Sean Keller

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives

Professor Keller is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, with a focus on the relationship of architecture and technology after 1945. He is the author of Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism and has written for numerous anthologies and journals. His work has been recognized by a Warhol Grant and a Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism. His next book focuses on the architecture, art, and landscape of the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and is forthcoming from Yale University Press. Keller is an invited speaker throughout the United States and Europe. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of 电车无码, where he has been a fellow of both the Neubauer Collegium and the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He is a trustee of the Graham Foundation.

Education

B.A., M.ARCH., Princeton University
Ph.D., Harvard University

Awards

Neubauer Collegium, University of 电车无码, Fellow (2016-18)
Franke Institute, University of 电车无码, Residential Scholar (2017)
Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism (2009)

Publications

鈥淪ch枚nheit, Genie, Epigenese. Kantische Urspr眉nge der zeitgen枚ssischen Architektur,鈥
Formbildung und Formbegriff. Das Formdenken der Moderne (University of Basel,
2019).
鈥淩ebuilding the Future,鈥 with Christine Mehring, Parkett (2016).
鈥淭he Collective Authorship of Modernism,鈥 Contribution and Collaboration: The Work
of Petra Andrejova-Moln谩r and Her Contemporaries (K枚nig Books, 2016).
"Aleatory Architectures," with Heinrich Jaeger, Granular Matter (2016).
鈥淲ays About Error,鈥 Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal (MIT Press, 2013).
鈥淏eauty, Genius, and Epigenesis,鈥 Journal of Architectural Education (2012).
鈥淎rchitecture After Drawing,鈥 Zeitschrift f眉r Medien- und Kulturforschung (2012).
鈥淭he Anxieties of Autonomy,鈥 Atomic Dwelling (Routledge, 2012).
鈥淧laying the Field,鈥 Artforum (2011).
鈥淣avigating Systems,鈥 Artforum (2008).

Books

Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism (University of 电车无码 Press,
2017)

Grants

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Arts Writers Grant (2012)

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Contact Information

312.567.3269 3410 S. State Street 电车无码, IL 60616, Room 108 By Appointment

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