People

Christina Cogdell

Associate Professor, Department of Design at UC Davis

Research Topic:  “Computer-Aided Organicism: The ‘Evolutionary’ Architecture and Design of Greg Lynn” (2012)

Research Topic: Mid-Nineteenth Century Homes in Nevada City (2013)

Christina Cogdell is author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (2004), winner of the 2006 Edelstein Prize, and co-editor of Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s (2006) and a special issue of Boom: A Journal of California on California Design (2012). She has published in Design and Culture, Design Issues, American Art, and American Quarterly, American Art. She is currently researching the influence of popular scientific theories of self-organization and emergence on contemporary architecture, and teaches courses in  the history of art, architecture, design and American culture.

Margaret Crawford

Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley

Research Topic: “Silicon Valley Urbanism” (2012)

Margaret Crawford (Ph.D. Urban Planning) is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She is the author of Building the Workingman’s Paradise (1990), co-author of Everyday Urbanism (1999, 2008) and co-editor of The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life, along with articles on shopping malls, World War II housing, counterculture architecture and other topics in the American built environment.

Lauren Gallow

Ph.D. Student, History of Art & Architecture at UC Santa Barbara

Research Topic: “The Everyday and the Vernacular in Postwar California Architecture” (2012)

Lauren Gallow (MA History of Art & Architecture) recently completed her Master’s thesis which was entitled “Modernism Remodeled: Branding the Image of Modernism in Dwell Magazine.” Her research focuses on modern and contemporary American art and architecture, especially the visual culture of architecture.

Catherine Gudis

Associate Professor, History Department, and Director, Public History Program at UC Riverside

Research Topic: “‘Things’: The Preservation of Los Angeles and the Marketing of Modernity, 1956-1970” (2012)

Cathy Gudis (Ph.D., American Studies), a 2011-12 Getty Scholar on the project Los Angeles Architecture, 1940-1990, is the author of Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape (2004) and co-editor of Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960 (2006) as well as numerous museum publications. Her academic work extends into the public realm through her Los Angeles-based projects with museums, historic preservation organizations, and city government. She is current working on a new book, Curating the City: The Framing of Los Angeles.

James Housefield

Assistant Professor, Department of Design at UC Davis

Research Topic: “California Design circa 1976-1981: Contextualizing WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing” (2012)

Research Topic: Rosicrucian Museum (San Jose) and the San Francisco Exploratorium  (2013)

James Housefield (Ph.D Art History), the recent recipient of a Hellman Fellowship, held a National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship between 2006-9. He has published in Geographical Review and Cultural Geographies, as well as anthology chapters, and is working on a book manuscript about Marcel Duchamp, astronomy and design. Housefield is interested in the connections between page design, architecture, and experience design.

Mark Kessler

Assistant Professor, Design Program at UC Davis

Research Topic: “Recent Architecture and the California Dream” (2012)

Mark Kessler (Master of Architecture) is writing a book on the historicist garages of San Francisco. He curated an exhibition on this topic that debuted at the San Francisco EcoCenter and travels to the San Francisco Museum next year. Kessler has published in the AIA Report on University Research and testified before the local Historical Preservation Commission. A practicing architect in the firm FACE until 2002, Kessler’s design work appears in Progressive Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design and Metropolis.

Waverly Lowell

Curator, Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley

Research Topic: Environmental Regionalism: The Sea Ranch and The University of California at Santa Cruz (2012)

Research Topic: Greenwood Common in Berkeley, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and Maybeck’s First Church of Christian Science in Berkeley (2013)

Waverly Lowell (MA Library Science, MA History) curates the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley and has won numerous awards for her archival work. She is author of Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common (2009) and co-author of Design on the Edge: 100 Years of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley (2010). Her exhibits include All Their Own: Designing for Themselves and Each Other and Building in the Landscape:The Sea Ranch & Making Places.

Sarah Rebolloso McCullough

Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies at UC Davis

Research Topic: “Cycling Deadheads: California Mountain Biking Culture and the Design of Nature” (2012)

Research Topic) Mt. Tamalpais (2013)

Sarah McCullough (ABD, MA in American Studies) has published in thirdspace: a journal of feminist thought and culture and co-authored an article for Fashion Theory. Her research interests include the design of “natural” bodies and spaces of “nature” through technology and culture. Her dissertation is on the history and culture of mountain biking, and the role of affect on the process of innovation. She is currently constructing a digital archive of primary sources from the early days of mountain biking.

Patricia Morton

Associate Professor, Department of History of Art at UC Riverside

Research Topic: “Pop Vernacular in Charles Moore’s California Architecture” (2012)

Research Topic: Sea Ranch (2013)

Patricia Morton (Ph.D., Architectural History, Theory and Criticism) is author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris, (2000; Japanese edition, 2002). She has published widely on topics around postmodern architecture and cultural and visual theory, and is currently developing new books on postmodern and colonial architectures.

Katherine Kaford Papineau

Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara

Research Topic: “Displaying Domesticity: Life in Mid-Twentieth Century Glass Houses” (2012)

Katie Papineau (ABD, MA History of Art and Architecture) most recently completed work on the forthcoming Pacific Standard Time show and exhibition catalog, “Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch, 1925-1960.” Her research focuses on post-war Los Angeles, mid-century domesticity, glass houses, material culture and collecting.

Michael Rios

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Design at UC Davis

Research Topic: “Marginality and the Prospects for Placemaking in Multi-Ethnic California” (2012)

Michael Rios (Ph.D. Geography) is a geographer and urban planner who is co-editing the forthcoming Placemaking in Latino Communities (2011). He has published in the Journal of Urban Design, Berkeley Planning Journal and Landscape Journal, as well as contributed chapters to anthologies on urbanism, placemaking and diversity.

Simon Sadler

Professor, Department of Design at UC Davis

Research Topic: “Managing the House of Eureka: Notes on California Design” (2012)

Research Topic: Sacramento Bateson Building (2013)

Simon Sadler (Ph.D. Art History) is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow and has been a Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art. He is author of Archigram: Architecture without Architecture (2005) and The Situationist City (1998), and co-editor of Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (2000). He is currently researching countercultural architecture and design since the 1960s.

Daniela Sandler

Assistant Professor, History of Art & Visual Culture Program at UC Santa Cruz

Research Topic:  “Instant Cities: California Mall Urbanism and Civic Life” (2012)

Daniela Sandler (Ph.D. Visual and Cultural Studies, Master of Architecture and Urbanism) has published chapters on the history and criticism of architecture and planning in São Paolo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany. She is currently writing a book entitled Counterpreservation: Architectural Design in Berlin since 1989.

Andrew Shanken

Associate Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley

Research Topic: “The Golden Gate Exposition of 1939 in the Context of the Pacific Rim” (2012)

Research Topic: Treasure Island (2013)

Andrew Shanken (Ph.D. Art History) is a UC President’s Research Fellow and the author of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront (2009). He has published in Future Anterior, Place, Art Bulletin, and the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, and he is working on book manuscript on the Architecture of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939.

Marc Treib

Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Thomas Church’s Donnell Garden (2013)

Marc Treib (Master of Architecture; Master of Arts in Design) has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. His books include An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (1995); Space Calculated In Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varèse (1996); Thomas Church, Landscape Architect (2004); Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens (2005); Drawing/Thinking (2008); Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape (2009); and Appropriate: The Houses of Joseph Esherick (2009).

Dell Upton

Professor, Department of History of Art at UCLA

Research Topic: “Housing Angelenos:  Varieties of Housing in Los Angeles ca. 1940” (2012)

Research Topic: Golden State Mutual Life (2013)

Dell Upton (Ph.D. American Civilization) is author of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (2008); Architecture in the United States (1998);  Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans, edited (1996); Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986; rpt. 1997);  Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture, edited with John Michael Vlach (1986). He was also Consultant and Principal Essayist, Art and the Empire City: New York 1825-1861, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. He is recipient of many major fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of Society of Architectural Historians (1987).

Heghnar Watenpaugh

Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis

Research Topic: “A Mosque Made in California: The Local, the Global and the Communal in the Design of the Islamic Center of Davis” (2012)

Research Topic: Old Armenian Town, Fresno, CA 1890s-1920s (2013)

Heghnar Watenpaugh (Ph.D. Art History) is the author of The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo, 16th-17th c. (2004), winner of the Spiro Kostof prize from the Society of Architectural Historians. She has received fellowships from the Getty Trust, the NEH, Fulbright-Hays, Social Science Research Council, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and the Office of the President of the University of California. She served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her research concerns Islamic architecture and the politics of heritage.

Jason Weems

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art at UC Riverside

Research Topic: “War Furniture: Charles and Ray Eames and the Wounded Body” (2012)

Research Topic: Los Angeles Aqueduct (2013)

Jason Weems (Ph.D., Art History) publishes on the history, theory, and criticism of American ] art, photography and visual/material culture. His forthcoming book is Barnstorming the Prairies: Aerial Vision and Modernity in Rural America, 1920-1940.

Volker M. Welter

Associate Professor, Department of History of Art & Architecture at UC Santa Barbara

Research Topic: “California Architecture: Masterpieces or Mass Buildings?” (2012)

Volker Welter (Ph.D. History of Architecture) is a recipient of a Senior Research Getty Grant and a Senior Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art who is the author of Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home (2011), Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (2002), Collecting Cities-Images from Patrick Geddes’ Cities and Town Planning Exhibition (1999), Gebaut-Erste Bauten Berliner Architekten / Built-First Commissions of Berlin Architects (1995). He has studied architecture and history of architecture and has worked in private practice, higher education, and archivist in a drawings collection.

Greg Castillo

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley

Research Topic: Charles Moore Home (2013)

Greg Castillo is an architectural historian and Associate Professor at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkley, as well as a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research, which has focused on the politics of design in the cold war era and its role in the cultural division of postwar Germany, has expanded to include California counterculture in a planned exhibition and edited anthology titled: Design Radicals: Berkeley in the ‘60s. He has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Ford Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles, anthology chapters, and the monograph Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (2010).

Mia Ritzenberg

MS/Ph.D. Student, History of Architecture at UC Berkeley

Research Topic: Julia Morgan’s Berkeley Women’s City Club (2013)

Mia Ritzenberg (MS Architecture expected May 2013) is putting the final touches on her master’s thesis entitled “California Canneries and Women’s Work, 1910s to 1930s: The Case of Emeryville’s Del Monte Plant #35.”  Her interests include women’s labor, industrial architecture, material culture, and turn-of-the-twentieth century urban America.

Brooke Devenney

Research Topic: “Southern California Cooperative Housing and the Influence of the Museum of Modern Art, 1937-1950.”

Research Topic: SoCal Co-op Housing and MoMA’s influence; Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan Building, Palm Springs (2013)

Brooke Devenney (M.A. Candidate) is currently the Curatorial Administrator at the Palm Springs Art Museum. She recently contributed to the preliminary restoration program for the Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan Building that will become the Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center. Her research focuses on the transfer of International Style modernism from Europe to Southern California and the influence of the Museum of Modern Art on the evolution of modern architecture and design.

Sabrina Richard

Research Topic: The Integral House, Berkeley, CA (2013)

Sabrina Richard is a doctoral student in Architectural History and Theory at UC Berkeley. She received her undergraduate degree at McGill University and her M.Arch from the University of Toronto. Sabrina is a previous Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, as well as a lecturer in Environmental Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Her research examines the relationship of architecture and urbanism to twentieth century film, media, and exhibitions.

Irene Cheng

Research Topic: Nineteenth-Century Octagon Houses in California (2013)

Irene Cheng is an architectural historian, critic, and designer, and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts. Her current project, entitled “The Shape of Utopia: Architectures of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America,” explores the geometry of  architectural projects affiliated with anarchist, socialist, abolitionist, free love, spiritualist, and other radical antebellum movements. She holds a BA in Social Studies, an M.Arch from Columbia, where she is completing a doctorate.