Papers & Lectures
Vorträge & Vorlesungen
Forthcoming
Four German-speaking Émigré Architects in California, paper to be presented at Displaced Lives: Architects seeking Refuge on the Brink of the Second World War, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, June 2024
Tremaine Houses: The untold Story of the mid-20th-century Santa Barbara Homes that made Modern Architectural History, Kitchell Architecture and Design Lecture Series, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB, and Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, April 2020 (postponed to June 2020 because of Corona Virus Pandemic)
Tremaine Houses, lecture at Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter and Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, April 2020, (postponed to June 2020 because of Corona Virus Pandemic).
The Modern Turn: Lutah Maria Riggs, Emily Tremaine, and the Creation of a Modern California Home, paper to be delivered at 2020 International Archive of Women in Architecture Symposium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, March 2020, postponed to March 2021 (because of Corona Virus pandemic).
Tremaine Houses: How One Family Shaped Midcentury Modern Architecture, lecture at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 2020.
Reliving World War I in Southern California: Richard Neutra's mid-20th century Domestic Architecture and the modern Landscape of War, workshop talk, The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, University Of Texas Dallas, April 2019.
Photobooks and the Architectural Imagination of Southern California, paper read at the conference The British, American, and French Photobook: Commitment, Memory, Materiality, and the Art Market (1900-2019), Maison Française, Oxford, March 2019.
Zehlendorf in London, Hiddensee in Walberswick, but nothing left in Berlin? The Double Exile of Ernst L. Freud, Architect, paper read at the conference Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics, and Culture in Britain and Germany, 1919-1951, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, November 2018.
Echoes from the Great War: Richard Neutra’s Domestic Architecture in 1940s Southern California, paper read at America in the Trenches - A Centennial Exploration of America’s Involvement in the Great War, WW1 Conference at CSU Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California, October 2018.
Out of the Battlefields of the Great War: Modern Space as Extended Environment, paper read at the 2018 Annual Symposium Architecture, the Built Environment, and the Aftermath of the First World War, Society of Architectural Historian of Great Britain, London, June 2018.
Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern Architecture and the Great War, paper read at the International Colloquium Revival after the Great War: Repair, Rebuild, Remember, City of Leuven and KU Leuven University, Belgium, May 2018.
Modern Bankers, modern Architecture: Two Jewish Country Houses from the 1920s near Berlin, paper read at the workshop The Jewish Country House, The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities, University of Oxford, and Waddesdon Manor, March 2018.
Walter S. White: Inventing a Desert Architecture, lecture at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 2018.
Architecture, History, and Community Building: The Second Life of the Miles C. Bates House (1954-55), Palm Desert, CA, paper read at The Humanities in the Community: 2017 Convening of the Western Humanities Alliance, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB, November 2017.
Walter S. White: Inventing a Desert Architecture, lecture at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, October 2017.
California under the Kissing Camels: W.S. White, Architect, in Colorado Springs, paper read at Enduring Legacies & Forgotten Landmarks, 14th Annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, CO, June 2017.
Tremaine Houses, 1930s-1970s: The Quest for the Perfect Modern Home, lecture at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 2017.
Moderne Architekten, traditionelle Bauherren, gediegenes Leben, paper read at Architekten, Bankiers und ihre Villen Symposium, Historische Gesellschaft der Deutschen Bank, Frankfurt-upon-Main, June 22, 2016.
Walter Stares White, Jr. (1917-2002): Desert Architecture, lecture at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 2015.
The Evolution of Umwelt: Stages in the Architectural Design of the Anthropocene, paper read at Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Humanities and Fine Arts, conference Interdisicplinary Humanities Center, UCSB, March 2015.
At Home with Ernst Freud, Architect Son of Sigmund Freud, lecture at The Freud Museum, London, United Kingdom, May 2014.
Environment versus “City of Tomorrow”, paper read at Utopia and the Ends of the City, 16th Annual International Conference – Utopian Studies Society (Europe) Newcastle University, UK, July 2015.
From the Valley Section to the Sitzlandschaft: Designing with Portable Landscapes in View, paper read at Portable Landscapes conference, Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (CVAC), College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham University, UK, July 2015.
At Home with Ernst Freud, Architect Son of Sigmund Freud, lecture at The Freud Museum, London, United Kingdom, May 2014.
“Open Order”-“Open Plan”: One a Possible Root of Modern Architecture on the Battlefields of the Great War, paper read at the symposium Architecture under Attack: Destruction and Renewal in and after World War I, Architecture, Space and Society Network, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom, June 2014.
Elusive Pasts, Fleeting Futures—Private Homes as Sites and Objects of Memories, paper read at Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture, International Conference Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2014.
“In what Style should we build?”—Two 19th-century Synagogues in German-speaking Europe, lecture at Music in Court and Culture. Jewish Life in Sound and Space: late 19th-century Berlin and Vienna, Department of Music, UCSB, February 2013.
From Total Works of Art to Comprehensive Environments: The Tremaine Houses in Santa Barbara, California, paper read at 12. International Bauhaus-Colloquium Weimar ‘Henry Van de Velde and the Total Work of Art’, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, April 2013.
From Landscape of War to Environmental Architecture: On Neutra’s mid-20th-Century Architecture in Southern California, paper read at Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden, Symposium and Exhibition, University of Delaware, June 2013.
Ernst L. Freud, Architect, lecture for the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter, Santa Monica Public Library, January 2012.
The White City: Tel Aviv and the Bauhaus, lecture during Modernism Week, Palm Springs, California, February 2012.
Ernst L. Feud: Designer of Psychoanalytic Consulting Rooms in Weimar Berlin, Center for the History of Psychology, University of Akron, Ohio, February 2012.
Ernst L. Freud and Walter S. White: Other Modernists or Modernism’s Other?, paper read in session ‘Modernism’s Other: Lost Histories of Architecture’, 38th Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, March 2012.
Ernst L. Freud: Wohnhausarchitekt des Berliner und Londoner Bürgertums, lecture at the Erich-Mendelsohn-Stiftung, Berlin, September 2012
Umwelt-Seeing the World from the Inside Out, paper read at Think Spatial UCSB brown-bag forum on spatial thinking, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 2011
Ecce Terra—Behold the Earth, paper read at 63rd Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, April 2010
What then is sustainable Architecture?, roundtable contribution at Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice, and Global Ecologies, American Cultures & Global Context, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 22-23, 2009
Umwelt—The World surrounding or opposing us?, paper read at the symposium Words in Postwar Architectural Discourse, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, June 19-20, 2009
Toward an History of Environmental Architecture, paper read for the Study Centre Seminars, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 6, 2009
Ceremony and Etiquette—Diplomacy and Tact: On the Modern Bourgeois Interior in Weimar Germany, paper read at Staging the Modern Interior, 10th Dorich House Annual Conference, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom May 15-16, 2008.
Searching for Shangri La—Architecture and the Quest for Sustainability, paper read at the International Colloquium on Sustainable Architecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, June 15-16, 2007.
“The Limits of Community”— Non-Radical Modernism in Architecture from the 1920s, keynote lecture at International Colloquium Making a New World—Reforming and Designing Modern Communities in Interwar Europe, Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, June 9-10, 2006.
Analysis of an Architect—Ernst L. Freud and the Idea of the Inconspicuous Home, paper read at Work in Progress series, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, February 6, 2004.
The Case of Ernst L. Freud—Inconspicuous Architecture as (Auto)biography, paper read at 57th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians, Rhode Island, April 2004.
The Architecture & Environment Undergraduate Emphasis at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB, talk at the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara Chapter, Santa Barbara, California, October 20, 2004.
Architecture without Qualities—Reflections on the Architecture of Ernst L. Freud (1892, Vienna-1970, London), paper read at the symposium Ernst A. Plischke and the Austrian Avant-Garde in Emigration, held at the Architektur Zentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21 March 2003.
Talking Squares—Grids and Grilles as an Architectural Tools for Analysis and Communication, paper read at the conference Team 10, between Modernity and the Everyday, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 5-6 June 2003.
At Home with Ernst L. Freud, paper read at the conference Architektur und Assimilation. Die jüdischen Baumeister Berlins, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 10-13 September 2003.
Noble Savage or Cosmopolite—Who is it that wants to live mobile?, paper read at the symposium Where or What is Home?—Mobile Architecture versus Permanent Dwelling, University of California Santa Barbara, October 11, 2003.
Everywhere at any Time: Lewis Mumford, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and the Genealogy of the Modern City, paper read at 55th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians, Richmond, Virginia, 17-21 April 2002.
People and Things, Grids and Cities—Diagrammatic Approaches to Urban Realities, c. 1900-c. 1950, paper read at the colloquium Architecture and Knowledge—The Mundaneum and European Antecedents of the World Wide Web, held at the Mundaneum, Archive and Museum, Mons, Belgium, 24-25 May 2002.
The Heart of the City—From CIAM 6 to CIAM 10, the British contribution to the critique of the functionalist city, paper read at invited research symposium Team 10 Project, Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, 5 November 2001.
Theories of the Region around 1900: Patrick Geddes and Others, guest lecture, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 February 2000.
Genius Loci—Locus Genii: Embracing the Spirit of the City, paper read at Body & Soul, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 6 - 9 April 2000.
The Metaphysical Imperative in Urban Design around 1900, paper read at symposium Modernity and the Spirit of the City, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 26 March 1999, and as guest lecture at Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, 27 April 1999.
Artur Glikson, Thinking Machines and the Planning of Israel, paper read at The City after Patrick Geddes, an international symposium at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Architecture, 8 - 10 May 1998.
The Return of the Muses—The City as Museion, paper read at Structures & Practices, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, Courtauld Institute, London, 4 - 6 April 1997.
The City and the Pursuit of History, guest lecture in series Dundee Conservation Lectures 1997-98, School of Town & Regional Planning, University of Dundee, Dundee, 18 November 1997.
Patrick Geddes’s Hebrew University—A Temple of Life for Jerusalem and the Region of Palestine, paper read at The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art - Fifth International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Centre of Jewish Art, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, 16 - 23 June 1996.
Biopolis—Patrick Geddes und die Stadt des Lebens, guest lecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 11 December 1996.
From Edinburgh to Palestine—Patrick Geddes as City Designer, guest lecture at the Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, 14 March 1995.
Patrick Geddes and Palestine, lecture for Views from the Outlook Tower, Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies, The University of Edinburgh, 17. Mai 1995.
The Region-City—Similarities and Differences between Patrick Geddes’s and Lewis Mumford’s Ideas of Regionalism, paper read at Patrick Geddes—Lewis Mumford Symposium, Manifesto—The Edinburgh Festival for Architecture and Design, 5 November 1995.
The Geddes Vision of a Region as City—The Example of Palestine, paper read at Social Utopias of the Early Twentieth Century—Bauhaus, Kibbutz and the Vision of a New Society, symposium at the Bauhaus in Dessau, 28 August - 4 September 1994, organized by the Goethe-Institut, Tel Aviv, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Tel Aviv.
A Polis for Palestine—Patrick Geddes’s Theory of the City and his Masterplan for Tel Aviv, paper read at 1994 International Style Architecture Conference, Tel Aviv, 22 - 28 May 1994, organized by the UNESCO and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.