Michael Osman
Biographical interview
SUMMARY
During this interview, Michael discusses his interest in understanding architecture as part of larger economic, ecological, technical, and bureaucratic systems. He traces this approach beyond his work with Aggregate to his earlier study of history at the University of Chicago. He explains the founding of Aggregate at MIT and the ideas shaping both his approach to writing history and the work of his generation and peers. The interview concludes with his reflections on the evolving relationship between architectural history and design within professional architecture schools.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Osman teaches architectural history and theory at UCLA, where he also directs the MA/PhD programs in Critical Studies of Architecture. His work explores connections between the infrastructure that undergirds the processes of modernization and the historiography of modernist architecture. His first book was Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America and he recently co-edited Writing Architectural History with the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, a group he helped found fifteen years ago.
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