Faculty Research & Publications

Our core faculty have pioneered research in building technology, cultural arts, housing, history, and urban sustainability. Below you can see a small selection of highlights of their recent work, from practice to research to publications. You can also visit individual faculty profile pages to learn more.

Research Spotlights

Infrastructural Optimism

In her new book, Linda C. Samuels argues that optimism is a critical driver of public investment, societal progress, and—perhaps—democracy itself.

Research Spotlights

Watershed Moments

Managing 21st-centure waterways will require coordination on a continental scale, argues Associate Professor Derek Hoeferlin—and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.

Research Spotlights

Confronting Urbanization

In her work at the Venice Biennale, Petra Kempf combines copious data and mischievous symbolism to explore how smart phones, online commerce and global connectivity are reshaping the urban terrain.

Research Spotlights

Edges of Privacy: Open Access Walkways in Collective Housing

Eric P. Mumford and Mónica Rivera are Co-PIs on a grant-funded project exploring historic and contemporary built examples of open walkways in housing in Europe and Latin America.

Research Spotlights

On Olive Redevelopment Project

Assistant professor Constance Vale is among the celebrated architects selected to design homes on the north side of Olive Street as part of the On Olive redevelopment project.

Aerial photo of construction work on a new viaduct project in Los Angeles, with the city skyline in the background.

Smiling person in lifevest stands on a riverbank with a bridge behind.

Large-format diagram of small, floating lilypad clusters interspersed with falling pink umbrellas, arranged in a pattern.

Photo of a covered walkway outside a single-story building; to the left of the walkway are two-level rows of lush plants blooming with red, pink, and white flowers.

Rendering of the exterior facade of a modular home, with two rectangular wings with rectangular panels framing the entrance. Lush landscaping is in front of the home, with trees to the sides.

In her new book, Linda C. Samuels argues that optimism is a critical driver of public investment, societal progress, and—perhaps—democracy itself.

Managing 21st-centure waterways will require coordination on a continental scale, argues Associate Professor Derek Hoeferlin—and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.

In her work at the Venice Biennale, Petra Kempf combines copious data and mischievous symbolism to explore how smart phones, online commerce and global connectivity are reshaping the urban terrain.

Eric P. Mumford and Mónica Rivera are Co-PIs on a grant-funded project exploring historic and contemporary built examples of open walkways in housing in Europe and Latin America.

Assistant professor Constance Vale is among the celebrated architects selected to design homes on the north side of Olive Street as part of the On Olive redevelopment project.

Selection of Faculty Work

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Faculty Publications

Our faculty are widely published, from book publications to journal articles. A small selection of those titles are featured here.

Black-and-white book cover featuring a photo of tall buildings, with white and orange type stating the title: Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Sicne 1850 by Eric Mumford

Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850

Infrastructural Optimism

Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton

Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture

Additional select publications:

Catalina Freixas

Segregation by Design: Conversations and Calls for Action in St. Louis (2019); with co-author Mark Abbott

Patty Heyda

Rebuilding the American City (Routledge, 2016); with co-author D. Gamble

Zeuler Lima

Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings (Princeton University Press, May 2019)

Robert McCarter

Place Matters: The Architecture of WG Clark (ORO, 2019)
Grafton Architects (Phaidon Press, 2018)
The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (Thames & Hudson, 2017)
The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (Reaktion Books, 2016)
Marcel Breuer (Phaidon Press, 2016)

Eric Mumford

Defining urban design: CIAM Architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-69 (Yale University Press, April 2009)

Jenny Price

Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto (‎W. W. Norton & Company, April 2021)

Constance Vale

Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Actar, March 2021); with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich.