Books 

Forthcoming

Exiled in L.A.: In Search of Leopold Fischer, Émigré Architect, and his Domestic Architecture in Southern California (Getty Publications)

Published

Tremaine Houses: One Family's  Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America (Getty Publications, 2019)

Review: 

• Lauren Weiss Bricker, Review: Tremaine Houses: One Family’s Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 110–111 .

Walter S. White: Invention in mid-century modern Architecture (Santa Barbara: UCSB-Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, 2015; enhanced ePub edition: 2017).

Reviews of book (and related exhibition): 

• "Sexy, Curvaceous Roofs: Exhibit focuses on expressionistic, wild house designs by architect Walter White", Eichler Network, October 2015.

• Ben Loescher, "White Goods", Architects' Newspaper, December 24, 2015.

• "Free Thinker with a Playful Roofline", CAModern, Fall 2016, p. 24.

• Merilee Colton, "Meet Walter White, an early Palm Desert Architect, The Desert Sun, November 15, 2016.

• Merilee Colton, "Walter White Raised Desert Profiles", The Desert Sun, November 27, 2016, p. 29A-30A.

Ernst L. Freud und das Landhaus Frank. Ein Wohnhaus der Moderne bei Berlin (Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2014)

Reviews: 

• Mitteilungsblatt der Landesgeschichtlichen Vereinigung für die Mark Brandenburg e.V., Jg. 116 Heft 2 (2015)

• potsdamlife / Rubrik: Gesellschaft & Lifestyle, Heft 40 (2015)

Recommendations: 

• Fraunhofer IRB, 1. Juni 2015

Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home (Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2012)

Reviews: 

• Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association October 2012, vol. 60, no. 5, 1094-1100; 

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• Society of Architectural Historians Southern California Chapter

• West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

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

Biopolis—Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 2002; 2003 paperback edition) 

The City after Patrick Geddes, ed. by Volker M. Welter and James Lawson (Bern: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000) 

Collecting Cities—Images from Patrick Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition (Glasgow: Collins Gallery, 1999) 

The Papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, ed. by James McGrath, Samantha Searle and Volker M. Welter, 6 vols (Glasgow: Strathclyde University Archives, 1999)

Gebaut—Erste Bauten Berliner Architekten / Built—First Commissions of Berlin Architects (Berlin: Architektenkammer Berlin, 1995)

Christoph Fischer and Volker Welter (authors, eds.): Frühlicht in Beton. Das Erbbegräbnis Wissinger von Max Taut and Otto Freundlich in Stahnsdorf. Geschichte und Hintergründe der Entstehung. Dokumentation der Restaurierung  (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1989)