WRITING
“What Has Been Lost at the Barnes“, The Avery Review no. 44, December 2019
“La Pyramide du Louvre: l’oeuvre et son impact architectural sur la création artistique” Conference on the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of the Grand Louvre project, Auditorium du Louvre, March 2019
“Haussmann writ small: I. M. Pei’s Grand Louvre as an Exercise in 19th Urbanism”, book of published proceedings of the symposium “Le Louvre: Un Lieu, Des Territoires”, ed. Louvre et la Sorbonne, Winter 2019
Fifteen Essays in “L’Histoire du Louvre”, 3 volumes, Editions Fayard, Musee du Louvre, September 2016
“Past Preserving“Urban Omnibus Forum, June 19, 2015
“The Tragic Poetry of Building Codes“Urban Omnibus Forum, March 11, 2015
“The Privatization of Prospect“Urban Omnibus Forum, December 3, 2014
“Facadism: On the Demolition of the American Folk Art Museum“The Avery Review, no. 2, October 2014
“A.F.A.M.MoMA“MoMA, Folk Art & Curating Modernism The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2014
“The Future of Cultural Design”Tomorrow’s Project by Hunter Douglas Contract, December, 2010
“On Bias in Criticism”Urban Omnibus, January 29, 2010
“New Strategies for Museums: Assets, Audiences and Alliances”DMD Whitepaper Series, December 2009
“MoMA’s Minimalist Baroque”Praxis, no. 7, Spring 2005
“La Construzione della MoMA”
Casabella, no. 728-729, December 2004
“On Architecture and Capitalism”
Entry in compendium, Praxis, no. 5, 2003
Interview
Connaissance des Arts, no. 500, 11-1993
“L’Aile Richelieu”
Formes et Structures, no. 4, 1993
“Transparent Contradictions”Society of Architectural Historians Convention, Boston, 1990
Interview
Connaissance des Arts, no. 444, 2 – 1989
LECTURES
“Haussmann writ small: I.M. Pei’s Grand Louvre as an exercise in 19th c. Urbanism” in Symposium Le Louvre: Un Lieu, Des Territoires, Sorbonne & Louvre, Paris, December 2016
“On the Vernacular in Architecture” Opening Remarks in Symposium Crisis of Place, New York Folklore Society, April 2016
“Conserving the Container: the Museum as Museological Object” in Symposium Extreme Curation, Bard Graduate Center, March 2015
“Analyzing Labrouste Projectively” Introduction and Presentation, Chair of Session, “Learning from and with Labrouste” in Symposium: Revisiting Henri Labrouste in the Digital Age
MoMA, March 2013 in association with the exhibit: “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light”
“Fail Better – (re) making the MoMA”
University of Illinois, Chicago, Dept. of Art History, Invitational Lecture Series, April 2010
“New Strategies for Museums”
MAAM ‘Building Museums’ Conference, New York, March 2010
“Re: rereading, rewriting” – (Powerpoint)
Lecture in Student Invitational Series at the Cooper Union of New York, November 2009
“Le musée comme projet urbain”
Symposium: “Vingt ans après le Grand Louvre”, Musée – musées, Louvre, Paris, April 2009
“Daylighting and the emergence of modern gallery design” Cooper Union, N.Y., March 2008
Feltman Seminars: 9 lectures on the history, phenomenology and uses of light in architecture,
Chair of Great Hall Invited Lectures, Cooper Union, N.Y., 2 series, Spring 2006, 2007
“Innovation in Museum Design”
Symposium sponsored by Experientia, Torino, Italy, July 2006
“Light : Gallery” Richard Kelly Symposium, AIA, N.Y., June 2006
“Daylighting at MoMA and the Louvre”
Greenbuild Conference, Atlanta, November 2005
“The Mall and the Mile – Museums in American Urban Development” Symposium: ‘Le Musée et la Ville’, organized by J-L. Cohen, Paris, December 2000
“The New Painting Galleries in the Aile Richelieu” International Conference on Gallery Lighting, Paris. April 1994
“Une Architecture d’Evocation” Khorsabad Symposium, Musée du Louvre, Paris. November 1993
The Richelieu Wing and Museographic Work at the Louvre” AIA Convention, Washington D.C., 1992
“Transparent Contradictions” Society of Architectural Historians Convention, Boston, 1990
WEBLINKS
“Conserving the Container: the Museum as Museological Object” in Symposium Extreme Curation, Bard Graduate Center, March 2015
A Conversation on the Museum of Modern Art’s Plan for Expansion
Architectural League of NY Roundtable,January 28, 2014 [1:02:10 — 1:22:20]