Scholarly Articles 

Forthcoming

Published

• 'Reflections from Theodor Adorno’s unbuilt House in Pacific Palisades', Athenaeum Review, issue 11 (Spring 2025): 30–44. 

• 'Janus in der Tannenbergallee: vom Haus Poelzig zum Haus Harlan', in Haus Marlene Poelzig, Berlin. Abriss und Aufbruch, ed. by Initiative Haus Marlene Poelzig, Hannah Dziobek, Hannah Klein (Berlin: Urbanophil, 2025), pp. 183–98. 

• 'Frameless Art, Boundless Modernism: A Chapter from the History of the Clip Fame', The Frame Blog, January 18, 2025.

• 'Salzburg in Los Angeles—Max Reinhardt and Paul László’s vision of a Festpielstadt in the Hollywood Hills', in Wie sich Salzburg inszeniert: vom Werden einer Musikstadt, ed. by Sigrid Brandt und Thomas Wozonig (Vienna: Hollitzer, 2023), pp. 242-256.

• 'Photo Books and the Architectural Imagination of Southern California', in The Photobook World: Artists' Books and Forgotten Social Objects, ed. by Paul Edwards (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023), pp. 116-129.

• 'Berlin in London, Hiddensee in Walberswick: On Ernst L. Freud's Exile Architecture in England', in Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics and Culture Betwen Britain and Germany, 1919-1955, ed. by Lucy Wasensteiner (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 195-214.

• Volker M. Welter and Jocelyn Gibbs, 'Victor Cusack (1915-2020)', Newsletter Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter, Spring 2021, 5.

• 'Lutah Maria Riggs: A Portrait of a Modern Domestic Architect', The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, ed. by Anna Sokolina (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 129-141.

• 'Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern Architecture and the Great War', in Revival after the Great War: Repair, Rebuild, Remember, ed. by Luc Verpoest, et.al. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020), pp. 106-121.

• 'Ernst L. Freud: Domestic Architect: Zuhause in Berlin, At Home in London', in Freud and the Émigré—Austrian Émigrés and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930-1970s, ed. by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 61-76.

• Introduction to  the translation of Arnold Höllriegel  'Journey Through the Great Picture Book ' and 'The American Normal Town', Art in Translation, 11:3 (published April 2020), 382-383.

• 'Seelenspiegel oder Weltenspiegel', in Unruhe und Architektur in Werken der Sammlung Prinzhorn (Heidelberg: Verlag Das Wunderhorn, 2020), pp. 6-7. 

• 'An Architect at War: Adrian Berrington and the Environment of the Modern Battlefield of the First World War', RIHA Journal 0236, 30 January 2020.

•  'Kaufmann House: Desert House' [Palm Springs, California], SAH Archipedia, ed. by Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—. 

• 'Restoration within Reach: The Miles C. Bates House, Palm Desert, California', Western Humanities Review, Fall 2018, 72:3, 99-122.

• 'Commentary on “Thinking organic, acting civic: The paradox of planning for cities in evolution” by Michael Batty and Stephen Marshall, and “Jaqueline Tyrwhitt translates Patrick Geddes for post world war two planning” by Ellen Shoshkes', Landscape and Urban Planning, 166 (2017), pp. 25-26.  

• 'One World', Companion to Environmental Studies, ed. by Noel Castree et. al (Routledge London and New York, 2018), pp. 72-75. 

• 'Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s ‘Wolf’s Lair’ in the Hollywood Hills', SAH/SCC, Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter News, November/December 2017, pp. 3-4  

• 'Schloss Murnau, Hollywoodland, CA 90068', Cabinet Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture, 2017: 63, pp. 41-49. 

• 'Portraits Matter', Berfrois, August 26, 2016.

• 'Noah in the Desert', Berfrois, January 15, 2016.

• 'From the Landscape of War to the Open Order of the Kaufmann House: Richard Neutra and the Experience of the Great War', The good Gardener? Nature, Humanity, and the Garden, edited by Annette Giesecke and Naomi Jacobs (London: Black Dog Publishing, London, 2014), pp. 216-233.

• 'At Home with E. Stewart Williams: Modern Domestic Desert Architecture in the Genteel Tradition', The Architecture of E. Stewart Williams (Palm Springs: Palm Springs Museum of Modern Art, 2014). pp. 54-84.

• 'The Valley Region—From Figure of Thought to Figure on the Ground', New Geographies Journal 06: Grounding Metabolism, edited for Harvard University Graduate School of Design by Nikos Katsikis & Daniel Ibanez (Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. 78-87.

• 'A Feeling of Oneness With the World: On the House of Dr. Franz Alexander', Berfrois, December 16, 2013.

• 'Therapeutic Frontiers: The Tremaine Houses in Santa Barbara', Manifest no 1—Looking Inward, Fall 2013, pp. 178-187.

• 'Biopolis. Patrick Geddes und die Idee der Region als Stadt', Archithese Internationale Zeitschrift und Schriftenreihe für Architektur, 2013: 6, pp. 70-71.

• 'The Architecture of Psychoanalysis', Cabinet Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture, 2012: 45, pp. 38-45.

• Ernst L. Freud: Architect to the Bourgeoisie of Weimar Germany, Berfrois, March 6, 2012.

• 'The 1925 Master Plan for Tel Aviv by Patrick Geddes', in Tel-Aviv: The First Century, Visions, Designs and Realities, edited by Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), pp. 299-326.

• Introduction to the translation of Helmuth Plessner 'The Renaissance of Form', Art in Translation, 3:1 (2011), pp. 37-52 (pp. 38-39).

• 'From Disc to Sphere', Cabinet Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture, 2011: 40, pp. 19-25.

• Patrick Geddes – von der Biologie zum Städtebau (Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2011).

• '"The Limits of Community"—The Possibilities of Society: On Modern Architecture in Weimar Germany', Oxford Art Journal, 33 (2010), pp. 63-80.

• 'Museum Architecture and Gallery Design', Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, (New York: Routledge, 3rd edition, 2010).

• Scholar’s Choice: Paul Goesch, Web site of the Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/study-centre/628-scholars-choice-paul-goesch (accessed October 8, 2009)

• 'The 1925 Master Plan for Tel Aviv by Patrick Geddes', Israel Studies, 14: 3 (2009), pp. 94-119.

• Introduction to the translation of Kurt Lewin ‘The Landscapes of War’, Art in Translation, 1:3 (2009), pp. 199-209 (p. 200).

• 'Everywhere at any Time—Post-Second World War Genealogies of the City of the Future', The Man-Made Future: Planning, Education and Design in mid-twentieth- century Britain, ed. by Iain Boyd Whyte (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 59-77.

• 'Patrick Geddes', Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (Thieme-Becker), vol 49, (Munich/Leipzig, 2006), ad vocem.

• 'In-between Space and Society—One some British Roots of Team 10’s Urban Thought in the 1950s', Team 10 1953-81—In Search of a Utopia of the Present, ed. by Max Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel (Rotterdam: Netherlands Architecture Institute, 2005), pp. 258-263.

• 'Ernst L Freud—Domestic Architect', Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-1945. Politics, and Cultural Identity, ed. by Shulamith Behr and Marian Malet [The Yearbook of the Research Center for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 6 (2004)], Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 201-237.

• 'Talking Squares—Grids and Grilles as an Architectural Tools for Analysis and Communication', Team 10 between Modernity and the Everyday, ed. Dirk van den Heuvel and Gijs de Waal (Delft: Technische Universiteit, 2004), pp. 181-189.

• 'From Locus Genii to Heart of the City—Embracing the Spirit of the City', The Spirit of the City in Modernity, ed. by Iain Boyd Whyte (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 35-56.

• 'The Return of the Muses—Edinburgh as a Museion', The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts, ed. by Michaela Giebelhausen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 144-159.

• 'Post-War CIAM, Team X, and the Influence of Patrick Geddes', CIAM Team 10-the English Context, ed. by D’Laine Camp, Dirk van den Heuvel, and Gijs de Waal (Delft: Technische Universiteit, 2003), pp. 87-110.

• 'An undocumented Plan for Edinburgh's New Town by James Craig', The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, NS 5 (2002), pp. 107-109.

• 'Menschenmassen—Massenmenschen: über den öffentlichen Raum in der Architektur Norman Fosters', ', ed. by Susanne Anna (Cologne: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2002) (Schriftenreihe des Museums für Angewandte Kunst, Nr. III), pp. 113-120.

• 'Artur Glikson, Thinking-Machines and the Planning of Israel', The City after Patrick Geddes, ed. by Volker M. Welter and James Lawson (Bern: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000), pp. 211-226.

• '"Slum, Semi-slum, Super-slum"—some reflections by Patrick Geddes on Edinburgh's New Town', Architectural Heritage, VIII (1999), pp. 66-73.

• 'Arcades for Lucknow—Patrick Geddes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Reconstruction of the City', Architectural History, 42 (1999), pp. 316-32.

• 'Stages of an Exhibition—The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition of Patrick Geddes', Planning History, 20 (1/1998), pp. 25-35.

• 'Die Stadt als Freilichtmuseum—Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh', Die Alte Stadt, 25 (4/1998), pp. 347-58.

• 'Penser, Classer: Cataloguing Patrick Geddes's Cities and Town Planning Exhibition', Newsletter Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 60/1997, pp. 1-3.

• 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh Retrospektive', Bauwelt, 87 (1996), no. 24, pp. 1351.

• 'History, Biology and City Design—Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh', Architectural Heritage, VI (1996), pp. 61-82.

• 'Bilder aus der Welt von Morgen', Bauwelt, 86 (1995), no. 46, p. 2626.

• 'Patrick Geddes and the City as Organic Unity', Edinburgh Architecture Research, 22 (1995), pp. 11-30ii.

• 'The Geddes Vision of the Region as City—Palestine as a Polis', Social Utopias of the Twenties—Bauhaus, Kibbutz and the Dream of the New Man, ed. by Jeannine Fiedler, published by Bauhaus Dessau and Friedrich Ebert Foundation Tel Aviv (Wuppertal: Müller + Busmann Press, 1995), pp. 72-79.

• 'Paths towards Utopia', Planning History, 16 (3/1994), pp. 32-34.

• 'The Republic of Patrick Geddes', Edinburgh Architecture Research, 21 (1994), pp. 98-118.

• 'Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery im Victoria & Albert Museum, London', Bauwelt, 84 (1993), no. 20, p. 1036.

• 'Festival of Britain 1951', Bauwelt, 84 (1993), no. 5, p. 166.

• 'Von Jaffa nach Tel Aviv', Bauwelt, 83 (1992), no. 15, pp. 836-55.

• '"Ernst ist das Leben, heiter ist die Kunst"—Kunst am Bau in den fünfziger Jahren in Berlin', Zeitschrift des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, 88 (1992), no. 3, pp. 42-59.

• 'Atlantropa Projekte (Atlantropa projects)' and 'Herman Sörgel und sein Kontinent Atlantropa', Bauwelt, 82 (1991), no. 18-19, pp. 946-55, pp. 958-63.

• 'Landhaus Lemke in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen', Bauwelt, 82 (1991), no. 12, p. 536.

• 'Der Ideenwettbewerb für das Hygiene Museum in Dresden 1920', Bauwelt, 81 (1990), no. 44, pp. 2214-19.

• Christoph Fischer and Volker Welter with Sibylle Einholz, 'Eisenguß auf den historischen Friedhöfen in Berlin. Zehn Anmerkungen',  in Aus einem Guß. Eisenguß in Kunst und Technik, ed. by Museum für Verkehr und Technik (Berlin: Nicolai, 1988).