Eve Blau

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Eve Blau
OccupationHistorian
Educator
Spouse(s)Peter Rose
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of York
Yale University
ThesisThe Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861 (1978)
Doctoral advisorGeorge L. Hersey
Other academic advisorsVincent Scully
Academic work
InstitutionsWesleyan University
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Harvard University

Eve Blau is an American historian and educator, who teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University as Adjunct Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, as well as Director of Research. Blau has contributed to scholarship on the history of architecture and urban design.[1] In 2018, she was named Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Early life and education[]

She was raised in Germany and Switzerland. Her parents were from Vienna, and her mother was of Czech descent.[2]

Blau attended the University of York and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Sociology. Her postgraduate studies in the History of Architecture took her to Yale University. There, Blau was awarded a Master of Arts in 1974 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978.[3]

Career[]

Blau began her teaching career in the Art and Art History Department at Wesleyan University. She was the Head of the Department of Exhibitions and Publications (1984-1991) then Curator of Exhibitions and Publications (1991-2001) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

She was a Professor of the History of Architecture (2004-2011) in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, while Toshiko Mori was chair. Blau served as Director of the Master in Architecture Degree Programs (2008-2011). She has been part of the school's Department of Urban Planning and Design as Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design. In 2019, Blau was appointed as Director of Research by Mohsen Mostafavi.

Blau has held visiting professorships at McGill University (1983), Williams College (1995), and the University at Buffalo (2016).

From 1997-2000, Blau served as the Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.[4]

Blau's research has focused extensively on a range of issues in architectural history and theory, specifically in Europe and Eurasia, as well as the intersection of urban spatial form and media. Her publications have covered topics such as Red Vienna in Austria and the petroleum industry in Azerbaijan.

Photography[]

Photographs attributed to Blau appear in the collection of the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Images captured includes religious and secular buildings, sculptures, and various communities.[5] A linked exhibition of her work ran there from October 2017 to March 2018, which highlighted the architectural importance of the Greystone buildings in Montreal.[6]

Works[]

  • The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1999, ISBN 978-0262535687
  • Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice, with Ivan Rupnik, 2007, ISBN 978-8496540576
  • Architecture and Cubism, with Nancy Troy, 2012, ISBN 978-0262523288
  • Baku: Oil and Urbanism, 2018, ISBN 978-3038600763

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Eve Blau". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  2. ^ Jr, Miloslav Rechcigl (2019-09-16). Notable American Women with Czechoslovak Roots: A Bibliography, Bio-Bibliographies, Historiography and Genealogy. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-7283-2139-4.
  3. ^ "Eve Blau Awarded Victor Adler State Prize of the Republic of Austria | Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences". gsas.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  4. ^ "Eve Blau". Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  5. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. ^ Architecture (CCA), Canadian Centre for. "Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  7. ^ "Search Results". www.sah.org. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
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