About My Work
My research examines the history and theory of modern architecture and urbanism, with a particular interest in cities in France, North Africa and the Mediterranean region. My book, Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) received the 2013 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. My current book project, tentatively entitled Inventing Informality, examines the history of the bidonville (shantytown) as an urban form, a subject of visual representation, a site of knowledge production, an object of social and spatial reengineering, and a space of contestation. A second project considers the landscapes of development that emerged in post-revolutionary Algeria and the networks of connection across the non-aligned movement through which they emerged.
Citations
Inventing Informality, book project in process.
“Housing as Battleground: Targeting the City in the Battles of Algiers,” for special issue of City and Society, entitled “The Unexceptional Middle Eastern City,” edited by Sarah El-Kazaz and Kevin Mazur; April 2017.
“Rewriting the Battle of Algiers: Ephemeral Tactics in the City at War,” Space and Culture, 18:4 (November 2015): 1–24.
“The Shantytown of Algiers and the Colonization of Everyday Life.” In Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture, edited by Kenny Cupers, 111–27. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2011.
“On the Edge: The Internal Frontiers of Architecture in Algiers/Marseille,” Journal of Architecture, 16:6 (December 2011): 941–73.
“Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections between Marseille and Algiers.” In The Spaces of the Modern City, edited by Gyan Prakash & Kevin Kruse, 99–143. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Professional Associations
European Architectural History Network
Society of Architectural Historians
Middle East Studies Association