Barnard CollegeColumbia University

David Smiley

Assistant Professor, Architecture & Urban Studies

Address
320M Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: (212) 854-8001
E-mail: ds210@columbia.edu

Office Hours
Office Hours: by appointment (on leave 2008-2009)

Courses
ARCH 3114: Making the Metropolis: Designing and Planning the City since 1850
URBS V3992-3x,y Senior Seminar in Urban Studies: The Built Environment

Education

Ph.D., Architectural History and Theory, Princeton University, 2007.
M. Arch., Columbia University, 1986.
M.S., Historic Preservation,Columbia University, 1986.
B.A., Anthropology/Archaeology with Departmental Honors,Vassar College; 1980.

Publications

Books

Redressing the Mall: Sprawl and Public Space in Suburbia, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2002 [Editor].

Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association and the Design Trust for Public Space, NY, Fall, 2001 [Writer, co-editor].

Review Essays

"History of the Victor: Victor Gruen in Context," Journal of Architectural Education 62 (September, 2008).

"Suburban Disciplines," Journal of Urban History [forthcoming, Fall, 2008].

Book Review, Gregory C. Randall, America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, College Art Association Reviews, February, 2001.

Miscellaneous Publications

"That Victor Might Rule: On Gruen," Urban Design Review, Forum for Urban Design, New York, Spring, 2007.

"Making the Modified Modern," (2001) reprinted in Barbara Miller Lane, ed., Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture (Routledge, 2006).

"History of the Victor: Varieties of Shopping, 1955," Lotus 118 (Milan) September, 2003.

"A Rock and a Hard Place," Architectural League Exhibit: "Urban Life: Housing in the Contemporary City," September, 2003.

"A Tale of Two Conferences: Urban Design and Urban Discourse in the mid-20th Century," excerpt, "Urban Design Now," Van Alen Report, Van Alen Institute, NY, April 2002.

"Making the Modified Modern: Architecture and the Single Family House, ca. 1950," Perspecta 32 (Spring, 2001).

"Suburbs-R-Us," in The Dense-City: After the Sprawl, Lotus Documents (Milan) 1999.

"Sprawl: Towards a History of Hyperspace," Introduction to Sprawl, exhibit catalog, Chastaine Arts Center (Atlanta) January, 1995.

Lectures

"A Tale of Two Conferences: Urban Design and Urban Discourse in the mid-20th Century," paper for Urban Design: Premises, Pedagogies, and Practices, Conference, Columbia University, April 5 and 6, 2002 (publication forthcoming)

"Shopping for Discourse: The Architectural Periodical and the Shopping Center, 1950." paper presented at College Art Association annual meeting, February 2002.

Moderator, "New Urbanisms" Symposium, sponsored by the Urban Design Program of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Van Alen Institute, February 2001.

"Dispersed Cities: A Footnote in the History of the Shopping Center," Paper delivered to the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, June, 2000.

"Post-war American Urban and Suburban Landscapes," Three Lectures, School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, November, 1999.

"Theory OR Practice?: Comments on the Boyer Report," American Institute of Architects, Long Island (NY) Chapter, January, 1998.

"Suburban Critiques: Mass Culture and the Representation of American Post-War Suburbs," paper delivered to the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, October, 1997.

"The Shopping Malls of Central New Jersey," Lecture & Tour for "Images of America Program," Princeton University U. S. Studies Institute for Foreign Policy Officials, August, 1997.

"Double Jeopardy: Critiques of Mass Culture and Critiques of American Post-War Suburbs," paper delivered to the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April, 1997.

"Space and the Discipline: A Retroactive Review of Rem Koolhaas' Delirious New York," in History/Post-history, Proceedings of the 1992 American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Southeast Region Annual Conference (Savannah) November, 1992.

Professional Experience

New York State Architectural Registration

Research Director, Design + Urbanism, LLC., 1999 to 2004

Kogod & Smiley Architects, 1992 to the present