Curriculum Vitae Andrew M. Shanken Associate Professor Department of Architecture University of California, Berkeley 232 Wurster Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 ashanken@berkeley.edu 510/642-1452 (o) 510/527-5991 (h) 510/666-7092 (cell) Education Haverford College (1986-1990), B.A. in the Growth and Structure of Cities and History Princeton University (1993-1995) M.A. in Art History Princeton University (1995-1999) Ph.D. in Art History 2004-Present Teaching and Work Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley 2000-2004 Oberlin College, Assistant Professor, Department of Art 1999-2000 Bryn Mawr College, Lecturer, Growth and Structure of Cities, Princeton University, Instructor, Writing Program University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Department of Art History 1996-1998 Princeton University, Assistant Master, Butler College 1991-92 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Summerbridge Louisville, a nonprofit summer school for at risk middle school students. Kentucky Country Day School, Louisville, 6 th and 7 th grade history Books 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront. University of Minnesota Press, 2009. The Architecture of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939. Work in progress. Memorials No More: Towards a Cultural Geography of Memorials. Work in progress. Chapters in Books Towards a Cultural Geography of Memorials, forthcoming in the Festschrift to Eric Fernie, Ed., Christine Stevenson (Boydell and Brewer, 2010).
Memory and Its Discontents: On the Fringes of the Memory Industry, in Marc Treib, Ed., Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape (Routledge, 2009). The Guilt Environment, City of Refuge: A 9/11 Memorial (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009). This is part of a volume of critical essays about an alternative memorial to the events of September 11 th by the internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Articles Preservation and Creation: Alfonso Rubbiani and Bologna, Future Anterior 7, 1 (Summer 2010): 61-81. Le case dei borghesi, 1879, Translation, Future Anterior 7, 1 (Summer 2010): 82-95. Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, 3 (September, 2010): 406-31. Making the Point, in Building Blocks: Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, California (Lennar Urban, 2010): 49-55. The Sublime Jackass: Transgression and Play in the Inner Suburbs, Places 19, 3 (Fall, 2007) 50-55. Confederates on the Fairway: A Civil War Themed Subdivision in Rural Ohio, Landscape (September 2007) Better Living: Towards a Cultural History of a Business Slogan. Enterprise and Society (Sept., 2006) 485-519. The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930 s and 1940 s Art Bulletin 88 (June, 2006) 310-327. Memento More: Putting the New Wave of Memorials into Context, Frameworks (Fall, 2005), the journal of the College of Environmental Design. Between Brotherhood and Bureaucracy: Joseph Hudnut, Louis I. Kahn and the American Society of Planners and Architects. Planning Perspectives 20, 2 (April, 2005): 147-175. From the Gospel of Efficiency to Modernism: A History of Sweet s Catalog, 1906-1947, Design Issues 21, 2 (Spring, 2005): 28-47. Research on Memorials and Monuments, Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 84 (2004) 163-172.
Planning Memory: The Rise of Living Memorials in the United States during World War II, Art Bulletin 84 (March 2002): 130-147. Awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association, 2003. Critical Essay, Case Study Cleveland (in the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, May, 2002): unpaginated Corporate Competitions and Bureaucracy, 1934-1945, Architectural Research Quarterly 3, 1 (1999): 43-54. Encyclopedia Entries Glass, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture Memorials, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture Sigfried Giedion, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture Reviews Review, Peter Galison and Emily Thompson, eds., The Architecture of Science, for CAA Reviews Online (March, 2000) Review, Gwendolyn Wright, USA: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion Press/University of Chicago Series, 2008) Fellowships, Grants, Awards 2007 President s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Sabbatical support Humanities Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Sabbatical support 2006 Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Summer Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley 2004-05 Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley Mellon Library/Faculty Fellows for Undergraduate Research, U.C. Berkeley 2003 Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awarded 2003. The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Changed to a Visitorship on my request Canadian Centre for Architecture, Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Changed to an affiliation on my request. Awarded 2003. 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant-in-Aid, Oberlin College, to support research and writing 1998-1999 Chester Dale Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery
1997 American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Grant Smithsonian Institution, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 1995 Charles Peterson Fellowship, Philadelphia Athenaeum 1994 D.A.A.D. German Exchange, 1993 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993-94. 1991 Phi Beta Kappa, 1991. Competitions Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition. Consultant with Nicholas de Monchaux and Elijah Huge. Just Jerusalem, for the design of Jerusalem in 2050. Co-designer with Hillary Mushkin National Aids Memorial Competition, 2005 Finalist. Historical consultant for Ravee Choksombatchai. Tsunami Memorial Competition, 2006, Finalist. Historical consultant consultant for Ravee Choksombatchai. Exhibitions 2008 Fatal Design, Co-Curator with Waverly Lowell, for the Environmental Design Archives, Berkeley. Professional Talks and Lectures 2010 Spaces of History Symposium, Berkeley, April 30, Respondant American Architecture and Abstraction at Mid-Century, Stanford University, invited lecture, Department of Art and Art History, May 21 On the Fringes of the Memory Industry, Townsend Center Working Group in Contemporary Art, Berkeley, April 7 Recent Research, Invited talk to the Arts Research Council, U.C. Berkeley, March 2
2009 Meet Me at the Plague Column: Memorials and Urbanism in Postwar Europe, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Oakland, October 2009 Otto Neurath and American Architecture, delivered at Otto Neurath, Social Democracy, and the New Deal, June 23, 2009, Center for Architecture, New York City. 194X, Department of Architecture Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley. Feb. 11, 2009 194X. Reading from my book for the Architectural Resources Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley, March 18, 2009. Reading from 194X at Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA Reading from 194X at Builders Booksource, Berkeley, CA 2008 Short-Term Memorials, at the opening of Fatal Design, an exhibition I co-curated for the Environmental Design Archives, Berkeley. Around the World in a War: Walter Gropius, London, and the American City, at the Fourth Biannual International Consortium Conference, Berkeley, June 20, 2008. Louis Kahn s Visions of the Future during World War II. Invited lecture at the Facoltà di Architettura Aldo Rossi, Cesena, Italy, May 15, 2008. Louis Kahn e la visione del futuro. Invited Lecture by Architettura Modernita e Scienze, a group of architects and social scientists, April 5, 2008, Genoa Memory after the Modern. Invited lecture at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Bologna, in the lecture series Città immaginata e città reale: Percorsi nella memoriae nelle pratiche urbane, April 2, 2008. The Sublime Jackass. Invited lecture at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, University of Bologna, March 31, 2008. Louis I. Kahn, in the Realm of Planning. Invited lecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ghent, March 3, 2008. The Memory Industry and Its Discontents Invited lecture for (CLUE) Research Institute for the Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment, Free University, Amsterdam, March 6, 2008.
2007 Representing Cities at Mid-Century, Delivered at Pasts, Presents, Futures: 125 Years of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, December 8, 2007. I was chosen as one of seven alumni speakers to represent the field. Memorials No More: Destruction, Desecration, Iconoclasm, Neglect, Session Chair at the Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, April 2007. The Future of Memory, at the Spatial Recall: The Place of Memory in Architecture and Landscape, Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, March 2007. The Memory Industry, Keynote speech at the Art History Graduate Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona, February 2007. Peter Eisenman Slept Here: The Memory Industry and Its Discontents, Invited lecture at the Collins/Kauffman lecture series, Columbia University, February 13, 2007. 2006 Abstraction and Planning: The Visuality of Urban Planning at Mid-Century in the United States, at Beyond Mimesis: Representation in Art and Science, London, June, 2006. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Simulacrum: A Civil-War Themed Subdivision in Rural Ohio, at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, April, 2006, Savannah. 2005 Working Class Utopia: Community Centers, Neighborhood Units, and American Architecture during World War II, January 6-8, American Historical Association Annual Conference, January 2005. The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930 s and 1940 s. ARC Lecture Series, Department of Architecture, U.C. Berkeley The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930 s and 1940 s. Twice Told Tales, American Studies Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley 2004 The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930 s and 1940 s. College Art Association, Seattle. 2003 Homing Devices: Scrapbooks and House Planning in the United States, 1920-1950, University of California, Berkeley, April, 2003
2002 Architecture and War, invited lecture at Bowling Green University, December, 2002 Respondent, Case Study Cleveland, a symposium for the exhibition, May, 2002 194X, for a session on The Unbuilt, Society of Architectural Historians Conference, April, 2002 Architectural Periodicals in Practice and as History, Co-Chair, College Art Association, Philadelphia, February, 2002 2001 A Neglected Episode in the History of the U.S. Architectural Press during World War II, Society of Architectural Historians Conference, April, 2001 Look Out Oberlin! The Multi-Headed Hydra Builds Again, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, March 2, 2001 2000 The Threat of Modern Architecture, 1945-1966, New Modernisms Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 12, 2000 1999 Undeniable Maleness: The Architect as Planner in 194X. Delivered at the Race, Class and Gender in Planning History Conference, Washington, November 18, 1999 The Mature Economy and American Architecture, 1942-194X. Delivered at the Reading the Future Conference, New York University, November 5, 1999 1998 Addison Hutton at Bryn Mawr College. Delivered at A Hutton Roundtable: Observations on the Architecture of Addison Hutton, Historic Preservation Lecture Series, Lower Merion Conservancy, Dec. 1, 1998 Home Planning Scrapbooks during World War II. Delivered at the National Museum of American History Colloquium, June, 1998 Guest Critic, Lehigh University, Architectural Studio, May, 1998 The Planning of Memory. Delivered at the annual conference of the American Culture Association, April, 1998 Teaching Discussion Sections of Introductory Surveys. Panelist on roundtable discussion at Society of Architectural Historians Conference, April, 1998
The Corporate Competition and Bureaucracy, 1934-1945. Delivered at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, April, 1998 1997 Better Living: The History of a Slogan. Delivered to the Department of History, University of Delaware, Oct., 1997 Better Living: Architecture, Advertising, and Anticipation, 1934-1945. Delivered at the Buell Center Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, May, 1997 The Spreading Man-Reef : The American Reception of the 1943 County of London Plan. Delivered at the Frick Symposium, April, 1997 Wartime Advertising and Planning Culture. Delivered at the Testing Ground Symposium, Harvard University, Feb., 1997 1996 Abstraction and Planning. Delivered at the Tales of the City Conference, Princeton University, Sept., 1996