LECTURERS

Caroline Bos

Art historian / Director UN Studio
Caroline Bos (Rotterdam, 1959) studied History of Art at Birkbeck College of the University of London, receiving her BA (Hons) 1991. In 1988 she founded Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau with the architect Ben van Berkel. This created the opportunity to extend their theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture.
Caroline Bos is as an analyst involved in all UN Studio projects. She observes, studies and describes the different programmatic issues and communicates these directly with the different parties involved. This working method has been introduced because the architectural assignment has changed from an introverted process into a multi-party, complex and differentiated collaboration process. In the early phases analytical, theoretical and observation skills are requested to get a complete understanding of the commission.
Caroline Bos taught among others as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Arnhem, The Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam and as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University.

Romy Golan

Ph.D., Associate Professor, City University of New York
Romy Golan is Associate Professor of 20^th-century art at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She received her Ph.D from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and has previously taught at Vassar College and Yale University. She has curated exhibitions and written catalogue essays for museums in the U.S., France, and Canada. She received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly publication by Junior Faculty Members of the Humanities at Yale for her book Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France between the Wars (Yale Univ. Press, 1995) and the Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts for co-authorship of The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris 1905-1945 at the Jewish Museum, New York, 1985. Her interest in the link between art and architecture is reflected in “The big picture,” in Tadao Ando Builds for Walter De Maria, Claude Monet, and James Turrell, The Chichu Art Museum, Japan, 2005; “Un ‘Discours aux architectes’?”, R.A: Revista de Architectura, Spring 2003; "From Monument to Muralnomad: the mural in modernist architecture" in The Built Surface: Architecture and Pictures from Antiquity to the Millenium, vol. 2, Karen Koehler ed., Ashgate Press, London, 2002; and her forthcoming Muralnomad: the mural effect in European art 1927-57.

Branden W. Joseph

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC Irvine
Branden W. Joseph received his Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 1999 and is currently Associate Professor of contemporary art at the University of California, Irvine. In the Spring of 2005, he was the Coca-Cola Foundation Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has published on John Cage, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris, Billy Klüver, Diane Arbus, Buckminster Fuller and others in magazines and journals such as Critical Inquiry, October, Artforum, Art Journal, and Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne. He is author of Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (MIT Press 2003), editor of Robert Rauschenberg (MIT Press 2002), and co-author of Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (New Art Trust/Steidl 2005). He is also a founding editor of Grey Room, a journal of architecture, art, media, and politics, published quarterly by MIT Press since 2000. Currently, he is completing a book on the artist, musician, and filmmaker Tony Conrad for Zone Books.

Joan Ockman

Professor, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Joan Ockman is the Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she has taught history, theory, and design of architecture since 1985. She has held visiting teaching appointments at the Graduate School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, the Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Yale University School of Architecture. In 2002–2003 she was a Center Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. She has edited a number of books, such as Architecture Culture 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology and Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention. In 2000 she co-organized the conference “Things in the Making: Contemporary Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and edited the volume The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking about Things in the Making, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Currently she is a contributing editor to Architecture magazine, a member of the editorial advisory board of Architect’s Newspaper, and a correspondent for the Italian magazine Casabella, for which she co-edited a special issue published in December 1999/January 2000 entitled “Architecture USA: Forms of Spectacle.” A graduate of Harvard University and the Cooper Union School of Architecture, she has worked in the architectural offices of Richard Meier and Peter Eisenman, with whom she collaborated on the Cannaregio project for the 1978 Venice Biennale.

Juhani Pallasmaa

Architect, Professor
Condensed CV / October, 2004

Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936), Architect, Professor, Helsinki. He has practised architecture since the early 1960s and established his office Pallasmaa Architects in 1983. In addition to architectural design, he has been active in urban, product and graphic design. He has taught and lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, and published books and numerous essays in twenty languages. Pallasmaa has held positions as eg. Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology (1991-97), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83),and Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. He has also held visiting professorships eg. at the Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2004), University of Virginia (1992) and Yale University (1993). His books include: Encounters: Architectural Essays, Helsinki 2005 (in press); Sensuous Minimalism, Beijing 2002; The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema, Helsinki 2001; Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Helsinki, 1998; The Eyes of the Skin, London 1996; and Animal Architecture, Helsinki 1995.

Felicity Scott

Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Felicity Scott is assistant professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine and a founding editor of the journal Grey Room, published quarterly by MIT Press. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2001, and also holds a MAUD from Harvard University, and B.Arch. from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her writing on modern and contemporary architecture has appeared in anthologies including Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, and Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture as well as in periodicals such as October, Artforum, Assemblage, Lotus International, Perspecta, and the Harvard Design Magazine. She is currently completing two book manuscripts: the first, entitled Architecture or Techno-Utopia, addresses experimental and radical practices from the postwar period which attempted to articulate ongoing ethico-political dimensions for architectural practice; the second, arising out of her doctoral dissertation, examines the work of émigré architect Bernard Rudofsky, reading his contributions to the end-games of modernism as symptomatic responses to the historical transformations brought about by the global expansion of capitalism and advances in communication technologies.