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.