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Patrick Haughey

Architectural history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., history, theory and criticism of architecture and art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.Arch., architecture, University of Washington
  • B.S., landscape architecture, University of California, Davis

Credentials

  • Professor of architectural history, 2011–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Lecturer, Department of Architecture, 2009–2011, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  • Adjunct professor/visiting assistant professor, Department of Architecture, 2008–2011, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
  • Adjunct professor, Department of Fine Arts, 2007–2008, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • Adjunct professor, Department of Art and Art History, 2007–2008, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Global Architecture History and Teaching Collaborative Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning, 2017–2019
  • Global Architecture History and Teaching Collaborative Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning, 2015–2016
  • Co-recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities, Society of Architectural Historians Grant, 2013
  • Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013
  • Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award, Northeastern University, 2011
  • Royal Fellowship Dissertation Research Award, 2006
  • Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association Research Grant, 2005
  • Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Grant, 2005
  • George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Grant, 2004
  • Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001–2006

Organizations

  • Global Architecture History and Teaching Collaborative
  • Society of Architectural Historians
  • Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture
  • American Association of Geographers
  • Georgia Historical Society
  • National Parks Foundation
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • World Economics Association
  • Southwest Archaeology

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Caulked: Details, Style and the Aesthetics of Impermanence in 21st Century Design," Dialectic VI: Craft, 2018.
  • "Legacies of Colonialism: Towards an Architectural History of Capitalism," A History of the Architecture of Trade, Routledge, 2018.
  • "The Politics of Architecture and History in the Anthropocene" Across Space and Time: The Politics of Architecture in Modernity, Transaction Press (now Taylor and Francis), 2017.
  • Buildings of Savannah, Society of Architectural Historians (Buildings of the United States series), University of Virginia Press, 2016.
  • "The Aesthetics of Negligence: Architecture in the Age of Inequality," Dialectic I: Architecture Between Boom and Bust, 2014.
  • "Leveraged Urbanism," Manifest: Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism, Issue 1, Oct. 2013.
  • "The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace," The Public Historian, Vol. 32, No. 4, Nov. 2010, 160–168.
  • Editor, "Concerto Barocco: Essays in Honor of Henry A. Millon," Thresholds 28, 2005.
  • "Bernini's Medusa and a History of Art," Thresholds 28, 2005.

Presentations

  • "Architectures of the Slave Economy," panel, Society of Architectural Historians Conference, St. Paul, Minn., April 2018
  • "Spatial Politics: Conflicts of Preservation and Urbanism," American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, April 2017
  • "Savannah Squares: Lost and Found," School of Building Arts, SCAD, with the Savannah Municipal Archives, Cluskey Vaults, Savannah, Ga., 2016
  • "Global Savannah: An Economic History, 1733 to Present," Sponsored by the Society of Architecture Historians and National Endowment of the Arts, SCAD Museum, 2016
  • "Cartel Urbanism: Finance and the Architecture of Displacement," Conflict Environments and Urban Frames panel, The Worlds of Violence sessions, 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Naxos, Sicily, 2015
  • Co-director with Robin Williams, "The Architecture of Trade," 9th Savannah Symposium, 2015
  • "Architectures of the Slave Economy," lecture sponsored by Global Architecture History and Teaching Collaborative, the History, Theory and Criticism Department, and the AKPIA Aga Khan Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2015.
  • "Puebloan Building Cultures and Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau: 1000 CE to Present," School of Building Arts Lecture Series, SCAD Museum, 2014
  • "Waterworks: A Savannah History," SCAD Department of Architectural History and Graphic Design and the Municipal Archives of Savannah, March 2014.
  • "Human Displacement and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo," Interactive Graces: Art, Enlightenment and the City, Department of Art History Symposium, SCAD Museum, Savannah, 2013.
  • "China and Urbanization: Demographics, Energy and the Environment," guest lecture for Dr. Robert Cowherd's Asian Cities seminar, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, June 2013.
  • "The Port of Georgia: The Historic City and the Landscape Economy," Port Cityscapes session of the American Association of Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, April 2013.
  • "From the River," exhibition with graduate students in the departments of architectural history, furniture, photography, and historic preservation, SCAD School of Building Arts Graduate Student Exhibition, The Collaborative Learning Center, Savannah, Ga., March 2013.
  • "Modernities Across Time and Space" (co-director), 8th Savannah Symposium, with keynote speakers Mark Jarzombek and Dell Upton, Feb. 2013.
  • "After City Market: Food Deserts in the Historic City of Savannah," Food, the City, and Innovation Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Feb. 2013.
  • "The Cost of Urbanism: The Real Bilbao Effect and other Myths of Avant-Gardism in the City," guest lecture, Urban Design Graduate School, Savannah College of Art and Design, Oct. 2012.
  • "70,000 years of Human Habitation," SCAD Spring Faculty Lecture Series, Lacoste, France, 2012