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“Mobile Perception and the Double Aperture: Conceptualism, the Car and Urban Sprawl,” Comini Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, April 24, 2008
“From Tower to Megastructure: The Technocratic Aesthetics of French Suburban Housing,” A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis, International Conference, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, Reston, VA, April 6-8, 2008
“Collecting and Collectivity: Contemporary Art and the Interstices of Acquisition and Community,” Session Co-Chair with Noah Simblist of 96th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Dallas, Texas, February 20-23, 2008
“Mobile Perception, the Double Aperture and Conceptual Art 1965-1974,” Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility, T2M Association, Helmond, The Netherlands, 25-28 October, 2007
Discussion of Art Criticism, for Dr. Marianne Woods, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Dallas Museum of Art, October 3, 2007
“Revisiting White Walls: Fashion, Flamboyance, and The Rachofsky House,” Public Talk at The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, June 9, 2007
“Fabric, Fashion and the Fold in Architecture,” Meadows Museum,
SMU, Dallas, Texas, April 26, 2007
“The Female Bodies Politic in Contemporary Architecture and Art,” 42nd Annual Women’s Symposium, SMU, Dallas, Texas, March 1,
2007
“Object: Objectivity, Objecthood Objectification,” Guest Lecturer in
ARTS 1301 Exploration of the Arts,
University of Texas at Dallas, January 19, 2007
“Technocratic Aesthetics: Pragmatic Planning and Modern Housing in
Postwar France, 1945-1975,” International Planning
History Conference, New Delhi, India, December 11-14,
2006
“Brazilian Cities:
Mega-Urbanism and More,” Dallas Architecture Forum,
Dallas, Texas, November 14, 2006
“Machismo, Castration, Homophobia: A Progressive Politics of
Masculinity in the work of McCarthy, Barney, and Gober,”
Southeastern College Art Conference, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee, October 25-28, 2006
“Collecting and Collectivity: The Enigmatic Dialectic of Dallas," La
Reunion Artists Residency Program, Dallas, Texas,
September 28, 2006
“Revisiting White Walls: Fashion, Flamboyance, and The Rachofsky House,”
Public Talk at The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas,
June 8, 2006
“Annlee: Pierre Huyghe’s Cipher of Urban Decentralization and Sprawl,”
59th Annual Meeting of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia, April
26-29, 2006
“Collecting and
Collectivity: The Enigmatic Dialectic of Dallas,"
Dallas Association of Social Historians, Southern
Methodist University, February, 2006
Critic and Discussant
in “Critical Issues Around Dialogues: Duchamp,
Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg,” Dallas Museum of
Art, November 3, 2005
“The Art of Urban
Planning,” The Salon at the Nasher Sculpture Center,
Dallas, Texas, October 20, 2005
“Myths of Miasma:
French Film and Modern Housing on the Fringe,” Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Fort Worth, Texas, October
12-15, 2005
“Smell and the City:
Myths of Miasma, French Film and Modern Housing on the
Fringe,” International Conference Arakawa and Gins:
Architecture and Philosophy, University of Paris X-Nanterre,
France, September 30-October 1, 2005
“What is Beauty?” The
Salon at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas,
April 21, 2005
“Typology’s History
and the History of Typology: the 1970s and Beyond,”
Session Co-Organized with Brendan D. Moran for the
58th Annual Meeting of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia,
April 6-10, 2005
“New Urbanism in Dallas: Pragmatics of Profit or the
Morals of Authentic City Experience?” The Picturing
of the American West, A Collaboration between the
Meadows Department of Art History & the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Dallas, Texas,
March 31, 2005
Art Talk on Urbanisms of Risk: Economies of
Technology, War and World in Art, Architecture and the
City, an exhibition at the University of Texas at
Dallas, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas,
Texas, January 26, 2005
“Rethinking the Vernacular: Cosmopolitan Views onto
the Texan Glocal,”
Supporting Art at the Grass Roots,
Symposium at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas, December, 11, 2004
“Time, Sound and the City: Bergsonian Urbanism in
France, 1935-1965,” EAAE Conference The European
City – Architectural Interventions and Urban
Transformations, Delft/Antwerp, Delft, The
Netherlands, October 27-30, 2004
"Irredentist Urbanism:
Border Politics and Modernism along the French-German
Border, 1945-1958," VIIIth International Docomomo
Conference, New York City, September 26-28, 2004
“Ceçi n’est pas
une architecture: The Urban Tectonic of le
grand ensemble,” Urbanism and Urbanization,
International Ph.D. Seminar in Urbanism, Department of
Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, K.U. Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium, February 19-21, 2004
“The Architecture of
Boston: Constructing American Memory,” English
Language Course, Instructor Catherine Gaudin-Deryng,
École Municipale Supérieure d’Arts de Rueil-Malmaison,
Rueil-Malmaison, France, March 10, 2003
“Non-Conformist
Modernism: les grands ensembles and the Forms
of the French State,” Seminar in Architecture History
and Theory, Professor Pieter Uyttenhove, University of
Gent, Gent, Belgium. February 27, 2003
“Renaissance Today:
Process in the Present and Reinscribing the Architect
Anew,” Journal Début for OASE, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, October 3, 2002
"French State
Vernacular: Post-World War II Reconstruction, les grands ensembles, and National Renewal through
Active Forgetting," Value of Practice and Knowledge in
Building the Second Postwar City, European Association
of Urban Historians, Sixth International Conference,
Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-7, 2002
“In the Blindspot of Patrimoine: Modern Housing and Constructions of
French Citizenship,” The Metropolis and Nationalism
European Association of Urban Historians, Sixth
International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland,
September 5-7, 2002
“An Architecture of
Animal Spirits: Contemporary Architecture and the
Condition of the Avant-Garde Promise,” Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture, New Orleans,
Louisiana, April 11-14, 2002
Critic and
Discussant, “Firminy,” Photographs by Arni Haraldsson,
Photographs of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation (1968), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, February 8, 2002
“Architecture
Engaged: Leftist Politics, the Avant-Garde and Claims
of Criticality in Architecture,” What’s Left of
Theory? Cultural Studies Association of Australia,
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December
8-10, 2001
"Architecture Unread:
A Politics of the Urban Image and the End of
Architectural Legibility in the French Suburb,"
International Sociological Association, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, June 15-17, 2001
“Performing the
Frame: Daniel Buren, Degree Zero Painting and a
Politics of Beauty,” The Performance of Place,
Departments of French Studies and Art History,
University of Bermingham, England, May 26-27, 2001
“Pop Art: A Short
History, or, Towards a Contemporary (Globalized)
Ontology,” Maximilien Vox, Lycée du Livre & des Arts
Graphiques, Paris, France, March 19 and 21, 2001
"W(h)ither
Postmodernism? Heresy and the Amorals of Contemporary
Architecture," PostModern Productions, 3rd
International Postgraduate Conference, University of
Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, November 24-26, 2000
"The Speech-Act of
Revolution: Henri Lefebvre and the Collective Event of
Language," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Miami, Florida, June 14-18,
2000
"The Art of
Iconoclasm: Concept, Riot and the Stuff of
Architecture Pedagogy," Critical Studies in
Architectural Culture Conference, Department of
Architecture and Urban Design, University of
California Los Angeles, May 19, 2000
Principal Organizer
of "Architecture's Ontologies," Graduate Student
Workshop Sponsored by a Grant from the Ford
Foundation, Sanford Kwinter, Keynote Speaker, Harvard
University, May 5, 2000
"Visionary
Iconoclasm: Revolution and the Subversion of Visual
Representation in Guy Debord's Cinematic Practices,"
Eleventh Annual Berkeley Symposium, Art History
Department, University of California, Berkeley, March
18, 2000
Principal Organizer
of "Testing Ground: Questioning the Boundaries Between
History and Theory," Symposium Jointly Organized by
Harvard and M.I.T. Ph.D. Students in Architecture and
Urban History and Theory, Funded by a Grant from the
Graham Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, April 23-24, 1999
"Dwelling as Urban
Idea: Functionalist Housing and the Events of May
1968," Hypotheses, Princeton University, February
12-13, 1999
"From Ur to Urban
Sprawl: A Survey of Urban History," Career Discovery
Architectural Design Program, Harvard University, July
15, 1998
"Henri Lefebvre's
Urban Theory and the Decentralization of Paris,"
Graduate Student Colloquium, Art History Department,
University of Illinois at Chicago, September 2, 1997
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