Mitchell Schwarzer
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Mitchell Schwarzer is an architectural historian who writes on the urban and suburban built environment with attention to issues of mobility, perceptual psychology, media, consumerism, and memory. He is Professor of Architectural History and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at California College of the Arts.
Schwarzer received his BA from Washington University, his Masters in City Planning from Harvard University, and his PhD, in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His writings have appeared in numerous edited books, including: Architourism (2005); Chicago Architecture (2005); Sprawl and Suburbia (2005); Shaping the City (2004); Monument and Memory (2003); Architecture and Film (2000); Autonomy and Ideology (1997); Schopenhauer: Philosophy and the Arts (1996); and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1994). They have also been published in many magazines and journals, including: ArcCA, Arcade, Architecture Boston, Art Bulletin, Art History, Art Journal, Assemblage, California Homes, Design Issues, Dwell, Harvard Design Magazine, Historic Preservation Forum, Log, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Urban Design, Nineteenth Century Contexts, Places, and Thresholds. He edited an issue of ANY Magazine entitled “Tectonics Unbound” (1996).
He was a participant at the Televisuality Symposium at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on April 11, 2008.
[edit] Publications
- Home Egonomics: America's Obsession with Real Estate (Houghton Mifflin Company, forthcoming)
- Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area: History and Guide (William Stout Publishers, 2007)
- Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004)
- Architecture and Design: SF (Understanding Business, 1998); and German Architectural Theory and the Search for Modern Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
