2008): 194-97.
Review of Josef Hoffmann Interiors, 1902-1913, edited by Christian Witt-Dörring, in Centropa 7, no. 3 (September 2007): 286-88.
“Paul T. Frankl: Pioneer of Modern American Design,” in Modernism 10, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 74-83.
Review of Ernst Plischke: The Complete Work, by August Sarnitz and Eva Ottillinger, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66, no. 2 (June 2007): 263-65.
“The Viennese Secessionsstil and Modern American Design,” in Studies in the Decorative Arts 14 (Spring-Summer 2007): 6-44.
“The Wiener Werkstätte at 100,” review essay, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 14 (Spring-Summer 2007): 166-70.
Review of In Wien erbaut: Lexikon Wiener Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts, by Helmut Weihsmann, in Centropa 7, no. 2 (May 2007): 204.
Review of Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-siecle Vienna, by Leslie Topp, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 14 (Fall-Winter 2006-2007): 113-15.
“Wiener Wohnkultur: Interior Design in Vienna, 1910-1930,” in Mark Taylor and Julieanna Preston, eds., Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Chichester, England: Wiley-Academy, 2006): 187-93.
Review of Modern American Silver—20th Century Design, by Jewel Stern, in Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1239 (June 2006): 427-28.
Review of Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism, by Mari Hvattum, in Harvard Design Magazine 24 (Spring-Summer 2006): 106-08.
Review of Karel Honzík: Beyond the Horizon of Objectivity, edited by Dita Dvořáková-Robová, in Centropa 6:1 (January 2006): 82-83.
Review of Czech Architecture and Its Austerity, by Rostislav Švácha, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 53 (2005): 606-07.
“Victor Gruen,” in Encyclopedia of the City, edited by Roger W. Caves. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005): 219-20.
Review of Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, by Anthony Vidler, in Harvard Design Magazine 23 (Fall-Winter 2005): 114-16.
“Frankl, Paul T. (1886-1958),” in Soar Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, edited by Dankmar Trier (Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur Verlag, 2005), vol. 44: 99.
“Battle Hall,” in Placenotes, No. 1: Austin, edited by Kevin Keim (Austin: Charles Moore Center for the Study of Place/University of Texas Press, 2005), no. 29.
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“Emerging Methodologies in Central European Art and Architecture: Introduction,” in Centropa 5 (January 2005): 2.
“Paul T. Frankl.” In Modernist 20th Century, 6 June 2004, Wright. Chicago: Wright Auctions, 2004: 2.
Review of Nikolaus Pevsner—Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks, edited by Stephen Games, in Harvard Design Magazine 21 (Fall 2004- Winter 2005).
“’The Works of Our People’: Dušan Jurkovič and the Slovak Folk Revival,” in Studies in the Decorative Arts 12 (Fall 2004-Winter 2005): 2-29.
Review of Gustav Stickley, by David Cathers, and Greene & Greene by Edward Bosley, in The Burlington Magazine CXLVI, no. 1215 (June 2004): 411-12.
Review of Die Architektur und ich. Eine Bilanz der österreichischen Architektur seit 1945 vermittelt durch ihre Propagandisten, edited by Maria Welzig and Gerhard Steixner, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 16, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 13, 21.
“Austria,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): I, 91-94.
“Josef Frank,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): I, 471-72.
“Richard Neutra,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): II, 917-19.
“Joseph Maria Olbrich,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): II, 950-51.
“Steiner House,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): III, 1247-48.
“Vienna Secession,” in ed. R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth- Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): III, 1409-10.
“Otto Wagner,” in R. Stephen Sennott, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, 3 vols. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): III, 1427-29.
Review of New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940, exh. cat., edited by Renée Price, with Pamela Kort and Leslie Topp; and Central European Avant- Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, exh. cat., edited by Timothy O. Benson, with Monika Król, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 11 (Fall 2003-Winter 2004): 124-27.
“The Business of Beauty: Paul T. Frankl,” in Over the Top: Helene Rubenstein —Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design, edited by Suzanne Slesin (New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2003): 38-39, 47.
Review of Jan Kotěra 1871-1923: The Founder of Modern Czech Architecture, edited by Vladimir Šlapeta, in Centropa 3 (September 2003): 277-79.
Review of Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte, edited by Peter Noever, in The Burlington Magazine CXLV, no. 1203 (June 2003): 458-59.
“Adolf Loos’s Das Andere,” Platform (Spring 2003): 4. 14
Review of Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-gardes, 1910- 1930, edited by Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács, in Centropa 3 (May 2003): 163- 64.
“The Werkstätte Hagenauer: Design and Marketing in Vienna Between the World Wars,” in Studies in the Decorative Arts 10 (Spring-Summer 2003): 2-20.
Review of The Historiography of Modern Architecture, by Panayotis Tournikiotis in Harvard Design Magazine 17 (Fall 2002-Spring 2003): 86-88.
“East Central Europe: National Identity and International Perspective,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 61 (December 2002): 519-29.
“Paul T. Frankl in New York, 1914-1917,” in Studies in the Decorative Arts 9 (Spring- Summer 2002): 2-32.
“Adolf Loos’s Trotzdem,” in Harvard Design Magazine 16 (Winter-Spring 2002): 64-66.
Review of Joseph Urban: Die Wiener Jahre des Jugendstilarchitekten und Illustrators, 1872-1911, by Markus Kristan; Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban, edited by Arnold Aronson; Bertold Löffler: Vagant zwischen Secessionismus und Neobiedermeier, edited by Erika Patka, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 9 (Fall-Winter 2001-2002): 147-50.
“Gedanken beim Entwurf eines Grundrisses: Space and Promenade in Oskar Strnad’s Hock and Wassermann Houses, 1912-14,” in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 49, no. 6 (2001): 520-30.
“An Alternative Path to Modernism: Carl König and Architectural Education at the Vienna Technische Hochschule, 1890-1913,” Journal of Architectural Education 55 (September 2001): 21-30.
Review of The Pyramid, the Prism, and the Arc: Czech Cubist Architecture, 1911-1923, by Rostislav Švácha, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 49 (2001): 472-74.
Review of Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos’s Cultural Criticism, by Janet Stewart, in Harvard Design Magazine 14 (Summer 2001): 81-83.
Review of Villa Müller, edited by Karel Ksandr, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 49 (2001): 182-84.
Review of Otto Wagner: Baukunst des Eros, 1889-1899, by Otto Antonia Graf; and Otto Wagner, denkend zeichnen, zeichnend denken: zur diagraphischen Methodologik, by Otto Antonia Graf, in Studies in the Decorative Arts 8 (Spring- Summer 2001): 143-46.
“The House as Path and Place: Spatial Planning in Josef Frank's Villa Beer, 1928- 1930,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59 (December 2000): 478-501.
Review of The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934, by Eve Blau; Romanian Modernism: The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940, by Luminita Machedon and Ernie Scoffham; and The Architecture of New Prague, 1895-1945, by Rostislav Švácha, in Design Book Review 43 (Fall 2000): 50-54.
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“’A Symptom of the Werkbund’: The Spring 1912 Exhibition at the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Vienna,” Studies in the Decorative Arts 7 (Spring- Summer 2000): 91-121.
Review of Paul Engelmann 1891-1965: Architektur, Judentum, Wiener Moderne, edited by Ursula A. Schneider; and Paul Englemann und das mitteleuropäische Erbe: Der Weg von Olmütz nach Israel, edited by Judith Bakacsy, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 48 (Spring 2000): 109-11.
“Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1815–1989,” in Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, edited by Richard Frucht (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000): 35-37.
Review of Béla Lajta: ornamento e modernitá, edited by Marco Biraghi; The Architecture of Historic Hungary, edited by Dora Wiebenson and József Sisa; and Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918, by Ákos Moravánszky, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59 (March 2000): 118-21.
“Accidentism,” by Josef Frank, introduction and translation, in Platform (Spring 2000): 4-6.
Review of Das Bauhaus im Osten: slowakische und tschechische Avantgrade, 1928-1939, edited by Susanne Anna, Studies in the Decorative Arts 7 (Spring-Summer 2000): 142-44.
Review of The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934, by Eve Blau, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 11 (Fall 1999): 12-13.
Review of Josef Frank 1885-1967: Das architektonische Werk, by Maria Welzig, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58 (June 1999): 214-16.
Review of The Furniture of R. M. Schindler, Marla C. Berns, ed.; Otto Prutscher, 1880- 1949: Architektur, Interieur, Design, Matthias Boeckl, Gabriele Koller, and Erika Patka, eds.; Josef Zotti, architetto e designer: 1882-1953, by Roberto Festi; and Die Überwindung der Utilität: Dagobert Peche und die Wiener Werkstätte, Peter Noever, ed., in Studies in the Decorative Arts 6 (Spring-Summer 1999): 115-19.
“Imagery and Meaning in the Modern Architecture of Tel Aviv, 1930-1939,” in Platform (Spring 1999): 4-5.
“The Other Modern Dwelling: Josef Frank and Haus & Garten,” Working Papers in Austrian Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, no. 98-2, January 1999.
Review of Josip Plečnik: An Architect of Prague Castle, edited by Zdeněk Lukeš, Damjan Prelovšek, and Tomáš Valena; Jože Plečnik 1872-1957: Architectura Perennis, by Damjan Prelovšek; and Jože Plečnik: Städtebau im Schatten der Moderne, by Jörg Stabenow, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 57 (June 1998): 227-30.
“Modern Architecture in the Habsburg Empire and Its Successor States,” Bulletin of the Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture 3 (Winter 1998): 9-11.
Review of Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918, by Ákos Moravánszky, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 10 (Spring 1998): 12, 21. 16
“'Palaces of the Future': The Siedler Movement in Vienna, 1919-1923, ” in Building as a Political Act, edited by Randall Ott (Washington, D. C., ACSA: 1998): 84-88.
“Wiener Wohnkultur: Interior Design in Vienna, 1910-1938,” Studies in the Decorative Arts 5 (Fall-Winter 1997-1998): 29-51.
“Frankova kritika funkcionalism [Josef Frank's Critique of Functionalism],” Zlatý řez (Prague) 14 (Spring 1997): 4-7.
“A Voice for a Humane and Comfortable Modernism,” Platform (Winter 1997): 4-5.
Review of Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture, by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 9 (Winter 1997): 12.
“Ornament, Crime, Myth, and Meaning,” in Architecture: Material and Imagined, edited by John K. Edwards (Washington, D. C.: ACSA Press, 1997): 440-45.
“Modern Swedish Glass Design,” Scandinavian Review 84 (Winter 1996): 48-52.
Review of The Architecture of New Prague, 1895-1945, by Rostislav Švácha, in Slavic Review 55 (Fall 1996): 668-69.
“Josef Frank: The Making of Modern Swedish Design,” Scandinavian Review 84 (Autumn 1996): 56-62.
“Jože Plečnik in Vienna and Prague, 1901-1921: The Search for Architectural and Cultural Identity,” in Slovene Studies, Special issue on Jože Plečnik 18/2 (1996): 171-80.
Review of Krakau unter österreichischer Herrschaft 1846-1918. Faktoren seiner Entwicklung, by Jacek Purchla, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 44, no. 2 (1996): 296.
Review of Kunst in Österreich 1945-1995, edited by Patrick Werkner, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 8 (Fall 1996): 12-13.
“Oswald Haerdtl” in Jane Shoaf Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. (London: Macmillan, Press, 1996): 14: 25.
“Friedrich Ohmann,” in Jane Shoaf Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. (London: Macmillan Press, 1996): 23, 372.
“Otto Prutscher,” in Jane Shoaf Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. (London: Macmillan Press, 1996): 25, 673-74.
“Oskar Strnad,” in Jane Shoaf Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. (London: Macmillan Press, 1996): 29, 777.
“Ernst A. Plischke,” in Jane Shoaf Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. (London: Macmillan Press, 1996): 25, 48.
Review of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect, by Paul Wijdeveld, in Austrian History Yearbook 27 (1996): 346-47.
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Review of The Texas Rangers, Notes from an Architectural Underground, by Alexander Caragonne, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 99 (January 1996): 430-31.
Review of Plečnik: The Complete Works, by Peter Krečić, and Jože Plečnik, Architect: 1872–1957, edited by Francois Burkhardt, Claude Eveno, and Boris Podrecca, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (March 1995): 98-100.
Review essay: “A Sea Change in the History of Viennese Modernism,” Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 43: 6 (1995): 601-3.
Review essay: “Modernist Architecture in Prague,” in Austrian Studies Newsletter 7 (Fall 1995): 14.
Review of Villa Müller: A Work of Adolf Loos, by Leslie van Duzer and Kent Kleinman, in Umění: Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 43: 1-2 (1995): 182-84.
Review of Josef Plečnik, 1872–1957, Architectura perennis, by Damjan Prelovšek, Austrian History Yearbook, 26 (1995): 291-92.
Review of Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity, edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (September 1994): 363-64.
“Josef Hoffmann,” in Randall J. Van Vynckt, ed., International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, 2 vols. (Detroit and London: St. James Press, 1993): I, 395-97.
“Adolf Loos,” in Randall J. Van Vynckt, ed., International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, 2 vols. (Detroit and London: St. James Press, 1993): I, 527-59.
“Joseph Maria Olbrich,” in Randall J. Van Vynckt, ed., International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, 2 vols. (Detroit and London: St. James Press, 1993): I, 623-25.
“Secession Building,” in Randall J. Van Vynckt, ed., International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, 2 vols. (Detroit and London: St. James Press, 1993): II, 122-23.
“Im Garten Eden: Frank Lloyd Wrights Erbe,” Architektur & Bauforum 24 (1991): 49–51.
“Is Modernism Really Dead?,” in Birgit Wagner and Ernst Strouhal, eds., Falter, special issue: Ach ja, die Postmoderne. Vienna: Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Summer 1987: 6.
SELECTED “The Königschule and Its Legacies,” at the symposium “Design Dialog: Der jüdische Beitrag PAPERS AND der Wiener Moderne,” Museum für angewandte Kunst / Universität für angewandte LECTURES Kunst, Vienna, October 13, 2016
“The Central European Émigrés and the Varieties of Southern California Modernism,” Department of Design History and Theory, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, May 23, 2016
“Kem Weber and Jock Peters: Two Forgotten Central European Designers in America,” Arbeitskries österreichischer Architektur, Wien Museum, Vienna, May 13, 2016
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“The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture,” The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Sackler Research Forum, London, May 9, 2016
“Bauhaus Design and Its Legacies,” at the symposium “Bauhaus: Origins and Legacy,” Palm Springs Art Museum / Architecture and Design Council, Palm Springs, California, January 30, 2016
“The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture,” Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Santa Chiara, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, October 27, 2015
“Josef Frank and Paul T. Frankl: Two Tales of the Wiener Moderne Abroad,” at Émigré Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design, Papanek Symposium 2015, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, May 27, 2015
“Adolf Loos and the Strategy of Sorting,” Europské hlavní město kultury, Pilsen, Czech Republic, May 21, 2015
“Kem Weber and the Search for Modern American Design,” Sally Claire Haseltine Annual Lecture on the History of Design and the Decorative Arts, University of Oregon, April 29, 2015
“Der Fall Loos—Buchpräsentation,” Wien Bibliothek—Loos Räume, Vienna, March 25, 2015
“The Roots of the Barcelona Pavilion,” Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic, March 23, 2015
“Viennese Design Abroad: Two Case Studies,” Dallas Museum of Art, November 15, 2014
“Kem Weber: Designer and Architect,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 12, 2014
“Kem Weber: Designer and Architect,” Santa Barbara Architecture Foundation, November 11, 2014
“Paul T. Frankl in New York and Los Angeles,” Society of Architectural Historians, Southern California chapter, Los Angeles, March 8, 2014
“Paul T. Frankl: Autobiography,” DOCOMOMO, Southern California chapter, Los Angeles, March 7, 2014
“Paul T. Frankl in New York and Los Angeles,” Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 4, 2014
“Four Viennese and Modern American Design: The Hoffmanns, Kiesler, and Frankl,” Hoffmann Museum—Moraská galerie, Brno, and Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna—Brtnice, Czech Republic, October 13, 2013
“Adolf Loos: Space and Procession,” Villa Müller / Muzeum Hlavního Město Prahy, Prague, October 10, 2013
“Paul T. Frankl: Ein Wiener Designer in New York und Los Angeles,” Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung, Vienna, October 4, 2013
“’Repeat Yourself’: Loos, Law, and the Culture of the Copy,” (panel discussion) Architetkturzentrum Wien, Vienna, June 26, 2013 19
“The Looshaus,” Akademie výtvarných uměni (Academy of Fine Arts), Prague, March 21, 2013
“Adolf Loos and the Strategy of Sorting,” Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Art), Vienna, March 13, 2013
“Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design,” High Museum, Atlanta, February 10, 2013
“Josef Frank and the Wiener Moderne,” Wien Museum, Vienna, November 22, 2012
“Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Planning Ideas in Mies, Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Scharoun,” Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic, November 19, 2012
“Kem Weber and the Disney Studio: Making the Modern Workplace,” at the conference “Material Cultures in the Space Between,” Brown University, June 15, 2012
“What Isn’t California Modern Design?” panel discussion at the symposium “Icon and Anonymity: What is California in Architectural History?” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 19, 2012
“The Looshaus,” Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, Florida, April 19, 2012
“Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas in Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Schindler,” Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, March 16, 2012
“The Looshaus,” Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, UK, March 7, 2012
“Modern American Design Between the World Wars: Two Case Studies,” University of Wolverhampton, UK, March 6, 2012.
“Modern American Design Between the World Wars: Two Case Studies,” Universität Wien, Vienna, June 3, 2011
“Plečnik and King Minos: Archaism and Meaning in the Prague Castle Stair,” at the Czech Studies conference “Prague as Represented Space,” Universität Regensburg, Germany, May 27, 2011
“Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas in Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Schindler,” Vysoká uměleckoprů myslová (University of Art, Architecture and Design), Prague, May 24, 2011
“The New Space: Perception and Experience in Early Viennese Modernism,” Emory University, March 14, 2011
“Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas in Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Schindler,” Birkbeck College, University of London, March 9, 2011
“The Looshaus,” Royal Institute of British Architects, London, March 8, 2011
“The Looshaus: A Building in Context,” Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Santa Chiara, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, October 11, 2010
“Kem Weber and California Modernism,” Royal College of Art / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, October 8, 2010 20
“Kem Weber and the Rise of Modern Design in Southern California,” Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, June 2, 2010
“Erno Fabry and the Strnad Circle: An Alternative Modernism in Interwar Vienna,” at the symposium “Transplanting Modernism: Erno Fabry, European Design, and the American Sense of Home,” Evergreen Museum and Library, Johns Hopkins University, September 26, 2009
“Paul T. Frankl’s Skyscraper Furniture,” Art Institute of Chicago, April 14, 2009
“Paul T. Frankl and the Making of Modern American Design, 1920-1926,” at the symposium “American Modernist Design, 1920-1940,” Yale University Art Gallery, October 30, 2004.
“Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana: The Search for National Identity,” at the “Con/De/Recon- struction of South Slavic Architecture” symposium, Cornell University, March 31, 2001
“An Alternative Modernism? The Architecture of the Königschule in Fin-de-siècle Vienna,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Miami, June 17, 2000
“Architecture in Brno from Historicism to Functionalism, 1880-1930,” at the “A Tale of Three Cities: Janáček's Brno Between Vienna and Prague” symposium, University of London, October 23, 1999
“Paul T. Frankl and the Promotion of Good Design,” Heinz Architecture Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, June 18, 1999
“Jože Plečnik in Vienna and Prague: The Search for Cultural and National Identity,” American American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual meeting, Boca Raton, Florida, September 27, 1998
“Space, Path, Time, and Place: Spatial Planning in Josef Frank's Houses, 1910-1938,” Kulturhuset, Stockholm, August 19, 1998
“'Palaces of the Future': The Siedler Movement in Vienna, 1919-1923,” at the conference “Building as a Political Act,” Technische Universität, Berlin, June 1, 1997
“Ornament, Crime, Myth, and Meaning,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual meeting, Dallas, March 17, 1997
“Modern Architecture in Vienna between the Wars: Continuity, Compromise, Concession,” Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 20, 1997
“Josef Frank and the Architecture of the Accidental,” Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York, February 18, 1997
“Space for Living: The Houses of Josef Frank,” Department of Art History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, February 17, 1997
“Vienna After the Fin de siècle: Modern Visions, Modern Realities,” in the series “The Urbanity of Modernity,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, June 19, 1996
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“'One Can Use Everything That Can Be Used': Josef Frank, Modernism and Tradition,” at the symposium “Re:Constructing the Modern Movement in Architecture and Design, 1919-1939,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, May 17, 1996
“The Human Scale: Lessons for the Present,” School of Architecture, Czech Technical University (ČVUT), Prague, March 16, 1995
“The Persistence of Memory: Identity, Context, and History,” History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture Department, Central European University, Prague, March 9, 1995
“Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, and the Search for a New Way of Living,” Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, November 1, 1994
“The Stone Veil: Adolf Loos and Semper’s Bekleidungsprinzip,” Department of History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture, Central European University, Prague, October 21, 1994
“Josef Frank and the Critique of the Modern Movement,” School of Architecture, Royal Technical University, Stockholm, September 28, 1993
“Josef Frank: Four American House Projects,” Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, April 21, 1990
“‘Das Haus als Weg und Platz’: Spatial Planning in the Architecture of Josef Frank,” Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting, Montreal, April 14, 1989
LANGUAGES German (fluent); Czech, French (reading)
PROFESSIONAL Society of Architectural Historians AFFILIATIONS Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture Decorative Arts Society National Trust for Historic Preservation Conseil International des Monuments et des Sites (ICOMOS) US/ICOMOS
WORK IN Jock Peters and the Varieties of Modernism (book) PROGRESS Vital Links: Austrian and German Émigré Designers and the Advent of American Modernism (book, with Jewel Stern)
Making Home: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Everyday Life (exhibition catalog, editor with Monica Penick)
A Critical Modernism: Austrian Architecture Between the Two World Wars (book)