Claire Zimmerman Assistant Professor U of M Affiliation(s) Architecture and Urban Planning PhD: Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York; M.Arch: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Note: Claire Zimmerman has been awarded a fellowship at the U-M Institute for the Humanities and will be on leave fall '09 and winter '10.

Claire Zimmerman teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth century European and American architecture, with a research emphasis on Weimar architecture culture and its visual media, and on infrastructures of globalization in modern architecture. Her published work has explored the relationship between architecture and photography in the Weimar years and since. More recent projects concern the role of images in the growth of architectural ideas in the late twentieth century, and the importance of media representation in the increasingly globalized exchange of ideas about architectural modernity. Her current book project explores these interests in a study of photography in twentieth-century architecture.

Books:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Cologne: Taschen Books, 2006.

Articles:

"The Monster Magnified: Architectural Photography as Visual Hyperbole" Perspecta 40: Monster (2008), 132-143.

"James Stirling Reassembled" AA Files 56 (November 2007), 30-41.

"Spatial Choreography and the Modern Domestic Interior: The Tugendhat House," Domès: International Review of Architecture 54: 1 (01/07), 110-125.

"Photographic Modern Architecture: Inside 'The New Deep'," Journal of Architecture 9 (2004): 331-354.

"Tugendhat Frames," Harvard Design Magazine 15 (Fall 2001), 24-31. Reprint in translation, ARCH+ Berlin, Germany (June 2002): 23-31.

Exhibition projects:

Research consultant, Mies in Berlin. Museum of Modern Art, 2001.