The Primitive Origins of Modern Architecture:

M. Christine Boyer
is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. She is the author of CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments (MIT Press, 1994), Dreaming the Rational City: the myth of city planning 1890-1945 (MIT Press, 1983), and Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1890 (Rizzoli, 1985). In addition, she has written many articles and lectured widely on the topic of urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently writing a book on Le Corbusier’s writings entitled Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettre; a series of collected essay entitled Twice-Told Stories: City and Cinema; and a series of essays on contemporary urbanism entitled Back to the Future: The City of To-tomorrow.

M. Christine Boyer received her Ph.D. and Masters in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania,The Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS

BOOKS

CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996)

The City of Collective Memory: its historical imagery and architectural entertainments (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994)

Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850 1900 (New York: Rizzoli, 1985)

Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983)

CURRENT ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEWS AND RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS

"X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive? " in Gary Bridges and Sophie Watson (eds.) A Companion to the City Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell Pub. Ltd., 2000): 430-437.

"The Digital Divide and the Matrix of Cyberspace,” in Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy 2 (Istanbul: World Academy for Local Government and Democracy, 1999): 39-46.

"Crossing CyberCities: Urban Regions and the Cyberspace Matrix,” in Robert A. Beauregard and Sophie Body-Gendrot (eds.) The Urban Moment (Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publication, Inc. 1999): 51 -78.

"Playgrounds,” in Gabriela Seifert and Götz Stöckmann Catalogue for Living Room (London: AA Publications, 1999).

"Crimenes en y contra la Diudad: La Femme Fatale como Alegoria Urbana," FISURAS 6 (June, 1998): 126-157.

"X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive," Daidalos (June, 1998):

"Victor Burgin In/Different Spaces" Parallax 5 ((September, 1997): 197-205.

Im virtuellen Raum verschwindet das Gedächtnis der Stadt" in von Christa Maar und Florian Rötzer (eds.) Virtual Cities (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1997):162 - 175.

"Twice-Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times Square," Surface 1 (Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA, 1997): 140-155,.

"Labyrinths of the Mind and the City," in Peter Droege (ed.) Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997): 518-538..

"The City and its Theatrical Representations," A Star is Born: Groningen Holland (Amsterdam: 1997).

"The New York Panorama: A Paradoxical View," City Speculation (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997).