CURRICULUM VITAE
November 2006
Greg Castillo
The University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture
148 City Road, Wilkinson Building (G04)
Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
[email protected]
Employment:
Academic:
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney: 1/2007
Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture: 1/2002- 6/2006
(Promotion to Associate Professor announced 3/2006)
Lecturer, University of Miami School of Architecture: 8/2000 - 1/2002
Graduate Student Instructor, U.C. Berkeley College of Environmental Design: 1995, 1993, 1988-89,
1984-1986
Visiting Lecturer, Rice University, Department of Architecture: 1987
Non-academic:
Blue Canyon Productions (Moscow); Consultant; pre-production research and oral history interviews for
documentary film project funded by the Soros Foundation; August 1993
Estate of Spiro Kostof; Estate Assistant; completion of Kostof manuscript (The City Assembled) for
publication, December 1991- March 1992
Professor Spiro Kostof; Personal Assistant; support for publishing projects (including collaborative
writing, research, photography); June 1986-December 1991
International Institute of Los Angeles, Research Associate; research and writing for a government-funded
report on lining conditions among the Hispanic elderly; September 1980-September 1981
Degrees:
Ph.D.
M.Arch
M.A.
B.F.A.
History of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, conferred12/2000
Architectural Design, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Communications Management, University of Southern California, 1978
Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1975
Dissertation:
“Constructing the Cold War: Architecture and the Cultural Division of Germany, 1946-1956"
Committee: Kathleen James, Chair; Yuri Slezkine, Nezar AlSayyad (7/2000)
Fellowships, Grants and Awards:
Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, University of Miami, 2005
Miami Consortium for Urban Studies, Course Development Grant, 2005
Fulbright Fellowship, German Fulbright Fund (Summer Seminar on German Visual Culture), 2004
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture “Best Scholarly Article Award,” 2004
Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Grant, 2002/3
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Service Award, 2003
Visiting Scholar Appointment, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2002
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page two
Fellowships, Grants and Awards (continued):
Ph.D. Committee Prize, Department of Architecture, U.C. Berkeley: 1999
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship: 1998/1999
Short-term Residency, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: 1998
Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship: 1997/1998
Townsend Center for the Humanities Doctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley: 1997/1998
Short-term Research Grant, Berkeley Center for Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies: Summer 1997
Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst Research Fellowship: 1996/1997
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley: 1996
Publications:
“The Bauhaus in Cold War Germany,” in Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, Kathleen
James-Chakraborty, ed., (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 171-193.
“Blueprint for a Cultural Revolution: Hermann Henselmann and the Architecture of German Socialist
Realism,” in Nylon Curtain: Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in the Cultural Life of
State-Socialist Russian and East-Central Europe, György Péteri, ed., Trondheim Studies on East
European Cultures and Societies, no. 18 (Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, 2006), 115-141; Originally published in Slavonica 11: 1 (April, 2005).
“Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Marshall Plan Germany,”
Journal of Contemporary History 40: 2 (April 2005), 261-288.
“Design Pedagogy Enters the Cold War: The Reeducation of Eleven West German Architects,” Journal
of Architectural Education 57:4 (May 2004), 10-18. Received 2004 Best Scholarly Article Award,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
“Stalinist Modern: Constructivism and the Soviet Company Town,” Architectures of Russian Identity,
1500 to the Present, James Cracraft and Dan Rowland, eds., (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2003)
131-149. Revised reprinting of “Constructivism and the Stalinist Company Town,” Urban
Design Review 2 (1996), 3-26.
“American Modernism,Triumph and Transformation:1952-1968,” in Helmut Jacoby: Master of
Architectural Drawing, Helge Bofinger and Wolfgang Voigt, eds. (Wasmuth/Deutsches
Architektur-Museum, 2001) 34-45. Chinese translation, Dailan University of Technology Press,
2003.
“New Urbanism’s Latin Connection: Interview with Andres Duany,” Architecture and Urbanism in las
Americas (Aula) 3 (2002), 82-89.
“The Battle of the International Styles in Postwar Berlin,”Centropa 1:2 (May 2001), 84-93.
“Building Culture in East and West Berlin: Two Cold War Globalization Projects,” Hybrid Urbanism:
On Identity and Tradition in the Built Environment, Nezar Alsayyad, ed. (London: Praeger,
2000) 181-205.
“Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and Built Tradition,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements
Review, 8:2 (Spring 1997), 32-47.
“Peoples at an Exhibition: Soviet Architecture and the National Question,” Socialist Realism Without
Shores, Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997),
91-119. Revised reprinting of an article of the same title, South Atlantic Quarterly, 94:3
(Summer 1995), 715-746.
“Classicism for the Masses: Books on Stalinist Architecture,” Design Book Review 34/35 (Winter/Spring
995), 78-88.
“Gorky Street and the Design of the Stalin Revolution,” in Zenep Çelik, Diane Favro and Richard
Ingersoll, eds., Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1994), 57-70.
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page three
Publications, (continued):
“Thermonuclear Family Values: Cold War Architecture,” Design Book Review 27 (Winter 1993), 61-67.
“Cities of the Stalinist Empire,” in Nezar AlSayyad, ed., Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and
Urbanism of the Colonial Experience (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1992), 261-287.
Publications, Collaborative works:
Second author (with Cristina Mehrtens), “The Lost City of Miami,” Architecture and Urbanism in Las
Americas (Aula) 3, 2002, 82-89.
Author of second edition revisions: Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Collaborating author (with Spiro Kostof), The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through
History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1992).
Accepted for Publication:
Cold War on the Home Front: Midcentury Design in the Service of Cultural Revolution (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press), forthcoming.
“Exhibiting the Good Life: Marshall Plan Modernism in Divided Berlin,” in Cold War Modern: Art and
Design in a Divided World, 1945-1975, David Crowley and Jane Pavett, eds. Victoria & Albert
Museum, London (2008)
“Promoting Socialist Cities and Citizens: East Germany’s National Building Program,” in P.E. Swett,
S.J.Wiesen and J.R. Zatlin, eds., Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Modern
German History (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
“Fantasyland: Modernity and Artifice,” in Allan Shulman, ed. Miami: Midcentury Modern Metropolis
(New York: Thames & Hudson, forthcoming).
“The American ‘Fat Kitchen’ in Europe: Domestic Modernity and the Marshall Plan,” accepted for The
Politics of the Kitchen in the Cold War, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, eds. (Cambridge
MA: MIT Press, forthcoming).
Editorial responsibilities:
Guest co-editor of “Miami Tropical” theme issue, Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas (Aula)
No. 3; June 2002.
Conference Papers:
“Exhibiting the Good Life: ‘Fifties Domestic Design in Divided Berlin,” Victoria & Albert Museum
Symposium, “The Cold War Expo, 1945-1975,” London, 5 January 2007
“Redeeming Bourgeois Domestic Design: Socialist Realism as the West’s Salvation,” Project on Eastern
European Cultures and Societies symposium: Imagining the West, Manchester, 2 June 2006.
“Bauhaus Imaginaries: The Postwar Appropriation of Weimar-era Modernism,” for the panel
“Architects’ Architectural Histories,” Society of Architectural Historians, National Meeting,
Savannah, 27 April 2006.
“East as True West: Socialist Realist Berlin and the Preservation of Western Culture,” symposium on
Remapping the East, University of Edinburgh, 18 February 2006.
“Faulty Transmission: Americanization and the US Program of Urban Planning Training for West
German Architects, 1950,” conference on The Americanization of Postwar Architecture,
University of Toronto, 2 December 2005.
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page four
Conference Papers (continued):
“Urban Design Pedagogy Enters the Cold War,” the Society for American City and Regional Planning
History (SACRPH) conference, Miami, 21 October 2005.
“Consuming the Canon: The Survey as a History of its Users,” “Constructing Architectural History:
Canon, Text, Survey” Symposium, College of Environmental Design, University of California at
Berkeley, 4-5 March 2005.
“The American ‘Fat’ Kitchen in Postwar Germany,” for the panel “The Cold War Kitchen,” International
Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Amsterdam, October 2004.
“Exhibiting Domestic Culture in Divided Germany: Strategies of Quarantine and Cross-Fertilization,”
symposium on “Real Socialism and the Second World,” Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto, 1 May 2004.
“The Architecture of a Master Narrative: Berlin’s Socialist Realist Reconstruction,” Symposium on
Soviet Cultural Globalization, Oberlin College, March 2003.
“Modernism as Stylistic Revival in Cold War Germany,” for the panel “Revivals Revisited: History,
Memory and Visual Culture, 1789-1950,” College Art Association, National Meeting, Seattle,
February 2004.
“Domesticating the Cold War: Model Homes and Model Citizens in Postwar Europe,” Conference
on the Post-War European Home, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 12 May 2003.
“Revolutions in Cold War Domesticity,” presented at “Across the East-West Divide,” an international
workshop sponsored by the Program on East European Cultures and Societies at the Norwegian
Technical University, Trondheim, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Collegium
Budapest, Budapest, 1 February 2003.
“Importing the Soviet City and its Citizens: Berlin’s Stalinallee,” for the panel “Urban Constructs:
The Soviet City, 1930s-’60s.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, National Meeting, Pittsburg, November 2002.
“From the Marshall Plan to the Kitchen Debate: Domesticity as a Cold War Weapon.” Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) International Meeting, Havana, June 2002.
“The Other International Style: Socialist Realism and the Design of Postwar Germany.” Society of
Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture panel: “What is Socialist
Realism?” College Art Association Conference, New York City, February, 2000.
“Architecture, Soviet Modernism, and the Crucible of Stalinism,” Society of Historians of East
European and Russian Art and Architecture symposium, “Russian Modernism: Methods and
Meaning in the Post-Soviet Era,” sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian
Studies and the University of Maryland, College Park MD, April 1999.
“Building Stalin’s Germany,” Invitational workshop, “Identity and Community in a Globalizing
World,” U.C. Berkeley International and Area Studies, Sonoma, December 1998.
“Manufactured Proletariat: Constructivism and the Stalinist Company Town,” National Conference of
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: “Deconstructing Identity,” Cleveland,
March 1998.
“Building Stalin’s Germany: Architecture and Cultural Revolution,” International Conference of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Berlin, June 1997.
“Building Stalin’s Germany,” presented at the conference and workshop “Architecture and Group
Identity: Russia, 1500-Present,” Social Science Research Council, Chicago, May 1996.
“Stalinist Modern: Constructivsm Reconsidered,” National Meeting of the Society of Architectural
Historians, Seattle, April 1995.
“Peoples at an Exhibition: Soviet Architecture and the National Question,” National Meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 1994.
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page five
Conference Panels Organized and Chaired:
Conference panel organizer, “Americanization and its Discontents: Postwar US Urban Planning
Influences Abroad,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH),
National conference, Miami, 20-23 October 2005.
Symposium co-organizer (with Prof. Marc Treib, School of Architecture, University of California),
Constructing Architectural History: Canon, Text, Survey, College of Environmental Design,
University of California at Berkeley, 4-5 March 2005.
Topic Co-Chair, “Outposts of History;” Panel Co-Chair, “Outposts or Utopia?” Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Conference, Miami Beach, March 2004
Conference Paper Referee, Architectural History submissions, ACSA National Conference, March 2003.
Panel Moderator, “The Interior World of Socialism: Home Life in the Eastern Bloc, 1950s-1960s,”
National Conference of the American Association of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, November 2002.
Topic Co-Chair and Panel Moderator, “Doctoral Works-in-Progress,” ACSA International Conference,
Havana, June 2002.
Conference Paper Referee, Architectural History submissions, ACSA National Conference, March 2001.
Guest Lectures:
“Soviet Architects in the USA, 1945-1955: Learning, Transfers and the Politics of Domestic Artifacts,”
Program on East European Cultures and Societies, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, 25 November 2005.
“Contested Modernisms: Egon Eiermann, Hans Scharoun, and the Struggle to Define a Postwar German
Modernism,” Faculty of Architecture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, 24 November 2005.
“Canon, Text and Survey: Revisiting the Kostof Legacy,” keynote presentation, 2005 Spring Forum of
L’Institut de Recherche en Historie de l’Architecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture,
Montréal, 27 April 2005.
“Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Divided Germany,” Center for
Eurasian, Russian and Eastern European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC,
25 April, 2005.
“Modernisms, Reactionary and Otherwise: Negotiating the Past in Cold War Germany,” Collins/
Kaufmann Forum lecture, Department of Art History, Columbia University, 21 April 2005.
“Domesticating the Cold War: Household Design, Consumption and the Fall of the East,” Institut für
Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, University of Tübingen (Germany), 5 July 2004.
“Socialist Realism: the Other ‘International Style’ Architecture,” invitational lecture symposium on
“Soviet Cultural Globalization,” Oberlin College, 13 March 2004.
“From the Marshall Plan to the Kitchen Debate: Domesticity as a Cold War Weapon,” Brown-Bag
Lunch Lecture, European Studies Centre, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford,
England, 13 May 2003.
“Architecture as a Cold War Weapon,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, July 2002.
“Furnishing Ideology: Modernist Domestic Design in Cold War Germany.” Wolfsonian Museum,
Miami Beach, January 2001.
“Two Cold War Pilgrimages: Urban Design, Knowledge Transfer and the Cultural Division of
Germany.” Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University, March 1998.
“Soviet Orientalism: Architecture and Built Tradition” Presented at the Kennan Institute for Advanced
Russian Studies, Monday Lecture Series, Washington DC, May 1996.
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page six
Foreign Languages:
Spanish:
German:
Writing, excellent; Reading, excellent; Speaking, fluent.
Writing, good; Reading, excellent; Speaking, conversational.
Professional Associations:
College Art Association, Vernacular Architecture Forum
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Society of Architectural Historians, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
Teaching Awards Received:
Professor of the Year (student vote), University of Miami School of Architecture, 2004
Professor of the Year (student vote), University of Miami School of Architecture, 2001
Teaching specialization:
ARC 267/567, ARC 268/568 – Architectural History Survey I (Ancient to Renaissance) and II (Baroque
to Present): the required (by ACSA accreditation criteria) history course for professional degrees
in architecture.
Innovations: In order to familiarize students with the cultural and environmental diversity of
architectural history, in addition to the standard monuments of Western architecture’s canon, the
two-part course also surveys key developments in landscape architecture and urbanism; the
architecture Africa, Asia and Latin America; and vernacular constructional and compositional
traditions.
ARC 590/390 – History of Cities: graduate and upper-division survey.
Innovations: A synthesis of urban design and cultural history, this survey conveys the cultural
diversity of world urbanism by covering Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American urban form
and development in addition to the canonic history of Western urban form.
ARC 585/385 – A History of the Modern Street: graduate and upper-division seminar.
Innovations: In order to instill a fuller understanding of the street as a social and spatial frame
defining contemporary urban life, the course examines the history of modern street design (from
1850 to the present) as a fusion of architectural, landscape and decorative art traditions.
Expressions of ideal urban form are evaluated with reference to social and political outcomes.
ARC 585/385 – The City as Theater of Modernity: graduate and upper-division interdepartmental
seminar, co-taught with Prof. Robin Bachin (History), to begin Spring 2006.
Innovations: The course introduces hypotheses and debates about the nature and impact of
cultural, economic and technological modernity by discussing theoretical material in the context
of specific urban case studies. Diverse and conflicting aspects of modernity (i.e. industrialization,
class inequity and segregation, consumerism, hygiene, mobility, gentrification, urban renewal,
technocratic planning, tourism and heritage industry, globalization and migration, ecological
sustainability) are evaluated through specific urban case studies. Students are familiarized both
with grand theories and methods of interrogating them, as well as comparative urban form.
Castillo: Curriculum vitae, page seven
Teaching specialization (continued):
Arch 279/City Planning 298 -- Space as Revolution: On the Built Environments of Soviet Socialism,
a graduate-level seminar (U.C. Berkeley, Spring 1994).
Innovations: A student-initiated seminar which I organized and presented lectures in, and for
which I acquired university funding to select, schedule and host visiting speakers. The course
assembled scholars with expertise in the architecture and urbanism of specific Soviet-bloc
nations, from the USSR and China to Eastern Europe and Cuba, in order to compare, analyze and
critique the built cultures of socialism.
Thesis Advising:
Dissertation Committee member (outside), “Modern Architecture and Politics in Socialist Yugoslavia,
1948-1980,” Vladimir Kulic [[email protected]], University of Texas at Austin, in progress.
Magna Cum Laude Thesis Chairman, “Projecting Memory: A Technological Study for Future Cities,”
Jennifer Broutin, May 2005.
Magna Cum Laude Thesis Chairman, “Designing the Linear City: A Plan for the University of Miami’s
US 1 Edge,” Luis Bustamante, May 2004.
University Committees:
Chair: ARTSTOR Slide Digitizing Committee, 2004
Faculty Advisor: Miami SOA Beta Gamma Chapter, Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and
the Allied Arts, 2004
Faculty Advisor: Number (SOA Student-initiated web journal), 2003
Member: Visual Archives Committee; SOA Library Committee, 2001 to present
Community Activities:
Participant and presenter, Citizens Design Charette for Bicentennial Park, Miami, March 2001