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Eric Mumford



Expertise: Modern architecture and urban design

Bio:
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Mumford, a licensed architect, teaches history/theory courses, including the required modern architectural history survey course, publishes peer-reviewed scholarly and lectures widely outside of the Sam Fox School. He is the author of The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (MIT Press, 2000), the only book-length history of the International Congress of Modern Architecture. He is also the editor and co-author of Modern Architecture in St. Louis: Washington University and Postwar American Architecture, 1948-1973 (WUSTL/University of Chicago Press, 2004).

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-6282
Fax:(314) 935-7656
E-mail:EPM@architecture.wustl.edu
Address:Campus Box 1079
One Brookings Drive
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Education:
  • Ph.D. in Architecture at Princeton University
  • Master's Degree in Architecture at Massachussetts Institute of Technology
  • A.B. in Architecture at Harvard University



Additional Background: He has published and lectured nationally and internationally on CIAM, on the urban design work and pedagogy of CIAM President and Harvard GSD Dean Jose Luis Sert, and on other aspects of twentieth century architecture and urbanism. He has received three Graham Foundation grants for various projects, most recently for his current book in progress on American urban design education in the 1950s and 1960s.

Forthcoming articles include one for the 2006 symposium, "Urban Design at Fifty," being organized by the Harvard Design School; another in the publication of the proceedings of the "Sert: Architect of Urban Design" conference held at Harvard in October 2003, a publication of which he is also co-editor; an essay on Sert's 1950 collaboration with artist Hans Hofmann in Xavier Costa, ed., Hans Hofmann: "The Chimbote Project" (Barcelona: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004); and an essay in Charles Waldheim, ed., Chicago Architecture: "Histories, Revisions, Alternatives," forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. In spring 2004 he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.


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Liam Otten
Senior News Writer
liam_otten@wustl.edu

(314) 935-8494
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Departments:
College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008




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