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Visiting Lecturer
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department
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Architecture
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102 Rand Hall
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(607) 255-7138
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email
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bh98@cornell.edu
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Economist and AI pioneer Herbert Simon described design as the transformation of an existing situation to a preferred one, a process offering no single correct solution or even definitive criteria for evaluation. In this sense, problems of design – matching means to ends, proposing synthetic solutions to complex multivalent problems, forecasting future scenarios – have loomed large in the 20th century, and not only in the design fields strictly-defined. Architecture, as both a cultural and technical practice, is uniquely positioned to engage and reflect upon the place of design in culture, a situation I hope to address in both seminar and studio.
education
- B.A., Valparaiso University
- M.Arch, Rice University
- M.A., Princeton University
work
Architecture, graphic design, and industrial design, with firms and individuals including Bruce Mau Design, Roy Design, and sculptor Glen Seator.
publications
- “Pandemonium: The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Post War World”, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000.
- “Industrial Design and the Modern Chair”, forthcoming.
- “Planning Theory’s Interiors: Office Landscaping and Architectural Theory in the 70s”, forthcoming.
- “Ambient Organization” in Log, New York, Spring/Summer 2005, 65-69.
- Cockpit in Beatriz Colomina, AnnMarie Brennan and Jeannie Kim eds., “Cold War Hot Houses: Inventing Postwar Culture, from Cockpit to Playboy”, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, November 2004, 22-54.
- “Design Models, Network Practices: UN Studio’s Brand of Radical Optimism” in Design Document Series 07: Love It. Live It, Seoul, Korea, March 2004, 110-15.
- “Games, Mapping, and Mediation” in Mike Silver and Diane Balmori, eds., “Mapping in the Age of Digital Media: The Yale Symposium”, London: Wiley and Co. Academy Editions, 2003, 18-25.
- Dossier, co-edited with Sanford Kwinter, in Rem Koolhass, Stefano Boeri, and Sanford Kwinter, “Mutations” Barcalona: Actar, 2001, 628-49.
courses
- ARCH 338-638: Special Topics in the Theory of Architecture: “Ambient Organization”
- ARCH 338-638: Special Topics in the Theory of Architecture: “Systems and Architectures of the Postwar Era”
- ARCH 458/658: Special Invesitigations in Visual Representation: “Image, Graphics, Text”
- ARCH 513-516: 4th/5th Year Studio
- ARCH 701-702: M.Arch II Studio
research
- 20th century architecture and design
- History of technology and organizational theory
- Offices and office furniture and equipment
- Computer design and new media
associations
- Co-director of the Responsive Systems Group
