The Primitive Origins of Modern Architecture:
Lecture by M. Christine Boyer
VortragM. 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).