Christina E. Crawford Curriculum Vitae Graduate School of Design Advanced Studies Programs 40 Kirkland Street, 1A Cambridge, MA 02138 141 Eutaw Street Boston, MA 02128 617.515.8946 ccrawford@fas.harvard.edu scholar.harvard.edu/ccrawford EDUCATION 2016 PhD, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Dissertation: Producing Socialist Settlement: Soviet Urban Praxis Committee: Eve Blau, Jean-Louis Cohen, Maria Gough 2013 AM, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning 2003 MArch, Graduate School of Design with Distinction 1997 National Foreign Service Training Institute, Washington, D.C. 1995 BA, Yale University Architecture and Russian & East European Studies cum laude, Distinction both majors 1994 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles 2016 Socialist Urbanization through American Standardization. Journal of Urban History, Second World Urbanity special issue (forthcoming). Book Chapters 2011 Plot Logic: Character-Building through Creative Parcelisation, with Tim Love. In Urban Design and the Real Estate Development Process, Steve Tiesdell and David Adams, Eds., Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Book / Exhibition Reviews 2015 The Mound of Vendôme at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Future Anterior, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2015. 2010 Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, MOMA New York. Architecture Boston, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2010. Manuscripts in Submission 2015 The Battle to Envision the Socialist City in Man with a Movie Camera. Grey Room.
Christina E. Crawford_CV 2 Manuscripts in Preparation 2016 Oil City of Socialist Man (1921-1991). In Baku: Oil and Urbanism, Eve Blau with Christina Crawford and Ivan Rupnik, Lars Müller Publishers. Web-Based Publications 2015 Soviet Planning Praxis: From Tractors to Territory. Centerpiece, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2015. 2015 GenPlan 101: How to read a socialist general plan drawing. Second World Urbanity website. 2014 The Innovative Potential of Scarcity in SA s Comradely Competition for Communal Housing, 1927. ArchiDOCT, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2014. Other Publications 2015 From the Old Family to the New. Harvard Design Magazine, 41: Family Matters. 2003 Urban Space or State Monument? The Maydan in Kiev. Archis, Vol. 2, 2003. 2003 Kyiv s Underground Malls. ACC (Art, City, Construction), Ukraine, Vol. 1, 2003. 2002 A Declaration of Independence. Metropolis, December, 2002. Exhibitions 2002 Kyiv Renaissance. Architectural photographs, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY. GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Sidney R. Knafel Dissertation Completion Fellowship Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2014 Merit/Term Time Fellowship Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2014 Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2014 TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Canadian Centre for Architecture 2014 Priscilla McMillan Research Travel Grant Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2013 + 12 Maurice Lazarus Research Travel Award Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2013 John Coolidge Research Fellowship Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter 2013 + 12 Peter + Mary Novak Ukrainian Fellowship Ukrainian Research Institute, 2011 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter 2001 Fulbright Study/Research Fellowship, Ukraine U.S. Departments of State and Education
Christina E. Crawford_CV 3 2001 Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship 1997 Fascell Fellowship, Russia U.S. Department of State AWARDS & HONORS 2015 Graduate Student Associate Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2015 Graduate Student Affiliate Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2015 Graduate Student Affiliate Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 2003 John E. Thayer Scholarship 2001 Cathy Simon Scholarship Harvard Graduate School of Design 2001 Arthur Lehman Scholarship 2000 AIA/AAF Certificate of Merit American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation 1995 Sudler Prize in the Creative and Performing Arts Yale University 1995 Scott Prize for Russian Excellence Yale University INVITED TALKS 2014 The long-term effects of settlement isolationism: Armenikend/Baku, KhTZ/Kharkiv, Sotsgorod/Magnitogorsk Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia 2014 Socialism through isolation: one Soviet proposition Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada 2013 Hybrid Socialist City: 1927 General Plan for Baku, AzSSR Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Boston, MA 2013 The Productivist Landscape Analysis of Modern Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008 Paul Rudolph s Regionalist Tendencies: Situating the Yanofsky House, 1956 Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Boston, MA 2007 Kharkiv, Ukraine: Constructivist Capital 1922-1934 Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, Boston, MA
Christina E. Crawford_CV 4 CONFERENCE ACTIVITY / PARTICITATION Conferences / Symposia Organized 2014 Annual Student Symposium Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter Panels Organized 2014 Americanism as urban generator in Inter- and Postwar Europe Urban History Association Seventh Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA Papers Presented 2015 The battle to envision the socialist city in Man with a Movie Camera Second World Urbanity Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia 2014 Socialist Urbanization through American Standardization Urban History Association Seventh Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2014 New Kharkiv: An isolated history of a model socialist settlement American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY 2013 Hybrid Socialist City: 1927 General Plan for Baku, AzSSR Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Conference, Boston, MA 2013 The Operativity of Overlap: Urban infrastructure, artistry and theatricality in the stellen of Otto Wagner Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Fresno, CA 2013 The Innovative Potential of Scarcity in SA s Comradely Competition for Communal Housing, 1927 Scarcity in the Built Environment Conference, London, England 2012 The Bauhaus Comes to Kharkiv: Gropius s Total Theater in practice in the Ukrainian State Theater Competition Ukrainian Avant-Garde International Conference, Kharkiv, Ukraine Panel Chair 2013 Socialist Cities through Revolutionary Lenses: Paradzhanov's 'Tbilisi', Polska Kronika Filmowa's 'Warsaw', and Khutsiev's 'Moscow' Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Conference, Boston, MA CAMPUS / DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2015 Moscow Cities by Design course, Harvard Graduate School of Design 2015 Socialist Urbanization through American Standardization Graduate-Student Papers on Cultural Politics, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2014 Stone shifting, constellating and other tactics Architecture s Archive Symposium, Cambridge Talks VII Conference, Harvard GSD 2013 + 12 The Socialist City: Theory and Praxis Urban Form course, Harvard Graduate School of Design 2013 Urban Models and their Architectural Prototypes Ecologics studio course, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Christina E. Crawford_CV 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Modernity and Crisis, lecture course (Fall 2013) Chicago s Grid: In Search of New Paradigms, urban design studio [Design Critic] (Spring 2013) Grids, Score for Designing the City, research course (Spring 2013) Urban Form: History + Theory, lecture course (Spring 2013) Buildings, Texts and Contexts III, lecture course (Fall 2012) Kyiv, Ukraine: The New Dnipro Edge, urban design studio [Design Critic] (Spring 2004) Buildings, Texts and Contexts I, lecture course (Fall 2000) Career Discovery, architecture studio [Design Critic] (Summer 2001) Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Research Collaborator, Moscow Portal (2014 16) Reconceptualizing the Urban: Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Environments, Societies, and Cultures, Mellon Foundation Grant Teaching Fellow (2013 14) Northeastern University School of Architecture, Boston, MA Architectural Strategies and Tactics, undergraduate seminar [Lecturer] (2009 10) Architectural Theory, graduate seminar [Lecturer] (2008 10) 20th Century Architecture + Urbanism, undergraduate seminar [Lecturer] (2003 06) Design 4: Urban housing, architecture studio [Design Critic] (Spring 2005) REVIEWS Journal Peer-reviewer Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen ZARCH, Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism Universidad de Zaragoza Application Reviewer Fulbright Program in Ukraine Ukrainian Fulbright applications in Architecture and Urbanism Invited Design Juror Graduate School of Design University of Toronto Yale University School of Architecture Northeastern University Wesleyan College Roger Williams University
Christina E. Crawford_CV 6 NONACADEMIC WORK 2013 10 Architect + Urban Designer, Registered Architect in Massachusetts Utile, Inc., Architecture + Planning, Boston, MA 2000 Architectural Designer Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP, San Francisco, CA 1999 Architectural Designer Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc., Boston, MA 1997 98 Vice Consul, Consular Department U.S. Department of State, American Consulate, St. Petersburg, Russia 1995 97 Research Associate Cityscape Institute, New York, NY RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS History + theory of modern architecture History + theory of modern urban design Architecture + the city Socialist + post-socialist architecture and planning Soviet built + visual culture Industrial sites + shrinking cities LANGUAGES English Russian French Ukrainian native fluent proficient reading proficient reading PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & POSITIONS 2006 Member, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter Past positions: Vice President, Director, Fellowship Chair 2007 Registered Architect, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards States of current registration: Massachusetts 2007 Member, American Institute of Architects 2007 Member, Boston Society of Architects Past positions: Harleston Parker Medal Jury Chair, Membership Enrichment Committee Chair, Rotch Traveling Scholarship Jury 2011 Member, Society of Architectural Historians 2013 Member, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) 2013 Member, Urban History Association