David L. Salomon, PhD Assistant Professor Coordinator, Architectural Studies Ithaca College 953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-229-7996 e-mail: dsalomon@ithaca.edu Background Education PhD Architecture, December, 2004; University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Critical Studies in Architecture Culture Program Master of Architecture, May, 1994; University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI School of Architecture and Urban Planning Bachelor of Science Finance, May, 1989; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Teaching Experience Ithaca College, Art History and Architectural Studies, Ithaca, NY: 2013-present University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture, Philadelphia, PA; 2010/ 2013-present University at Buffalo, Department of Architecture, Buffalo, NY, 2012-2013 Cornell University, Department of Architecture, Ithaca, NY; 2004-2012 Syracuse University, School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY; 2009 2010 Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY; 2001-2001 UCLA Extension, Interior Design Program, Los Angeles, CA; 2000 Woodbury University, School of Architecture, Burbank, CA; 1998 Guest Critic Harvard University, Sothern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Michigan, University at Buffalo, University of Nebraska Selected Professional Experience Robert Linn Architect, Raritan, NJ, Project and Construction Manager Mar., 2001 Oct., 2003 A/R Architects, New York, NY, Project Manager/Project Architect July, 1996 - July, 1997 M. Castedo Architect, P.C., New York, NY, Project Manager September, 1994 - June 1996 Courses Taught History Architecture Across Cultures, Ithaca College, 2014-present Elements of Architecture, Ithaca College, 2013-present Introduction to the History of Architecture I &II, University at Buffalo, 2012-2013 History and Theory of Architecture I, University of Pennsylvania, 2010 Housing Modernity, Syracuse University, 2010 Case Studies in Modern Suburbia, Cornell University, 2007 Modern Architecture, Pratt Institute, 2001
Theory Design The Spector of Symmetry, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aries, November, 2015 Architecture of Patterns, Cornell, 2008, 2011; Penn Design, 2010, 2013; Ithaca College, 2015-present Architectural Theories and Analysis I &II, Cornell University, 2004-2012 Research Methods, Cornell University, 2010; University at Buffalo, 2012 Suburban Aesthetics, Cornell University, 2009 Architecture + Capitalism, Cornell University, 2007 Contemporary Practices, Cornell University, 200 Architecture Studio I&II, Ithaca College, 2013-2014 Small Builds, Ithaca College, 2013 Kowloon Compositions, Cornell University, 2011 Polycultural Developments, Syracuse University, 2009 Variety Shows, Syracuse University, 2008 Superbia, Cornell University, 2008 Pro-Thesis Seminar, Cornell University; 2006-2012 Thesis Advisor, Undergraduate and Graduate, Cornell & Syracuse Universities, 2005-2012 Publications & Presentations Books & Dissertation The Spector of Symmetry (Buenos Aires: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, forthcoming) The Architecture of Patterns, co-authored with Paul Andersen; introduction by Sandford Kwinter; graphic design by David Carson (New York: Norton, 2010) One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism, PhD Dissertation, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Critical Studies in Architecture Culture Program (2004) Book Chapters Journal Articles Risky Businesses, Suprarural Architecture: Atlas of Rural Protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas (New York: Actar, 2016) Some Things Don t Go Away, The Generic Sublime, (New York: Actar, forthcoming) Discrepant Practices, Handbook of Architectural Theory (London: Sage, 2012) Practice, Crib Sheets (New York: Monacelli Press, 2005) Towards a History of the American Driveway, Buildings and Landscapes (Forthcoming, 2017) Towards a New Infrastructure: Aesthetic Thinking, Synthetic Sensibilities, Journal of Landscape Architecture (May, 2016) Fluorescent Architecture, or Dan Flavin at the Supermarket, The Journal of Architecture 19 (No. 6, December, 2014). The Highway Not Taken: Tony Smith and the Suburban Sublime, Places, http://places.designobserver.com/feature/tony-smith-new-jersey-turnpike/38084/; originally posted on September 19, 2013. Experimental Cultures: On the End of the Design Thesis and the Rise of the Research Studio, Journal of Architectural Education 65 (November, 2011) Taste is Critical, Cornell Journal of Architecture 8 (January, 2011) Promiscuous Patterns, Synthetic Architecture w/ Paul Andersen, Harvard Design Magazine 31 (Winter 2010) Strength in Numbers, Architectural Design 76 (Sept.-Oct. 2006) Working Geometry, Making Patterns, Review 4 (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien, 2006) Letting Go, Log #5 (Summer 2005). 2
Divided Responsibilities, Grey Room #7 (Summer 2002) No Place Like Foreignness, Faultlines #4 (Fall 1998) Book Reviews Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and its Site [by} Caroline O Donnell, Architectural Theory Review 20, no. 3 (June 2016): 380-382). Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect [by] Mary Anne Hunting." Journal Of The Society Of Architectural Historians 73, no. 4 (December 2014): 605-607. The Alphabet and the Algorithm [by] Mario Carpo, Journal of Architectural Education 65, no. 1 (October 2011): 98-100. Conference Papers Foreign Objects, ACSA International Meeting, Santiago, Chile, July 2016 Going Big: Michael Heizer, Bulldozers and Suburbia, ACSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 2016 Composition Matters, ACSA Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2015 Aesthetic Technologies, ACSA Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2015 Fluorescent Architecture, ACSA Annual Meeting, Miami, April 2014 Tony Smith, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Suburban Sublime, Society for American and City Regional Planning History Annual Conference, Toronto, October, 2013 Suburban Sensibilities, ACSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2013 Experimental Cultures: On the End of the Design Thesis and the Rise of the Research Studio, ACSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2012 A Brief History of the American Driveway, Society for American City and Regional Planning History Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 2011 Modernist Parking Space, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April, 2011 Taste is Critical, ACSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2010. From Siedlung to Suburbia: The Cooperative Projects of Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative, Society for American City and Regional Planning History Annual Conference, Oakland, CA, October, 2009 Aesthetics of Cybernetics: Gregory Bateson s Art, Disciplinarity, Tel Aviv University, May, 2009. The Aesthetics of Collaboration, ACSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, April 2009. Developing Stewardship, co-author w/ Guilio Zavolta, ACSA Southeast Conference, Washington D.C., October 2007 From Primitives to Patterns, co-author w/ Paul Andersen, ACSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007 Follow the Money: Manfredo Tafuri and the (E)valuation of the American Skyscraper, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA April, 2006 Mixed Media: Architecture as Artistic Foil and Marketing Tool, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April, 2005 Sign of the Times: Shifting Technological Gears at the World Trade Center, The Architecture of Philosophy/The Philosophy of Architecture, Congress CATH 2004, Bradford, UK, July, 2004 Holding Modernism Up, or, How Yama Learned to Love the Bearing Wall, Post War Operations, UCLA, Department of Architecture & Urban Design, May 2002 One Thing or Another: Architectural Authorship at the World Trade Center, Hypothesis 4: Wanted, Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture, April 2001 Architectural Divisions: Eero Saarinen at the General Motors Technical Center, ACSA East-Central Regional Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2000 Invited Public Lectures The Spector of Symmetry, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aries, November, 2015 The Ends of the Research Studio, Pratt Institute, August, 2014 The Ends of Thesis, University of Nevada Las Vegas, February 2013 The Architecture of Patterns, (w/ David Carson), Penn Design, November 2010 3
The Architecture of Patterns, Cornell School of Architecture, November 2010 Invited Symposia & Colloquia Starting and Stopping Symmetry, Thumbnail, Cornell, 20l5 64mm: Flavin, McLuhan and Supermarkets, Thumbnail, Cornell, 2013 The Synthetic Intelligence of Patterns, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Jan. 2009 Cosmopolitan Practices, Under Construction, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, November 2007 Modernist Cooperative Communities, Intentional Communities, Social Experiments; Telluride House, Cornell University, April 2007 Protean Patterns, Thinking the Surface, Institute for the Humanities, Cornell University, October 2006 Conference & Symposia Moderator Simulating Natures, Landscape Architecture, Penn Design, March 2015 The Aesthetic Infrastructure of Suburbia, Society for American and City Regional Planning History Annual Conference, Toronto, October, 2013 The Car and the City, Society for American City and Regional Planning History Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 2011 Marketing Modernism, Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2007 Exhibition Texts Graphic Matter, The Terrain of Water, Penn Design, April 2011 Aesthetic Intelligence, The Synthetic Intelligence of Patterns, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1/09-2/09 Exhibition Curator The Architecture of Patterns, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, April 2011 The Synthetic Intelligence of Patterns, assisted Paul Andersen, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1/09-2/09 Performing Landscapes: Lloyd Wright and Los Angeles, Gallery 1220, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, March, 2000 May, 2000 Major Awards Graham Foundation, Publication Grant for Architecture of Patterns, 2008 Graham Foundation, Carter Manny Award, 2003 Trustees Merit Citation UCLA Graduate Division, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2003-2004 UCLA Department of Architecture, Harvey Perloff Fellowship, 1998 Administrative Experience Academic Service Coordinator, Architectural Studies Program, Ithaca College, 2015-present Curriculum Committee, Art History Department, Ithaca College, 2016-present Architectural Studies Committee, Ithaca College, 2013-present By-Laws Committee, Art History Department, Ithaca College, 2015 Designer, Architectural Studies Brochure, Ithaca College, 2015 ICNYC taskforce, School of Humanities and Sciences, Ithaca College, 2014-2015 Speakers Committee, Art History Department, Ithaca College, 2013-2014 M Arch II, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2011 M Arch I, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2007-2008 MA & PhD Committee, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2005-2007 Curriculum Committee, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2006-2007 4
Curriculum Committee, Department of Architecture, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1992-1993 Related Academic Experience Getty Research Institute and Trust, Los Angeles, CA Consultant, April, 1998 - December, 2000 Coordinated the photographic documentation of the construction of Frank O. Gehry s Disney Concert Hall. UCLA, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Editorial Assistant, Faultlines April 1998 January 1999 UCLA, Department of Architecture and Urban Design Assistant to the Chair, October, 1998 June, 1999 5