Mary Louise Lobsinger is a Toronto-based architectural historian, artist, and architect. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches the history and theory of architecture and design.[1]
Mary Louise Lobsinger | |
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 Lobsinger speaking with students after a graduate review at the University of Toronto | |
| Born | Canada |
| Education | PhD, MDes Harvard University, B.Arch University of Waterloo, B.A. Fine Arts University of Guelph |
| Occupation | Architectural Historian |
| Known for | Architectural history, architectural theory |
Education and academic career
editShe holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph (1976-1980), a B.Arch from the University of Waterloo (1982-1989), an M.DeS from Harvard University (1994-1995), and a PhD from Harvard University (1995-2003). She has taught at design schools in Canada, the United States, and in Europe, most notably at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Toronto.[2]
Lobsinger's creative practice includes text-based visual works and the production of environments for multi-disciplinary experiments between theory and praxis.
Publications and awards
editShe has written extensively on the histories and theories of modern architecture and urbanism. Her research centers around issues of historiography, science, technology, and techniques of articulation. Her research on Cedric Price and cybernetics has had a significant impact and has been published widely.[3][4] She has also made important contributions to the topic of post-war Italian architecture and written extensively about the work of Aldo Rossi.[5][6][7] In 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and presented her research titled "The Fortune of Aldo Rossi within Critical Architectural Discourse in the 1970s."[8] She has held fellowships and received awards from the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Graham Foundation,[9] the Social Science and Research Council, ACSA/JAE/AIA,[10] the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Design Council, the Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
References
edit- ^ "Mary Louise Lobsinger". Daniels. 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ^ "Urban Loculi and the Logistics of the Dead". Daniels. 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ^ Lobsinger, Mary Louise (2009-10-01). "Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics". The Journal of Architecture. 14 (5): 639–642. doi:10.1080/13602360903187527. ISSN 1360-2365. S2CID 143441577.
- ^ Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2020. pp. 236–256. doi:10.2307/j.ctvzxxb75. ISBN 978-0-8229-4601-4. JSTOR j.ctvzxxb75. S2CID 241749599.
- ^ Lobsinger, Mary Louise (2002). "That Obscure Object of Desire: Autobiography and Repetition in the Work of Aldo Rossi". Grey Room (8): 39–61. ISSN 1526-3819. JSTOR 1262607.
- ^ Lobsinger, Mary Louise (2006). "The New Urban Scale in Italy". Journal of Architectural Education. 59 (3): 28–38. doi:10.1111/j.1531-314X.2006.00031.x. ISSN 1531-314X. S2CID 143116550.
- ^ Lobsinger, Mary Louise (2003). Antinomies of Realism in Postwar Italian Architecture: A Thesis. Harvard University.
- ^ Architecture (CCA), Canadian Centre for. "Visiting Scholar Seminar: Mary Louise Lobsinger". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Canadian Centre for Architecture". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ^ "Prof. Mary Lou Lobsinger receives ACSA/JAE/AIA award". Daniels. 2007-01-10. Retrieved 2019-02-08.