January 7, 2009

The Department of Architecture is pleased to announce that both Margaret Crawford and Greg Castillo have accepted our offers for faculty positions in architectural history and both will be here in Fall 2009.

Margaret Crawford is currently at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, as a professor of urban design and planning theory. She teaches courses in the history and theory of urban development, planning, and design. Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. Her book, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, examines the rise and fall of professionally designed industrial environments. She edited The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment. Her recent book Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta was published in early 2006 and co-edited by Alan Berger. Before the GSD, Margaret Crawford was chair of the History, Theory and Humanities Program at the Southern California Institute for Architecture. She has also taught at the University of Southern California, the University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Florence, Italy. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a Graduate Diploma from the Architectural Association, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA.

Greg Castillo is currently a senior lecturer in architectural history and theory in the faculty of architecture at the University of Sidney, Australia. Castillo is one of the most recognized historians of German modern architecture. He has published numerous articles and book chapters and he has authored one major book currently in press: Cold War at the Home Front: Mid Century Design in the Service of Cultural Revolution, which will be published in 2009 by the University of Minnesota Press. He is also the collaborating author on two major architectural and urban form textbooks: the second edition of A History of Architecture, with Spiro Kostof, and The City Assembled, also with Spiro Kostof. Prior to his current appointment, Greg Castillo taught at Rice University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2006. Castillo holds a B.F.A. in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1975); an M.A. in communications management from the University of Southern California (1978); and an M.Arch. and a Ph.D. in the history of architecture, both from UC Berkeley.