Michael Osman
Biographical interview
SUMMARY
During this interview, Michael discusses his interest in understanding architecture is as part of larger economies, ecologies and technical or bureaucratic systems has roots that proceed his work with Aggregate and go back to his history degree at the University of Chicago. He explains the founding of Aggregate at MIT and the ideas behind both his own approach to history writing and the ideas of his generation and peers. At the end of the interview, Michael describes his view on the relationship between architectural history and architectural design within the context of the professional school and how they have evolved.
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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