Amy Catania Kulper Curriculum Vitae

| 1 Amy Catania Kulper Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor of Architecture Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning The University of Michigan tel: 323.804.5434 [email protected]

_ Education: 2008 Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 1993 M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 1990 M.Arch. The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 1986 B.A. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. 1985 Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, N.Y.

_ Academic Appointments: 2006– Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan, Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI. 2004–2005 Lecturer, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. 2000–2003 Lecturer, UCLA, Department of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. 1996 Visiting Faculty Member, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 1993–1995 Supervisor, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

_ Doctoral Dissertation: The Ambiguity of Immanent Nature and Its Manifestations: The Contribution of Victor Horta (2007) Supervisor: Dr. Dalibor Vesely, Cambridge University

_ M.Phil. Dissertation: The Architecture of Earth Art (1993) Supervisor: Dr. Dalibor Vesely, Cambridge University

_ Professional Affiliations: 2012–2015 Editorial Advisory Board for Architecture and Culture the new journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association 2011–2012 Design Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education 2010–2012 Member of the Journal of Architectural Education’s Editorial Board 2010–2012 Member of the Design Committee for the Journal of Architectural Education

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_ Honors, Awards, Grants 2012 Recipient of Funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council - This funding convened a meeting of a network of world partners in Newcastle, UK, in October, and this group is currently drafting a proposal for EU funding for the SSH strand. The topic of the grant is Urbanism in an Age of Austerity, and I am representing and coordinating a group of Detroit collaborators.

2012 Nominated for the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, The University of Michigan.

2011 Recipient of the Spring/Summer Research Grant from the Rackham Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

2010–2011 Received a Michigan Faculty Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities and served as the Steelcase Research professor for the academic year.

2010 Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College, The University of Michigan.

2009 Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College, The University of Michigan.

2007 Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College, The University of Michigan.

_ Professional Associations: Society of Architectural Historians Architectural Humanities Research Association Association of Art Historians Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture

_ Peer Reviewed Dissemination Since Beginning Tenure Track: 3 Book Chapters: “Experimental Divide: The Laboratory as Analog for Architectural Production” in Experiments: Architecture Between Sciences and the Arts, ed. Akòs Moravansky and Albert Kirchengast, published in English and German (Berlin: Jovis, 2011), 92–115. Published in English and German.

“Private House, Public House: Victor Horta’s Ubiquitous Domesticity,” in Vittoria di Palma, Diana Periton and Marina Lathouri, eds., Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (New York: Routledge, 2009), 110–131.

“From Will to Wallpaper: Imaging and Imagining the Natural in the Domestic Interiors of the Art Nouveau” in Minsoo Kang and Amy Woodson Boulton, eds., Visions of the Industrial Age: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in European Culture, 1830–1914 (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 163–182.

4 Journal Articles: “Ecology without the Oikos: Banham, Dallegret, and the Morphologial Context of Environmental Architecture,” Field: A Free Journal for Architecture, Renata Tyszezuk and Stephen Walker, eds., no. 4 (2011 January), pp. 67–86.

“Encountering the List: Georges Perec and the Archive as Spatial Paradigm,” Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge, Axel Sowa and Susanne Schindler, eds., no. 3 (2010 December): 137–167. Published in English and German.

“Of Stylized Species and Specious Styles,” Journal of Architecture, vol. 11, no. 4 (2006 Sept.): 391–406.

“Almost Exactly: Realism at 7/8th Scale,” arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Adam Sharr and Richard Weston, eds., no. 17 (2013 November). Editing, copy-editing and permissions completed.

2 Publications From Peer Reviewed Conference: “On Architectural Knowledge and Expertise,” Discussion at the 3rd Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture, ptah.08: Building, Designing, Thinking, eds. Esa Laaksonen and Elina Penttinen (2009 January): 40–43.

“The Traditions of Antiquity,” Discussion with Bernard Cache at the 3rd Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture, ptah.08: Building, Designing, Thinking, eds. Esa Laaksonen and Elina Penttinen (2009 January): 68–73.

14 Peer Reviewed Conferences (1 Based on Full Paper, 12 Based on Abstracts): Co–Chair with Diana Periton of the ‘City Air’ Paper Session The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Conference, Detroit, MI Participants: Helen Mallinson (London Metropolitan University), Mark Dorrian (Newcastle University), Barbara Penner (The Bartlett, UCL), Enrique Ramirez (Princeton University) and Paul Emmons (Virginia Tech, Alexandria) (April 2012)

“Scientism: The Breeding Ground for Current Architectural Trends –or – Towards an Architectural Monoculture” After–Text: Post–Linguistic Paradigms for Architecture session, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 99th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebéc Accepted based on full paper submission. (March 2011)

“Cloud Cover: The Science and Art of Representing Weather” Climates of the Eighteenth–Century session, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference (ASECS), Vancouver BC Accepted based on abstract. (March 2011)

“Walking on Air: Architecture’s Immaterial Imagination” The Material Imagination from Antiquity to Modernity, a conference sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation at St. Andrews University, Scotland Accepted based on abstract. (November 2010)

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“Air Apparent: A Manifesto on Spatial Indeterminacy” Manifesto for Materials session at TAG2010: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archeology Group, Bristol University, Bristol, UK Accepted based on abstract. (December 2010)

“Science Fictions: The Role of the Laboratory and its Fictional Other in the Instrumentalization of Culture” Fictions of the Industrial Age Symposium, Loyola Marymount University Accepted based on abstract. (October 2009)

“Spatial Species: The Impetus to Collect, Catalogue and Construe in the Work of Walter Benjamin and Georges Perec” Constructing Knowledge – Das Wissen der Architektur – Conference RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Accepted based on abstract. (November 2009)

“The Double Life of Bios: Immanent Nature in its Autobiographical and Biological Guises” Second Annual Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto, Japan, Accepted based on abstract. (June 2009)

“Second Skin: Constructing the Egosphere in Experimental Architectural practices of the 1960s” 35th Association of Art Historians Conference, Manchester, UK Accepted based on abstract. (April 2009)

“Stranger than Fiction: The Laboratory and Experimental Architecture’s Pursuit of the Truth” Limits of Knowledge Conference for Emerging Scholars, University of California, Santa Barbara Accepted based on abstract. (February 2009)

“Experimental Divide: The Laboratory as Analog for Architectural Production” Colloquium entitled Experiments: Transfer of Scientific Methods in Architecture and Art sponsored by the ETH, Zurich in Hamburg, Germany Accepted based on abstract. (October 2008)

“Ask the Expert: The Role of Technique in the Quantification of Disciplinary Knowledge” Third International Alvar Aalto Meeting on the Research of Modern Architecture, The Alvar Aalto Academy, Jyväskylä, Finland Accepted based on abstract. (August 2008)

“Of Stylized Species and Specious Styles” Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia Accepted based on abstract. (April 2006)

“From Will to Wallpaper: Imaging and Imagining the Natural in the Domestic Interiors of the Art Nouveau” Images of the Industrial Age Symposium, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Accepted based on abstract. (May 2006)

_ Other Dissemination Since Beginning Tenure Track 1 Journal Article: “Realism: A Tautological Tale,” Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, no. 3 (July, 2012), pp. 3–4.

1 Book Review: Tahl Kaminer, “Architecture, Crisis, and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post–Fordism in Late–Twentieth– Century Architecture,” reviewed by Amy Catania Kulper, Architectural Theory Review, 16:3 (December 2011), pp. 312–314.

9 Invited Lectures: “Ropes and Rules: Architecture’s Disciplinary Problems” Lecture Delivered to the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute or Architects Panel Discussion with Carlos Martinez of Gensler Architects, Chicago and Mark Pasnik of Over, Under Boston Moderated by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson at the Maryland Institute College of Art (April 2013)

“Experimenting in Nature’s Laboratory: Viollet-le-Duc on Mont Blanc” Lecture delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Invited by Tulay Atak and Peter Tagiuri (November 2012)

“Immanent Natures” Lecture delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts (GSFA) Invited by David Leatherbarrow, Interim Chair, The Department of Architecture (January 2012)

“From Propriety to Property and Beyond: The Question of George Baird’s Influence” Lecture delivered at the Festschrift, George Baird: The Question Of Influence, at the University of Toronto Invited by Richard Sommer, Dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design (March 2012)

“Erased Imperatives: The Technical Imagination” Lecture delivered at Louisiana State University Invited to lecture by Jori Erdman, Director of the School of Architecture (October 2011)

“Taxonomy as Technique: From Genealogical to Generative” Lecture delivered as part of the midday lecture series Research Methodologies: Tools and Tactics at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at The University of Toronto Invited to lecture by Liat Margolis and Aziza Chaouni (March 2011)

“Flights of Imagination: Beyond Technique” Lecture delivered as a part of the evening lecture series at Bowling Green State University Invited to lecture by Katerina Rüedi Ray and Jon Stevens (March 2011)

“Beyond Technique: Tools of the Imagination” Constructing Imagination: A Symposium on the “Matter” of Architectural Scholarship, Washington Alexandria

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Architecture Center of Virginia Tech – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – Invited by the chair of the doctoral program, Paul Emmons. (January 2010)

“What? and How?” 2007 Architectural Education Summit 07, Los Angeles, CA (April) Invited by organizers to present this paper. (April 2007)

1 Invited Lecture within the University of Michigan: “In the Alpine Laboratory” Delivered the Inaugural Lecture for the Humanities Institute Brown Bag Lecture Series, The University of Michigan Invited to lecture by Daniel Herwitz, Director of the Humanities Institute http://lecb.physics.lsa.umich.edu/CWIS/SPT––BrowseResources.php?ParentId=644 (September 2011)

1 Invited Panel discussion within the University of Michigan: “Canan Tolon: Time After Time” Invited by Daniel Herwitz, Director of the University of Michigan Humanities Institute, to host a panel discussion with artist Canan Tolon (September 2012)

5 Taubman College Public Event Participations: “Nature’s Lapidarium: The Life of Ten Geological Specimens” Lecture delivered at Taubman College’s Geologic Turn Symposium Invited by conference organizer, Sanders Fellow Etienne Turpin, to give a paper (February 2012)

Respondent, Power Conference, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan Respondent to the ‘Power Points’ Panel with Cynthia Davidson, Keller Easterling, Roger Sherman, and Michael Sorkin (October 2011)

Future of History Conference, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan Moderator for the Operative Panel: Contemporaneity and Immediate Futures with Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ana Miljački, Simon Sadler, Peter Zellner (April 2011)

Future of Urbanism Conference, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan Moderator for the New Publics, New Public Spaces panel with Saskia Sassen, Christine Boyer, Dana Cuff, Bart Lootsma, and Alex Wall (March 2010)

“Double Agencies: The Tactics of Erasure and the Tyranny of the Detail” Pause Centennial Conference, University of Michigan, Taubman College Accepted based on abstract. (November 2006)

_ In Progress at This Time 2 Books Immanent Natures: The Laboratory as Paradigm for Architecture’s Experimental Practices, prospectus sent to The University of Minnesota Press, manuscript to be completed Summer 2013.

Domesticated Natures: Victor Horta and the Art Nouveau Interior, prospectus sent to Ashgate, manuscript completed in December 2012.

1 Special Issue of a Peer Reviewed Journal Upon invitation by editor, Charles Rice, Diana Periton and I have submitted a proposal for a special issue of the Journal of Architecture, entitled City Air, and based on our Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) panel discussion of the same title. I will co–edit the issue, co–author an introduction, and contribute an article entitled, “Airtight: Environments as Spatial Paradigms.” This special issue is slated for publication in the November 2013.

3 Peer Review Book Chapter “Gardens of the Mind: Art Nouveau Autobiographies, Preserving Immanent Natures,” in Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, edited by Henriette Steiner and Max Sternberg, (London: Ashgate), to be published Fall 2013.

“Architecture’s Lapidarium: The Life of Ten Geological Specimens,” in Architecture in the Anthropocene, edited by Etienne Turpin (Open Humanities Press), to be published in Fall 2013.

“Displaced Interior: The Reverberating Echos of Mackintosh’s Music Room,” in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the History of Architecture, David Leatherbarrow and Alexander Eisenschmidt, eds. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley- Blackwell Publishers), to be published Fall 2013.

1 Peer Review Journal Articles “Representing the Discipline: The Operations of Architecture’s Discursive Imagery,” Architecture and Culture: Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, Discipline and Dissidence, vol. 1, issue ½, to be published Fall 2013.

_ Teaching Commitments While on Tenure Track:

Doctoral Advising: 2012–2013 Primary Advisor for Wiltrud Simbuerger 2011–2013 Primary Advisor for Lori Smithey 2009–2013 Primary Advisor for Elizabeth Keslacy 2012–2013 Doctoral Committee Member for Joss Kiely 2012–2013 Doctoral Committee Member for Andrea Mihalache (Virginia Tech)

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Master’s of Science in Design Research (MS_DR) Advising:

2008–2009 Joint advisor with Jason Young for the following Master’s of Science in Design Research Students: Patrick Carmody, Ellen Donnelly, Melanie Kaba, Susan Massey, and Kaleena Quinn

2009–2010 Joint advisor with Jason Young for the following Master’s of Science in Design Research Students: Ross Hoekstra, Sean Houghton, Sen Liu, Patrick Lynch, Colin Richardson, and Claire Sheridan

Courses Taught: 2013: UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary architecture UM Graduate seminar – Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Arch 701– Master’s of Science in Digital Technology required theory course) UM Graduate seminar – Disciplinariity (Arch 603)

2012: UM Graduate seminar – Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar – Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies (Arch 603)

2011: UM Graduate seminar – Disciplinariity (Arch 603) UM Doctoral Dissertation Pre–Candidacy Independent Study (Arch 990) UM Doctoral Dissertation Candidacy Independent Study (Arch 995)

2010: UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary architecture UM Graduate Thesis Studio (Arch 662) – Heavy Weather UM MS_DR Thesis (Arch 739) UM Graduate seminar – Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies (Arch 603)

2009: UM Graduate seminar – Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Arch 603) UM MS_DR practicum – Teaching Practicum (Arch 721) UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary architecture

2008: UM MS_DR seminar – Instant Architect: Disciplinarity and Its Discontents (Arch 720) UM Required graduate seminar – Thesis Seminar (Arch 660)

UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary architecture UM Graduate seminar – Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 603)

2007: UM Graduate seminar – Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies: Contemporary Architecture and the Spatial Scientific Paradigm (Arch 603) UM Required graduate seminar – Thesis Seminar (Arch 660) UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary architecture UM Graduate seminar – Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 603)

2006: UM Required graduate lecture course – Architectural Theory and Criticism (Arch 572) – Modern Architecture in Perspective UM Required graduate seminar – Thesis Seminar (Arch 660) UM Graduate seminar – Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 603)

_ Professional Service: 2013 Served on Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) search committee for a new Executive Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education 2012 peer review of scholarly article for the Journal of Architecture (July)

2010 peer review of papers for the Architecture’s Responsive Extensions session of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 99th Annual Meeting (September)

2010 peer review of papers for the Back in the Box: Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia and Death session of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 99th Annual Meeting (September)

_Service – University of Michigan: 2011–2012 Computational Cluster Hire Search Committee

2010 Served on the Fullbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals at the graduate level.

2006 Served on the Fullbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.

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_ Service – Architecture Program, University of Michigan: 2012–2013 Coordinator of Graduate Admissions 2011–2012 Educational Planning Committee 2011–2012 Participated in Doctoral Admissions 2011–2012 Graduate Counseling for 2G and 3G advisees 2011–2012 Planning Committee for the Power Conference 2010–2011 Planning Committee for the Future of History Conference 2010–2011 Planning Committee for the Future of Technology Conference 2010–2011 Participated in Doctoral Admissions 2008–2009 Thesis Task Force 2008–2009 History/Theory Task Force 2008–2009 Advisor for five M.Sc. students in Design Research 2008–2009 Graduate Admissions Committee for 3G students 2008–2009 Participated in Doctoral Admissions 2008–2009 Graduate Counseling for 2G and 3G advisees 2007–2008 Educational Planning Committee 2007–2008 Search Committee for Design and Landscape position, Taubman College 2007–2008 Doctoral Admissions Committee Coordinator for the HT area 2007–2008 Graduate counseling for 2G and 3G advisees 2006–2007 Graduate admissions committee for 2G students 2006–2007 Doctoral admissions committee for the HT area 2006–2007 Graduate counseling for 2G and 3G advisees 2006 Served on the Fullbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels

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