Reinhold Martin
Reinhold Martin (born 1964) is an American architectural historian and professor. He currently serves as Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directed the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is also a member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia.
Reinhold Martin
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- Name
- Reinhold Martin
- Born
- 1964
- Education
- Princeton University
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- architect
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Reinhold Martin (born 1964) is an American architectural historian and professor. He currently serves as Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directed the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is also a member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia.
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Until 2008, Martin was a partner in the architectural firm Martin/Baxi Architects with Kadambari Baxi.
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As a part of the semester's inaugural 6on6, the Buell Center's Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler mark the launch of the Center's most recent publication in conversation with students and faculty. Jacob Moore, Program Coordinator, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Galia Solomonoff, Associate Professor of Professional Practice Susanne Schindler, Adjun
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• Name — Reinhold Martin • Born — 1964 • Education — Princeton University • Notable Works — Utopia's Ghost (2010) The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (2017)
Education
Education
He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Graduate Diploma from the Architectural Association. In 1999 Martin received his Ph.D from the Princeton University School of Architecture. His dissertation was entitled Architecture and Organization, USA c. 1956.
Publications
• The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. • Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. • Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. • The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. • (with Kadambari Baxi) Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries. Barcelona: Actar, 2007. • (with Kadambari Baxi) Entropia. London: Black Dog Pub, 2000 • (with Kadambari Baxi) Propositions. London: Black Dog Pub, 1993. • (with Jacob Moore and Susanne Schindler) The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate: A Provisional Report. New York: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, 2015. • (edited, with Barry Bergdoll) Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream. New York, N.Y: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. In 2000 Martin founded the journal Grey Room together with Branden Joseph and Felicity Scott.
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- 4.Kadambari Baxi, Architecture + Media Projects.
- 5.Reinhold Martin — IKKM Weimar. ikkm-weimar.de.
- 6.Room, Grey. Grey Room On "About Grey Room" by The Editors. www.greyroom.org.
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