The Bernard and Anne
Spitzer School of Architecture

Carter Wiseman graduated from Yale College, received a Master’s degree in architectural history from Columbia University, and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He was the architecture critic for New York Magazine from 1980 to 1996, and the editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine from 1986 to 2002. The author of I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture, Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers, and Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style, Wiseman teaches at the Yale School ofArchitecture.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen is The New Republic’s architecture critic, and a scholar and theorist of modern and contemporary architecture. The author of Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism and editor, with Rejean Legault, of Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, Goldhagen has published widely in scholarly journals including Assemblage and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, in popular journals and periodicals including the New York Times, Il Giornale d’Architettura, Arquitectura Viva, Le Courrier de l’Architecte and the Harvard Design Magazine, and, in edited collections, most recently, in collections edited by Barbara Maria Stafford (A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities-Sciences Divide), Anthony Vidler (Architecture Between Spectacle and Use), and Stanford Anderson (Alvar Aalto in America). Sarah received her PhD and Master’s at Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1995 and her B.A. from Brown University in 1982. She has taught architectural history and theory at the Harvard Design School (10 years); also at the schools of architecture at Columbia University and University of Texas, Austin, and in the Departments of Art History at Columbia University, Vassar College, and Wellesley College.

Practicing architect, professor, and author. Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. McCarter has also taught at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001, Columbia University, the University of Louisville, the Berlage Institute, and North Carolina State University. He has been involved in the professional practice of architecture continuously since 1977, in California, New York, Florida, and Missouri; he holds an NCARB Certificate; and he has been licensed since 1982. McCarter is the author of Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience (with Juhani Pallasmaa, 2012); Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (2012); Louis I. Kahn (2005); Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Lives (2006); William Morgan: Selected and Current Works (2002); Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); and Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright (1994). Books currently at press include Alvar Aalto: Art & Ideas; Carlo Scarpa; and Aldo van Eyck; books currently under contract include Marcel Breuer; Marcel Breuer Koerfer House; Steven Holl; and Interiority. McCarter has edited the Atlas of 20th Century World Architecture (with Jean-Louis Cohen and Adrian Forty, 2012); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (2005); Building: Machines, Pamphlet Architecture No. 12 (1987); and ABSTRACT Volumes 1-4 (1988-91). He has written essays, chapters and introductions which have been included in over one hundred professional journals, monographs and scholarly publications. Among his awards and honors were selection as one of the Ten Best Educators in Architect magazine, December 2009; two finalists in the RIBA International Book Awards, 2006; Rotch FoundationTraveling Studio Award, 2003; Graham Foundation Grant, 1989; and first prize, SOM Traveling Fellowship Competition, 1983.

Stanislaus von Moos is an art historian born in 1940 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He has published monographs on Le Corbusier (1968ff.; revised and updated edition 2009), Italian Renaissance Architecture (Turm und Bollwerk, 1976), the Architecture of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates (1st volume 1987; 2nd volume 1999) and the History of Industrial Design in Switzerland (Industrieästhetik, ARS HELVETICA, vol.XI, 1992). More recently his publications include Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier (ed., together with Arthur Rüegg, 2001) and Ernst Scheidegger. Chandigarh 1956 (ed., 2010). He has been co-curator of the exhibition "Le Corbusier. The Art of Architecture" (Vitra Design- Museum, 2007f., together with Arthur Rüegg and Mateo Kries) and is currently co-curating "Louis Kahn. The Power of Architecture" (Vitra Design-Museum, 2012, together with Jochen Eisenbrand). His current research involves the impact of the East-West conflict on the history of architecture and urbanism as well as the cross-pollinations between architecture and the visual arts since 1940. He has been professor of Modern Art at the University of Zurich (1983-2005) and is presently the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor at Yale University.

Kenneth Frampton was born in the United Kingdom in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. After practicing for a number of years in the United Kingdom and in Israel, he served as the editor of the British magazine Architectural Design. He has taught at a number of leading institutions including the Royal College of Art, the ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and the Berlage Institute in The Netherlands. He is currently the Ware Professor of Architecture at the GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), Le Corbusier (2001), Labour, Work & Architecture (2005), and an updated fourth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History (2007).

Gina Pollara currently serves as Executive Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park which was designed by the architect Louis I. Kahn on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in New York City. Prior to this, she served as Associate Director of the Architecture Archives of The Cooper Union and co-curated a number of exhibitions including the seminal one on FDR Park in January/February 2005. It was an article in The New York Times about this exhibition that brought the Park project to the attention of its major funder Alphawood Foundation Chicago. Ms. Pollara maintained a practice from 1993 to 2001 designing and overseeing construction of a number of City apartments and residential additions, while concurrently working as: Owner’s Representative for the reconstruction of The Manhasset, an Upper West Side apartment building gutted by a ten-alarm fire; Consultant to the Chief Executive, Division of School Facilities, New York City Board of Education; Analyst for New York City Public School District 10 in The Bronx and Consultant to United Cerebral Palsy in association with the Mayor’s Office of Developmental Disabilities. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union and a Bachelor of Art degree from Bennington College.

Five years ago, Robert Twombly retired as Professor of Architectural History from the Spitzer School, but continues to give spring semester seminars on twentieth-century architects. He has authored dozens of essays and reviews, biographies of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, has edited Sullivan's Public Papers, and with Narciso Menocal published Louis Sullivan: the Poetry of Architecture containing, with much else, a catalogue raisonee of all Sullivan's extant drawings. His best book, he says, is Power & Style: A Critique of Twentieth-Century Architecture in the United States that almost no one read or reviewed because, he says, "it was too overtly political for the profession." He originally wanted to call it "Kiss My Arch" but his publisher refused. In recent years he has edited the Essential Texts of Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Andrew Jackson Downing, and is currently at work revising a manuscript tentatively entitled Philip Johnson's Fascist Career, 1933-1940. He hopes someday to finish writing his murder mystery featuring a pair of architects as sleuths.

William J. R. Curtis is a historian, critic, painter and photographer. Born in 1948 in Birchington, Kent, England, he studied at the Courtauld Institute, London and at Harvard University. He has taught at many universities around the world including Harvard University and the Architectural Association. In 2003-4 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge. Among his best known books are the classic Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Phaidon, 3rd edition, 1996) and Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms (Phaidon, 1986); Balkrishna Doshi: an Architecture for India (Mapin, Rizzoli, 1988) and Denys Lasdun: Architecture, City, Landscape (Phaidon, 1994). More recent publications include: Abstractions in Space (Pulitzer Foundation 2001), The Structure of Shadows, Bell-Lloc (Fundacion Bunka, 2009), and Téodoro Gonzalez de Leon: Complete Works (Arquine 2010). Curtis contributes regularly to journals such as the Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, D’Architectures and El Croquis (with numbers on Siza, Moneo, Navarro Baldeweg, Ando, Miralles/Pinos, RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta etc and a key critical piece: 'Ideas of Architecture and Architectural Ideas'). He also exhibits his own paintings (Mental Landscapes/Paisajes Mentales, Circulo, Madrid 2002) and his own photographs (Structures of Light, Alvar Aalto Museum, 2007). Among his numerous awards: the Founders Award of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) (1982); the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (1984), a National Honors Society Gold Medal in Architecture and Allied Arts (USA) (1999) and a Medal of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (2006). Curtis contributed a major article on Kahn’s works in the Indian sub-continent to the catalogue of the current exhibition ‘Louis Kahn, The Power of Architecture’ (Vitra and NAI, 2012) and also published a historical reassessment, ‘Louis Kahn, The Space of Ideas’, in the Architectural Review, November, 2012.

'Maintaining the Long View: A Conversation Between William J.R. Curtis and George Ranalli' will take place in the Sciame Auditorium on Friday April 12th, 11:00-1:00.