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David Smiley
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies
Trained as an architect and as an architectural historian, David Smiley is currently working on Pedestrian Modern, a study of the relations of architectural practice, urban planning, and shopping centers. Previous research and publication topics include the design of the mid-century single-family house and suburban shopping centers and malls. He is especially interested in the construction of architectural culture: the ways in which magazines, museums, architecture schools, and professional associations continually shape and reshape the course of modern architecture.
Smiley has published on contemporary urban and suburban issues, examining large-scale urban interventions, the re-use of shopping malls and the recent history of urban planning and urban design. From 1999 until 2004, he was research director of Design+Urbanism, an urban design firm that completed studies and plans for neighborhoods internationally as well as for New York City and the greater metropolitan area. In 2002, he edited a study for the re-use of "dead malls" for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Professor Smiley has taught at Yale University School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, and Texas A & M University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. He is a licensed architect in New York State.
Selected Publications
"History of the Victor: Victor Gruen in Context," Journal of Architectural Education 62 (September, 2008).
"Suburban Disciplines," Journal of Urban History (Fall 2008, forthcoming)
"History of the Victor: Varieties of Shopping, 1955," Lotus Magazine (Milan, 2003)
Redressing the Mall: Sprawl and Public Space in Suburbia (Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 2002)
"Making the Modified Modern: Architecture and the Single Family House, ca. 1950," Perspecta 32 (Spring 2001)
Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Report to the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association and the Design Trust for Public Space, co-author (2000)
"Suburbs-R-Us," in The Dense-City: After the Sprawl (Milan: Lotus Documents, 1999)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Vassar College
M. Arch. and M.S. Historic Preservation, Columbia University
Ph.D., Princeton University
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Architecture
Architectural and urban history
Urban design