Amy Catania Kulper Curriculum Vitae

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1 1 Amy Catania Kulper Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor of Architecture Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning The University of Michigan tel: akulper@umich.edu Education: Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. M.Arch. The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. B.A. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, NY. Academic Appointments: 2006 Present Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, MI. Lecturer, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Lecturer, UCLA, Department of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Visiting Faculty Member, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Supervisor, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Doctoral Dissertation: 2007 The Ambiguity of Immanent Nature and Its Manifestations: The Contribution of Victor Horta (2007) Supervisor: Dr. Dalibor Vesely, Cambridge University M.Phil. Dissertation: 1993 The Architecture of Earth Art (1993) Supervisor: Dr. Dalibor Vesely, Cambridge University

2 2 Professional Affiliations: Honors, Awards, Grants: Professional Associations: Editorial Advisory Board for Architecture and Culture the new journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, UK Design Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education Member of the Journal of Architectural Education s Editorial Board Member of the Design Committee for the Journal of Architectural Education Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan. Applied for Graham Foundation Individual Grant to fund the design of the visual argument for the Immanent Natures book. The application advanced to the second round, and I was encouraged to apply next year once a publication contract was secured. Detroit Chair - Grant 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 is currently drafting a proposal for EU funding for the SSH strand. The topic of the grant is Urbanism in an Age of Austerity. Nominated for the Provost s Teaching Innovation Prize, a universitywide teaching award, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, The University of Michigan. Recipient of the Spring/Summer Research Grant from the Rackham Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research. Received a Michigan Faculty Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities and served as the Steelcase Research professor for the academic year. Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan. Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan. Received the Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan. Society of Architectural Historians Architectural Humanities Research Association Association of Art Historians Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture

3 3 Review Activities: List of Publications Books: 28 Forthcoming 27 Forthcoming Peer Reviewed Journal Special Issue: 26 (Spring 2015) 25 (Spring 2014) Peer Reviewed Book Chapters: 24 (Summer 2015) 23 (Spring 2015) 22 (2013) 21 (2011) 20 (2009) Journal of Architecture Journal of Architectural Education ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly Architecture and Culture Architectural Theory Review ACSA Paper Sessions Domesticated Natures: Victor Horta and the Art Nouveau Interior, under contract with Ashgate. Completed manuscript with Ashgate to be published Fall Immanent Natures: The Laboratory as Paradigm for Architecture s Experimental Practices, prospectus sent to The University of Minnesota Press. Manuscript to be completed Summer Co-editor with Diana Periton of a special issue of the journal Architecture and Culture, entitled Urban Atmospheres. Contributors include David Gissen, Sandra Kaji O Grady, Paul Carter and Brian Elliott. To be published by Taylor & Francis, Summer Co-editor with Diana Periton of a special issue of the Journal of Architecture, entitled City Air. Issue is based upon the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) panel discussion of the same name. Contributors include: Paul Carter, Mark Dorrian, Paul Emmons, Helen Mallinson, Barbara Penner, and Enrique Ramirez. 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). This will be part of a 6 volume set entitled, The Companion to the History of Architecture, with series editor Harry Mallgrave. To be published Summer Art Nouveau Gardens of the Mind: Bell Jars, Hot Houses, and Autobiographies, Preserving Immanent Natures, in Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, edited by Henriette Steiner and Max Sternberg, (Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing limited, 2015), Architecture s Lapidarium: The Life of Ten Geological Specimens, in Architecture in the Anthropocene, edited by Etienne Turpin (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Open Humanities Press, 2013), Experimental Divide: The Laboratory as Analog for Architectural Production in Experiments: Architecture Between Sciences and the Arts, ed. Akòs Moravansky and Albert Kirchengast (Berlin: Jovis, 2011), 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),

4 4 Peer Reviewed Book Chapters cont: 19 (2008) Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: 18 (Winter 2014) 17 (Spring 2014) 16 (Spring 2014) 15 (2013) 14 (2013) 13 (2011) 12 (2010) 11 (2006) Journal Articles: 10 (2015) 09 (2014) 08 (2014) 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, (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2008), Article selected by Architectural Review to be included in a selection of the finest writing in architectural research in The Education Issue - Of the seven essays selected, this essay was the only one also selected to appear in the print journal. See: Almost Exactly, The Architectural Review Academic Annual (2014): Judges: Matthew Barac, Susannah Hagan, Will Hunter, Sam Jacob, Deborah Staunt, Alexandra Stara, Anthony Vidler and Elia Zenghelis. Out of Character, Log 31 (Spring/Summer 2014): Special journal issue on the theme The New Ancients was launched with the opening of the Venice Biennale, curated by Rem Koolhaas. Air France: An Exploration of the Limits of Explication, The Journal of Architecture, vol. 19, no. 2 (April 2014): 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 1/2 (November 2013): Almost Exactly: Realism at 7/8th Scale, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Adam Sharr and Richard Weston, eds., vol. 17, no. 2 (2013): 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 (January 2011): Encountering the List: Georges Perec and the Archive as Spatial Paradigm, Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge, Axel Sowa and Susanne Schindler, eds., no. 3 (December 2010): Published in English and German. Of Stylized Species and Specious Styles, Journal of Architecture, vol. 11, no. 4 (September 2006): Amy Kulper and Diana Periton, Introduction: Urban Atmospheres, Architecture and Culture, vol. 3, no. 2 (July 2015). Amy Kulper and Diana Periton, Introduction: Explicating City Air, The Journal of Architecture, vol. 19, no.2 (April 2014): Amy Kulper and Sheila Crane, Design Agency: The New Heuristics, The Journal of Architectural Education, no. 68:2 (March 2014): 2-4.

5 5 Journal Articles cont: 07 (2013) 06 (2013) 05 (2012) Peer Reviewed Conference Publications: 04 (2015) 03 (2009) 02 (2009) Book Reviews: 01 (2011) Peer Reviewed Conference Papers: 15 (July 2015) 14 (April 2012) Introduction to the Design as Scholarship section of The Journal of Architectural Education, no. 67:2 (October 2013). The introduction rolls out three new features I have implemented as Design Editor: Design Frameworks, a Guest Curators feature, and a Pre- Fabrications column. Design Frameworks, a text that surveys trends in contemporary creative practice. I structured the piece, establishing the design framework categories with a few sentences of description. The members of the JAE Design Committee and I then fleshed out the categories with descriptive text. Authors: Marshall Brown, Blaine Brownell, Jori Erdman, Amy Kulper, Grace La, Graham Livesy, Kiel Moe, Nicholas de Monchaux, Aaron Sprecher, Beth Weinstein. The Journal of Architectural Education, no. 67:2, (October 2013). Realism: A Tautological Tale, Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, no. 3 (July 2012): 3 4. Visiting Lecture Interview: Amy Kulper, in Work in Progress, no. 16 (April 2015): On Architectural Knowledge and Expertise, Discussion at the 3 rd Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture, ptah.08: Building, Designing, Thinking, eds. Esa Laaksonen and Elina Penttinen (January 2009): 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 (January 2009): 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): The Quantified Self as the Site of Production: Buckminster Fuller s Dymaxion Chronofile and the Advent of Life-Logging, Production Sites Conference, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, July 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, WAAC)

6 6 Peer Reviewed Conference Paper cont: 13 (March 2011) 12 (March 2011) 11 (November 2010) 10 (December 2010) 09 (October 2009) 08 (November 2009) 07 (June 2009) 06 (April 2009) 05 (February 2009) 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 99 th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec Accepted based on full paper submission. 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 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 Air Apparent: A Manifesto on Spatial Indeterminacy Manifesto for Materials session at TAG2010: 32 nd Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archeology Group, Bristol University, Bristol, UK 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 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 The Double Life of Bios: Immanent Nature in its Autobiographical and Biological Guises Second Annual Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto, Japan Second Skin: Constructing the Egosphere in Experimental Architectural practices of the 1960s 35 th Association of Art Historians Conference, Manchester, UK 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

7 7 Peer Reviewed Conference Paper cont: 04 (October 2008) 03 (August 2008) 02 (April 2006) 01 (May 2006) Invited Lectures and Reviews: 14 (May 2015) 13 (March 2015) 12 (April 2015) 11 (October 2014) 10 (October 2013) 09 (April 2013) 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 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 Of Stylized Species and Specious Styles Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia 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 Invited to participate as one of four roving critics for the Final Degree Project Review at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Optical Correction: Photoshop and the Architectural Currency of Images. Invited to give a lecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in conjunction with a faculty talk in the JAE and a thesis review. [Photoshop]pery: Architecture s Digital Turn. Invited to give a lecture at Virginia Tech s Washington Alexandria Architecture Campus (WAAC) in a public lecture series entitled Architectural Serendipities and Sagacious Demonstrations. Additionally, I conducted a workshop for the doctoral students entitled, Nature s Laboratory. Architecture 1.0: The Invention of Photoshop and Architectural Design s Digital Turn. Invited to give the inaugural Eames Lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in conjunction with a graduate thesis seminar and a world history lecture. Tables + Tabulas: Architecture s Disciplinary Problems Lecture at Temple University Ropes and Rules: Architecture s Disciplinary Problems Lecture Delivered to the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Panel Discussion with Carlos Martinez of Gensler Architects, Chicago and Mark Pasnik of Over, Under Boston

8 8 Invited Lectures and Reviews, cont: 08 (November 2012) 07 (January 2012) 06 (March 2012) 05 (October 2011) 04 (March 2011) 03 (March 2011) 02 (January 2010) 01 (April 2007) Experimenting in Nature s Laboratory: Viollet-le-Duc on Mont Blanc Lecture delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) 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 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 Erased Imperatives: The Technical Imagination Lecture delivered at Louisiana State University 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 Flights of Imagination: Beyond Technique Lecture delivered as a part of the evening lecture series at Bowling Green State University Beyond Technique: Tools of the Imagination Constructing Imagination: A Symposium on the Matter of Architectural Scholarship, Washington Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University What? and How? 2007 Architectural Education Summit 07, Los Angeles, CA (April) SCI_Arc U of M Involvement: 09 (September 2013) 08 (September 2011) 07 (September 2012) Health Conference, Taubman College, The University of Michigan Moderator of Air Apparent: Towards Atmospheric Health Panel with David Gissen, Monika Bakke, Sandra Kaji-O Grady, and Sean Lally In the Alpine Laboratory Delivered the Inaugural Lecture for the Humanities Institute Brown Bag Lecture Series, The University of Michigan Canan Tolon: Time After Time Hosted panel discussion for the Humanities Institute about Canan Tolon s work.

9 9 U of M Involvement, cont: 06 (February 2012) 05 (October 2011) 04 (April 2011) 03 (March 2010) Teaching Commitments: Doctoral Advising: (October 2009) 01 (November 2006) Nature s Lapidarium: The Life of Ten Geological Specimens Lecture delivered at Taubman College s Geologic Turn Symposium 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 Future of History Conference, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan Moderator for Operative: Contemporaneity and Immediate Futures panel with Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ana Miljacki, Simon Sadler, Peter Zellner 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 Future of Design Conference, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan Moderator of round table discussion with Preston Scott Cohen, Timur Galen and Greg Lynn Double Agencies: The Tactics of Erasure and the Tyranny of the Detail Pause Centennial Conference, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Primary Advisor for Lori Smithey, Candidate Primary Advisor for Elizabeth Keslacy, Candidate Doctoral Committee Member for Joss Kiely, Candidate Doctoral Committee Member for Andrea Mihalache, Candidate (Virginia Tech) Master of Science in Design Research (MS_DR) Advising: Courses Taught: 2015: Joint Adviser with Jason Young Patrick Carmody, Ellen Donnelly, Melanie Kaba, Susan Massey, and Kaleena Quinn Ross Hoekstra, Sean Houghton, Sen Liu, Patrick Lynch, Colin Richardson, and Claire Sheridan (Arch 995) Dissertation Candidate Independent Study (Arch 995) Dissertation Candidate Independent Study (Arch 701) Theories in Digital Technology - Tools of the Trade

10 : 2013: Theory and Criticism Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary Architecture (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Discipline, Discipliniing, Disciplined: Architectural Habits of Mind and Modalities of Practice (Arch 839) UM Doctoral Research Practicum (Arch 995) UM Doctoral Dissertation Candidacy Independent Study Theory and Criticism Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary Architecture (Arch 603) CTRL + C: The Currency of the Copy in the Discipline of Architecture (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Discipline, Discipliniing, Disciplined: Architectural Habits of Mind and Modalities of Practice (Arch 701) UM Graduate seminar Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Master of Science in Digital Technology required theory course) (Arch 839) UM Doctoral Research Practicum (Arch 995) UM Doctoral Dissertation Candidacy Independent Study 2012: Theory and Criticism (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies as Spatial Paradigms: Architectural Variations on the Theme of Air (Arch 990) UM Doctoral Dissertation Pre Candidacy Independent Study (Arch 995) UM Doctoral Dissertation Candidacy Independent Study 2011: (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Discipline, Disciplining, Disciplined: Architectural Habits of Mind and Modalities of Practice (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies as Spatial Paradigms: Architectural Variations on the Theme of Air (Arch 839) UM Doctoral Research Practicum Independent Study (Arch 990) UM Doctoral Dissertation Pre Candidacy Independent Study (Arch 995) UM Doctoral Dissertation Candidacy Independent Study 2010: Theory and Criticism (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies as Spatial Paradigms: Architectural Variations on the Theme of Air

11 11 (Arch 662) UM Graduate Thesis Studio Heavy Weather (Arch 739) UM MS_DR Thesis 2009: Theory and Criticism (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Tools of the Trade: Instrumentality and Architecture, An Intellectual History (Arch 720) UM MS DR Seminar (Arch 721) UM MS DR Practicum Teaching Practicum (Arch 539) UM Graduate Independent Study in Architectural History 2008: Theory and Criticism (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 660) UM Required graduate seminar Thesis Seminar (Arch 720) UM MS_DR seminar Instant Architect: Disciplinarity and Its Discontents 2007: Theory and Criticism Silent Partners and Short Circuits: Theories in Contemporary Architecture (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Atmospheres, Environments and Ecologies: Contemporary Architecture and the Spatial Scientific Paradigm (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 660) UM Required graduate seminar Thesis Seminar (Arch 600) UM Graduate Independent Study in Architectural History 2006: Professional Service: (February) (August) Theory and Criticism (Arch 603) UM Graduate seminar Less is Morph: Biologism, Blobs, and Emergent Morphologies (Arch 660) UM Required graduate seminar Thesis Seminar peer review of scholarly articles for Architecture and Culture peer review of scholarly articles for Architecture and Culture ACSA Faculty Design Awards Committee invited by ACSA President Norman Millar Served on Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) search committee for a new Executive Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education peer review of scholarly articles for Architecture and Culture

12 Professional Service, cont: 2012 (July) 2010 (September) 2010 (September) Service University of Michigan: peer review of scholarly article for the Journal of Architecture peer review of papers for the Architecture s Responsive Extensions session of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture s 99 th Annual Meeting 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 99 th Annual Meeting Computational Cluster Hire Search Committee Fulbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals Fulbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals 12 Service Architecture Program, University of Michigan: Participated in Graduate Admissions Faculty Representative on Jury for the Willeke Portfolio Competition Participated on the Jury for the Booth Fellowship Competition Coordinator of Graduate Admissions Coordinator of Graduate Admissions Educational Planning Committee Participated in Doctoral Admissions Graduate Counseling for 2G and 3G advisees Planning Committee for the Power Conference Planning Committee for the Future of History Conference Planning Committee for the Future of Technology Conference Participated in Doctoral Admissions Thesis Task Force History/Theory Task Force Advisor for five M.Sc. students in Design Research Graduate Admissions Committee for 3G students Participated in Doctoral Admissions Graduate Counseling for 2G and 3G advisees Educational Planning Committee Search Committee for Design and Landscape position Doctoral Admissions Committee Coordinator for the HT area Graduate counseling for 2G and 3G advisees Graduate admissions committee for 2G students Doctoral admissions committee for the HT area Graduate counseling for 2G and 3G advisees Served on the Fulbright Scholarship Committee, reviewing student proposals at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels