Eve Blau

Historian

Contact Information
Phone:(617) 495-0170
E-Mail: eblau@gsd.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Blau is an adjunct professor of the history of architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, where she teaches courses in the core history sequence and on topics in modern architecture, including Transparency and Modernity and the Proseminar in History, Theory, and Urban Studies. Her research focuses on modernity, the city, and issues of representation. Her publications include Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice (2007), The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919–1934 (1999), Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890–1937 (1999), and Urban Form: Städtebau in der postfordistischen Gesellschaft (2003). She edited Architectural History 1999/2000: A Special Issue of JSAH (1999) and has received a number of awards for her publications, including the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, the Austrian Cultural Institute Book Prize, the Spiro Kostof Book Award, and the AIA Citation for Excellence in International Architectural Book Publishing. Her current projects include an edited volume on Architecture in the Time of the Vietnam War: Politics, Protest, and Pedagogy. Blau is co-chair of the Urbanism and Architecture in Modern Europe Study Group.