Curriculum Vitae
Andrew M. Shanken
Professor 510/527-5991 (h)
Department of Architecture 510/666-7092 (cell)
University of California, Berkeley
232 Wurster Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Education
Haverford College (1986-1990), B.A. in the Growth and Structure of Cities and History
Princeton University (1993-1995) M.A. in Art History
Princeton University (1995-1999) Ph.D. in Art History
Teaching and Work
2015-present Full Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2010-2015 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2004-2010 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2000-2004 Oberlin College, Assistant Professor, Department of Art
1999-2000 Bryn Mawr College, Lecturer, Growth and Structure of Cities,
Princeton University, Instructor, Writing Program
University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Department of Art History
1996-1998 Princeton University, Assistant Master, Butler College
1991-92 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Summerbridge Louisville, a non- profit summer school for “at risk” middle school students. Kentucky Country Day School, Louisville, 6th and 7th grade history
Books
194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair.
University of California Press, 2015
Off the Map: The Image in American Urban Planning (work in progress)
The Everyday Life of Memorials (work in progress)
Chapters in Books
“How to Celebrate a Bridge,” in Lynne Horiuchi and Tanu Sankalia, eds., Urban
Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2017)
“Towards a Cultural Geography of Memorials,” in Architecture and Interpretation:
Essays for Eric Fernie ( Woodbridge, U.K.; Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2012).
“Memory and Its Discontents: On the Fringes of the Memory Industry,” in Marc Treib, Ed., Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape (Routledge, 2009).
“The Guilt Environment,” City of Refuge: A 9/11 Memorial (London: Black Dog
Publishing, 2009). This is part of a volume of critical essays about an alternative
memorial to the events of September 11th by the internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Articles
“A Capsule History of American Memorials from World War I to the Present,” Diccionario de Memoria (Forthcoming 2018)
“Plot Lines: A Story about Edmund Bacon,” OASE: Journal of Architecture 98 (2017): 9-20.
“FTM(TF): Allegories of Electricity from Edison to Wifi,” Women’s Studies 46, 5 (June 2017): 415-441.
“Glen Park BART,” Archipedia (2017)
“Remember This! A Memory Manifesto, for Architects,” Room One Thousand 5 (2017): 53-56. Co-authored.
“The Fair that Never Was: Architecture and Urban Boosterism at the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair,” California History 93, 1 (March 2016): 4-25.
“Keeping Time with the Good War,” American Studies Journal 59 (Spring 2015).
“Losing My Religion in Oaxaca,” Room One Thousand (Fall 2015).
“The Tree in the System: Shifting Urban Paradigms in Mid-Century,” Perspecta 45
(2012): 143-152.
“Preservation and Creation: Alfonso Rubbiani and Bologna,” Future Anterior 7, 1
(Summer 2010): 61-81.
“Le case dei borghesi, 1879,” Translation, Future Anterior 7, 1 (Summer 2010): 82-95.
“Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War,” Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians 69, 3 (September, 2010): 406-31.
“Making the Point,” in Building Blocks: Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco,
California (Lennar Urban, 2010): 49-55.
“The Sublime ‘Jackass:’ Transgression and Play in the Inner Suburbs,” Places 19, 3 (Fall,
2007) 50-55.
“Confederates on the Fairway: A Civil War Themed Subdivision in Rural Ohio,”
Landscape (September 2007)
“Better Living: Towards a Cultural History of a Business Slogan.” Enterprise and
Society (Sept., 2006) 485-519.
“The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930’s and
1940’s,” Art Bulletin 88 (June, 2006) 310-327.
“Memento More: Putting the New Wave of Memorials into Context,” Frameworks (Fall, 2005), the journal of the College of Environmental Design.
“Between Brotherhood and Bureaucracy: Joseph Hudnut, Louis I. Kahn and the
American Society of Planners and Architects.” Planning Perspectives 20, 2 (April, 2005): 147-175.
“From the Gospel of Efficiency to Modernism: A History of Sweet’s Catalog, 1906
-1947,” Design Issues 21, 2 (Spring, 2005): 28-47.
“Research on Memorials and Monuments,” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones
Estéticas 84 (2004) 163-172.
“Planning Memory: The Rise of Living Memorials in the United States during World
War II,” Art Bulletin 84 (March 2002): 130-147. Awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association, 2003.
“Critical Essay,” Case Study Cleveland (in the catalogue for the exhibition of the same
name at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, May, 2002): unpaginated
“Corporate Competitions and Bureaucracy, 1934-1945,” Architectural Research
Quarterly 3, 1 (1999): 43-54.
Editorial Work
Urban Pilgrimage, special issue of Room One Thousand (2015), faculty adviser. Sponsored by the Mellon Global Urban Humanities Initiative.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Glass,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture
“Memorials,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture
“Sigfried Giedion,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture
Reviews
Review, Jean-Louis Cohen, Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the
Second World War (New Haven and Montreal: Yale University Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2011), in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71, 4 (December 2012): pp. 559-560
Review, Gwendolyn Wright, USA: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion
Press/University of Chicago Series, 2008), in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 68, No. 3 (September 2009), pp. 431-432
Review, Peter Galison and Emily Thompson, eds., The Architecture of Science, for CAA
Reviews Online (March, 2000)
Editorial Positions
American National Biography, Advisory Editor, Architecture
Fellowships, Grants, Awards
2018 Senior Fellow, Global Urban Humanities—Townsend Center Fellows Seminar.
2017 Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Northwestern University. P.I. with Valentina Rozas Krause as co-investigator.
2016-17 Senior Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley
2016 Art of Writing Curriculum Grant, Townsend Center, U.C. Berkeley
2015 Mellon Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Course Preparation Grant for
City of Memory, U.C. Berkeley.
2015 Joan E. Draper, Architectural History Fund, Department of Architecture,
U.C. Berkeley. To host the 2017 California Design Colloquium
2014 Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship. Sabbatical support for Off the
Map: A Visual History of American Planning
2014 Mellon Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Student-Faculty Publications
Grant, for Urban Pilgrimage, a special issue of Room 1000.
2013 Joan E. Draper Architectural History Fund, Department of Architecture, U.C. Berkeley. Grant to improve architectural history culture
2012 Joan E. Draper Architectural History Fund, Department of Architecture,
U.C. Berkeley
2012 Committee on Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley
2012 MRG, U.C.: California Architecture and Design
2011 Committee on Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley: Flexibility as Keyword
2010 Committee on Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley: Into the Void Pacific
2009 Committee on Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley: Into the Void Pacific
2008 Joan E. Draper Architectural History Fund, Department of Architecture,
U.C. Berkeley
2007 President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Sabbatical support
Humanities Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Sabbatical support
2006 Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Summer
Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley
2004-05 Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant, Committee on Research, U.C. Berkeley
Mellon Library/Faculty Fellows for Undergraduate Research, U.C. Berkeley
2003 Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awarded 2003.
The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Changed to a Visitorship on my request
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Changed to an affiliation on my request. Awarded 2003.
2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Grant-in-Aid, Oberlin College, to support research and writing
1998-1999 Chester Dale Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery
1997 American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Grant
Smithsonian Institution, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
1995 Charles Peterson Fellowship, Philadelphia Athenaeum
1994 D.A.A.D. German Exchange,
1993 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993-94.
1991 Phi Beta Kappa, 1991.
Conferences (organized)
“Across the Great Divide: Design in California,” March 10, 2017, U.C. Berkeley. Co
organizer with Marc Treib, Waverly Lowell, and Greg Castillo. This was the second conference of the California Design Colloquium
“New Thinking about California,” March 8, 2014, U.C. Berkeley. Co-organizer with
Marc Treib and Margaret Crawford. This was the first of a planned bi-annual
conference for the California Design Colloquium.
Competitions
Memory Confessional, for Memory (Flash Competition), Fall, 2016. Entered with my course on Architecture and Memory.
Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition, 2010. Consultant with Nicholas de Monchaux and Elijah Huge.
Just Jerusalem, for the design of Jerusalem in 2050. Co-designer with Hillary Mushkin
National Aids Memorial Competition, 2005 Finalist. Historical consultant for Ravee
Choksombatchai.
Tsunami Memorial Competition, 2006, Finalist. Historical consultant for Ravee
Choksombatchai.
Exhibitions
2015
“Exceptional Expositions,” Co-Curator of the 1939 section with Waverly Lowell,
Environmental Design Archives, Berkeley, Fall 2015.
2008
“Fatal Design,” Co-Curator with Waverly Lowell, Environmental Design
Archives, Berkeley, Fall 2008.
Selected Professional Talks and Lectures
2017
“FTM (TF): Allegories of the Body Electric,” Twice-Told Tales, American Studies 2017 Conference, May 3, 2017, U.C. Berkeley.
2016
“Image as Embedded Series: A Teardown of Edmund Bacon,” Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, April 2016.
“The Fair that Never Was: Alternate Visions for the 1939 World’s Fair,” Treasure Island
Museum, February 27, 2016.
“Radburn, Imola, and the Modern Oikoumene,” College Art Association, Washington,
D.C., February 6, 2016.
2015
“Regionalism and the Architecture of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition,”
San Francisco Public Library, November 21, 2015.
“The Image in Urban Planning,” Session Organizer, Society for American City and
Regional Planning History, Pasadena, November 7, 2015.
“Out of the Mud: The Evolution of Treasure Island,” speaker, American Planning
Association, October 3, 2015, Oakland.
“Radburn as Oikoumene,” Urban History Working Group, October 14, 2015.
“Very Empty, But Not False: The Architecture of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair,”
Environmental Design Library, Berkeley, September 17, 2015.
“Pacific on Their Minds: The Architecture of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair,”
Berkeley Historical Society, July 2, 2015.
2014
“The Origins of Treasure Island,” ProductSF: Building Better Products Conference,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, June 13, 2014.
“The Everyday Life of Memorials,’ Adobe Books, San Francisco January 23, 2014.
2013
“Memory of the Good War,” American Studies Association conference, November 2013,
Washington, D.C.
“The Architecture of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair,” May 10, 2013, American
Studies Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley.
“The Everyday Life of Memorials,” University of Oregon. Invited lecture, April 15, 2013
“Meet the New Urbanism (Same as the Old Urbanism),” University of Oregon. Invited
lecture, April 16, 2013.
“Hue and Cry: Color in Contemporary Architecture,” Society of Architectural Historians
annual meeting, April 11, 2013. Session Co-chair.
2012
“Into the Pacific Void: Architecture and Treasure Island,” Mills College, September 5,
2012.
“Modernism at the Beaux-Arts Ball: the Architecture of the San Francisco World's Fair
of 1939,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 25, 2012.
“The San Francisco Fair of 1939,” for the Multi-campus Research Group in California
Architecture and Design, U.C. Davis, March 10, 2012.
“The Everyday Life of Memorials,” invited lecture, U. of St. Thomas, Mar. 28, 2012
2011
“Meet Me at the Plague Column: Memorials and Conservation Planning,” delivered at
Form and Content: A Symposium on Cultural Property,” Colgate University, Apr. 1, 2011.
2010
Spaces of History Symposium, Berkeley, April 30, Respondant
“American Architecture and Abstraction at Mid-Century,” Stanford University, invited
lecture, Department of Art and Art History, May 21
“On the Fringes of the Memory Industry,” Townsend Center Working Group in
Contemporary Art, Berkeley, April 7
“Recent Research,” Invited talk to the Arts Research Council, U.C. Berkeley, March 2
2009
“Meet Me at the Plague Column: Memorials and Urbanism in Postwar Europe,” Society
for American City and Regional Planning History, Oakland, October 2009
“Otto Neurath and American Architecture,” delivered at Otto Neurath, Social
Democracy, and the New Deal, June 23, 2009, Center for Architecture, New York
City.
“194X,” Department of Architecture Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley. Feb. 11, 2009
“194X.” Reading from my book for the Architectural Research Colloquium, U.C.
Berkeley, March 18, 2009.
Reading from 194X at Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA
Reading from 194X at Builders Booksource, Berkeley, CA
2008
“Short-Term Memorials,” at the opening of “Fatal Design,” an exhibition I co-curated
for the Environmental Design Archives, Berkeley.
“Around the World in a War: Walter Gropius, London, and the American City,” at the
Fourth Biannual International Consortium Conference, Berkeley, June 20, 2008.
“Louis Kahn’s Visions of the Future during World War II.” Invited lecture at the Facoltà
di Architettura “Aldo Rossi,” Cesena, Italy, May 15, 2008.
“Louis Kahn e la visione del futuro.” Invited Lecture by Architettura Modernita e
Scienze, April 5, 2008, Genoa
“Memory after the Modern.” Invited lecture at the Scuola Superiore di
Studi Umanistici, Bologna, in the lecture series “Città immaginata e città reale:
Percorsi nella memoriae nelle pratiche urbane,” April 2, 2008.
“The Sublime Jackass.” Invited lecture at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo,
University of Bologna, March 31, 2008.
“Louis I. Kahn, in the Realm of Planning.” Invited lecture at the Faculty of Engineering,
University of Ghent, March 3, 2008.
“The Memory Industry and Its Discontents” Invited lecture for (CLUE) Research
Institute for the Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban
Environment,” Free University, Amsterdam, March 6, 2008.
2007
“Representing Cities at Mid-Century,” Delivered at “Pasts, Presents, Futures: 125 Years
of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University,” December 8, 2007. I was chosen as one of seven alumni speakers to represent the field.
“Memorials No More: Destruction, Desecration, Iconoclasm, Neglect,” Session Chair at the Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, April 2007.
“The Future of Memory,” at the Spatial Recall: The Place of Memory in Architecture and Landscape, Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, March 2007.
“The Memory Industry,” Keynote speech at the Art History Graduate Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona, February 2007.
“Peter Eisenman Slept Here: The Memory Industry and Its Discontents,” Invited lecture at the Collins/Kauffman lecture series, Columbia University, February 13, 2007.
2006
“Abstraction and Planning: The Visuality of Urban Planning at Mid-Century in the United States,” at Beyond Mimesis: Representation in Art and Science, London, June, 2006.