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Eric Paul Mumford

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Eric P Mumford is an architect and historian who academic research focuses on modern architecture and urbanism. He is also currently the co-curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum exhibition Design Agendas: modern architecture in St Louis, 1930s-1970s, and is a co-principal investigator for the Washington University McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Global Incubator Seed Grants Fund, “Edges of Privacy,” research on open walkway housing, with Mónica Rivera, JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and Chair of Graduate Architecture, 2021-23.

Awards

  • Getty Research Institute residency, Los Angeles, July-August, 2023.
  • Fulbright Specialist Award, visiting professor in urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, July and December 2013
  • Defining Urban Design, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2009
  • Defining Urban Design, Honorable Mention, American Publishers Awards, 2009

Relevant Publications

  • Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850 (Yale University Press, 2018)
  • Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69 (Yale University Press, 2009)
  • The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (2000, MIT Press, second edition forthcoming).

Institution

Washington University in St Louis

Department

College of Architecture

Education

  • PhD Architecture, Princeton University, 1996
  • M.Arch. M.I.T. School of Architecture and Planning, 1983
  • A.B. History, Harvard College, 1980

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United States

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