The Ph.D. Students at the Princeton University School of Architecture are pleased to announce the 2005/2006 School of Architecture Ph.D. Forum. This year's Ph.D. Forum consists of a series of papers - either recently completed or in progress - from younger scholars who are redefining the bounds of research in architecture. All talks begin at 5 PM in room N-106 in the School of Architecture. Talks last approximately 45 minutes, with time for discussion and snacks. Some papers will be pre-circulated; if you wish to receive a copy or further information please email mtenhoor (at) princeton.edu.
Leonardo Diaz is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.
Keith Eggener is Assistant Professor of American Art and Architecture at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Valeria Koukoutsi-Mazarakis is an independent scholar in Theory and History of Architecture and has her own architectural practice in Princeton, NJ. She has a professional degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1986) and a Master of Science (1989) and Ph.D. degree in Theory and History of Architecture from M.I.T.(2001) where she also taught architectural design between 2001 and 2003. Her theoretical work encompasses 20th century architecture with focus on postwar architectural practices of the 1960s. She has practiced architecture in a variety of contexts, with projects in the US, Greece, Spain, China and India. Currently she is revising her dissertation manuscript "José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985" for publication and collaborating as senior architect with Rafael Moneo on his Science Building (to be completed in 2007) at Harvard University.
Stephen Phillips is principal architect in the California based firm, Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS). He is a PhD Candidate at Princeton University School of Architecture and Assistant Professor of Design at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. His dissertation, "Elastic Architecture" focuses on the perceptions of time-motion influencing contemporary computer animation generated design through a focused analysis of work by Frederick Kiesler, among others.
Dana Simmons is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a degree in Architecture and Visual Arts, then earned an M.A. in Art History and a PhD in History at the University of Chicago. Her PhD thesis won recognition as the best dissertation in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago in 2004. She is currently revising the manuscript for publication. "Minimal Frenchman: Science and Standards of Living, 1840-1960" traces the rise of a modern project to prescribe the parameters of life. By the twentieth century, a wide field of measurement and intervention focused on the consuming body. The book argues that measures of bodily need made consumption into a form of social necessity.
Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the "Architecture-Culture-Société" laboratory of the Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris. His most recent book, Les Architectes et Mai 68 examines the role that architects played in the events of May 1968 in Paris.
Arindam Dutta is the Clarence H. Blackall Associate Professor of Architectural History at MIT. Dutta's current work centers on two different areas. The first project involves a major examination of the political challenges faced by artists in India with the dual rise of Hindu religious fundamentalism and the unraveling of state controls over fiscal policy effected as a result of the new financial consensus of the 1990s, termed "globalization". His second project concentrates on the intimate relationship between aesthetic and political-economic conceptions of natural and social life, focusing on post-Enlightenment efforts - in Europe, America and their colonies - to harness land, water, the weather, the human body and mind towards economic ends.
Pamela M. Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Her research focuses upon the art, theory and criticism of late modernism with a historical focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Lee is the author of Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004).