Danilo François Udovički-Selb, PhD Associate Professor Architecture History and Theory Center for European Studies, Center for Russian, East-European and Eurasian Studies University of Texas at Austin Citric / U.S. correspondent, board member Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Carlo Olmo, Director Member at large "International Committee for the Preservation of the VHUTEMAS Legacy," Moscow, Russia Director UT Paris Program / Joint appointment ENSA Paris-Belleville EDUCATION 1996 PhD, MIT, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture 1980 MA Philosophy, Boston College 1977 BA Architecture, University of Belgrade AREAS OF CONCENTRATION Critical History and Theory of Modern Architecture Architecture France 20th Century Architecture Russia / USSR, 20th Century Architecture Criticism (US Correspondent & Board of Il Giornale dell’Architettura),Torino. Awards 2004 • CASVA Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art, Washington (45 000) 2003 • Graham Foundation for Advanced Visual Arts Studies, Grant (10 000) MONOGRAPHS • Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Modern Architecture under Stalin’s Perestroika, 1928-1940. Contract with Bloomsbury (London). Forthcoming 2018. • Soviet Modernist Architecture (1917-1991) As a section of the Anthology Architectural Theory: A Global Perspective. Nnamdi Elleh, Head Editor, Contract, Princeton Architectural Press, NJ. Forthcoming 2019. • NARKOMFIN: Moisej J. Ginzburg, Ignatij F. Milinis, editor (Austin Berlin: O’Neil Ford & Ernst Wasmuth Verlag) 2015. • The Evolution of Soviet Architectural Culture Under Stalin’s ‘Cultural Revolution, 1928-1932’ (Trondheim: University of Norway at Trondheim), 2009. • Juni 1968: Od kritike svega postojeceg, do unistenja svega postignutog. (Novi Sad: Kisa), 2008.[MEMOIRES] Udovicki-Selb 1 CHAPTERS in Books (Selected) 86693530 • “Between Vanguard and Establishment: Boris Iofan’s Two ‘World Pavilions,’ Paris1937 and New York 1939,” in Measuring Against the West: A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture (Rutledge: Abingdon- on-Thames), 2017. • “O fim de um estilo-tipo nas Exposições Internacionais: Jacques Gréber, arquiteto-chefe da Exposição Internacional de Paris 1937.” ‘The End of a World Exposition’s Controlling Style: Jacques Gréber, Planner of the 1937 Paris International Exposition, “ in Exposições Internacionais – Entre o Jardim E A Paisagem Urbana: Do Palácio de Cristal do Porto (1865) à Exposição de Paris (1937). International Expositions – Between Garden And Townscape. From The Porto Crystal Palace (1865) To The Paris Exhibition (1937) (Porto: Fundação Seralves) Forthcoming, 2017. • “L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu: The Invention of Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions » in Architecture of Great Expositions (Ashgate: London), 2015. • "The Turning Point : The Lenin Library Competition," Monograph in memoriam of architectural historian Selim Khan-Magomedov, Khan Magomedov’s Readings (Moscow- Saint Petersburg: Kolo), 2015. • “Sur les routes des Balkans: Genèse des «Cinque Points de l’Architecture»? in L’Invention d’un Architecte, Le Corbusier et le « Voyage en Orient » (Paris : Fondation Le Corbusier), 2013. • “Les Engagements de Charlotte Perriand pour L’Exposition de 1937: Le Corbusier, Les Jeunes ’37, Le Front Populaire) Exhibition Catalogue (Paris: Centre Pompidou), 2007. • "Les Constructivistes face à Staline: Sanatoriums méconnus des Années Trente de Moscou au Caucase," in Les Hôpitaux Modernes: Survie et restauration (Paris: Cité de l'Architecture / Palais de Chaillot /DOCOMOMO International), August 2008. • “In the Shadow of Stalin: The Swan’s Song of Mojsej Ginzburg at Kislovodsk” in The Architecture of Hospitals (Groningen University Press), 2007. • “’Cétait dans l’air du temps”: Charlotte Perriand and the Popular Front,” lead essay in Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living. Ed. Mary McLeod, (New York: Abrams), 2004. Udovicki-Selb 2 • “Elusive Faces of Modernity: Jacques Gréber and the Planning of the 1937 Paris World Fair,” in Special Issue Urban History Review / Revue d’Histoire Urbaine, Canada vol. XXIX, No. 2 (March 2001), 20. • “Fitting out the Logis, Fitting out the City: Le Corbusier’s 1937 ‘International Laboratory of the Dwelling,’ at the International Exhibition of 1937 in Paris.” Infrastructures Villes et Territoires, (Paris: L'Harmattan), 2000. • Projets et Concours,” in Exposition de Paris, 1937: Ciquantenaire, Ed., Bertrand Lemoine, Exhib. Cat. (Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne / IFA, 1987). ], 25 REPUBLIKA ESSAYS in Refereed Journals • “Reinventing Paris: The Competitions for the 1937 International Exposition in Paris” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,VOLUME ETC Spring 2015. • "Facing Hitler's Pavilion: The Uses of Modernity in the Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Expo Journal of Contemporary History, Special edition (JCH), Vol. 47, N. 1, Jan. 2012. • “Elusive Faces of Modernity: Jacques Gréber and the Planning of the 1937 Paris World Fair,” in Special Issue Urban History Review / Revue d’Histoire Urbaine, Canada vol. XXIX, No. 2 (March 2001). • "Between Modernism and Socialist Realism: Soviet Architectural Culture Under Stalin’s ‘Revolution from Above’”, 1928-1930.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" (JSAH ,VOLUME ETC), December 2009. • “Le Corbusier and the 1937 Paris Exposition: The Temps Nouveaux Pavilion” in Journal of Architectural Historians (JSAH) (March 1997) Scholarly Reviews • Ivan Leonidov 1902-1959 ed. Alessandro De Magistris & Irina Korob’ina (Milano) in Journal of Architectural Historians, Vol etc: Electaarchitettura Patricia Morton, Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition. Paris (Cambridge MA: MIT Press), 2000 for CAA, Electronic Reviews, January 2000. Viktor Shidovsky photographs: Yekaterina Shorban , Russian Architecture and the West (London: Yale University Press)for the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) , January 2007 Udovicki-Selb 3 Invited lectures “Between the ‘Retour à L’ordre’ and the “Neue Architektur”: Jacques Gréber, Planner Of The Paris 1937 International Exposition” Fundação Ceralves. Serralves Academic Foundation Oporto, Portugal, February 5, 2016 “Brunelleschi’s Secret” Colloquium “Deep History,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Honor of Prof. David Friedman (MIT) May 3, 2014. UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST, International Symposium on East Europe Cultures and History “The representation of the Soviet Union at the Paris World’s Exposition, 1937, and New York 1939.” Budapest, May 2009 Norwegian University of Sciences "Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies.".(TSEECS), November 2008 Three half-hour talks over three weeks on the Cultural program of Radio Belgrade, October 2008 “Brunelleschi “Le Codex d’Amiens” Lecture series, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris- Belleville, November 2014. Saint Petersburg Conference on the Architecture in Totalitarian Regimes: “The Soviet, Italian and German Pavilions at the 1937 Paris World Fair” June 2011. Columbia University, Symposium on Charlotte Perriand, Chair Mary McLeod, December 1997 “Elusive Faces Of Modernity: The Decade Long Urban Debates On The Future Of Paris, 1930-1937” in Great Urban Events of the Twentieth Century Forthcoming, 2010. Moscow VHUTEMAS Conference: “The last Public debate on the defense of Modernism at the Lenin Library Competition, 1928” December 2009 Provost International Learning Seminar, presentation “The Influence of Fascism on Architecture in Italy”, May 2008 Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art,1997 invited Seminar Participant. Topic: “Totalitarianism and the landscape” February 1997 •ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, (Invited by Prof. Kurt Forster) Lecture and Seminar for the School June 1996 Udovicki-Selb 4 Conferences “Between European Renascence And Florentine Renaissance: A Transalpine “Scientia” At Brunelleschi’s Dome Of Santa Maria Del Fiore” 16th Annual International Conference on History & Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern, 2-5 July 2018, Athens, Greece “The Decade Long Urban Debates On The Future Of Paris, 1930-1937” International Conference, in Politécnico di Milano, Italy: Great Urban Events of the Twentieth Century, Milan, Italy Paper Annual Conference Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, 2006 “Moisej Ginzburg and the 1938 “Ordžonikidze” Sanatorium at Kislovodsk, DOCOMOMO, International Conference, Topic “Other Modernisms Istanbul /Ankara, Turkey, September, 2006. “Les Vicissitudes du Camouflage du Palais de Davioud pour l’Exposition de 1937” International Conference, Cité de L’Architecture, Paris, Topic: La Colline de Chaillot et ses Palais: Histoire, Architecture, Urbanisme, Décor Paris, France “Fitting out the Logis, Fitting out the City: Le Corbusier’s 1937 ‘International Laboratory of the Dwelling,” International Conference, ENSA Versailles, France. 1998. Colloquium at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, February 2004. • Invited as session respondent to "Beyond Constructivism: Soviet Early Modernist Architecture Revisited," at the European Architectural Historians Network (EAHN) in Dublin, Ireland. June 2-4, 2016. • Annual Conference Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Panel co-Chair “ Reassessing the Historiography of Socialist Architecture,” Pasadena, April 2016 • Annual Conference of the European Architecture History Network (EAHN) Invited Moderator “Beyond Constructivism: Soviet Early Modernist Architecture Revisited” Dublin June 2016