109 Pickard Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211-1420   phone: 573-882-6711   fax: 573-884-5269   email: aha@missouri.edu

Keith Eggener

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
American Art and Architecture
Ph.D., Stanford University

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-884-3977
fax: 573-884-5269
email: EggenerK at missouri dot edu
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Teaching

• AHA 2830: American Art and Architecture
• AHA 3005: Topics: Modern Art and Architecture in Latin America
• AHA 3005: Topics: Cities in the Western Imagination
• AHA 3720: Cities in the Western Imagination
• AHA 3840: American Art and Culture, 1820-1913
• AHA 4640 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
• AHA 4740/7740: Modern Architecture
• AHA 4840/7840: American Architecture and Urbanism
• AHA 7996: Introduction to Graduate Study: Art History
• AHA 8740 Seminar: Modern Architecture and Death
• AHA 8800 Seminar: Public Space and Public Art in the U.S.

Research

Recent publications include:

Nationalism, Internationalism, and the 'Naturalization' of Modern Architecture in the United States, 1925-1940, forthcoming in National Identities (England).

Luis Barragán ve El Pedregal Bahçeleri, Betonart (Turkey), no. 6 (2005), 74-81.

Editor, American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader, (London: Routledge, 2004).

The Presence of the Past: Architecture and Politics in Modern Mexico, A+U, (Tokyo), no. 389 (2003), 18-29.

Conditions pour entrer dans l'Histoire ou tomber dans 'Oubli dans le Mexique modern, 1942-1958: La Ville imaginée par Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragán, Mathias Goeritz et Mario Pani, in Jean-Francois Lejeune, ed., Cruauté & Utopie: Villes et Paysages d'Amérique Latine (Brussels: CIVA, 2003).

Placing Resistance: A Critique of Critical Regionalism, Journal of Architectural Education, 55: 4 (2002), 228-237.

Luis Barragán y la Crítica Mexicana en los Años Cincuenta, Kalias: Revista del Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 13: 25-26 (2001-2002), 172-183.

Luis Barragán's Gardens of El Pedregal (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

Barragán's 'Photographic Architecture': Image, Advertising, and Memory, in Federica Zanco, ed., Luis Barragán: The Quiet Revolution (Milan: Skira, 2001).

Material Culture: Why Little Things Mean A Lot, in Rachel Hurst and Gini Lee, eds., TEN10: anniversary objects (Adelaide: University of South Australia Art Museum, 2001), 6-8.

Review Essay: Julie Nicoletta, Buildings of Nevada (New York: Oxford, 2000), and Mark Gottdiener et al., Las Vegas, The Social Production of an All-American City (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 60: 3 (2001), 369-373.

Contrasting Images of Identity in the Post-War Mexican Architecture of Luis Barragán and Juan O'Gorman, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 9: 1 (2000), 27-45.

Ongoing projects include a book on American cemeteries (forthcoming as part of the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering series), and another tentatively titled Modernity and Mortality in 20th Century American Architecture. I also serve as Associate Editor and Chair, Interim Editorial Committee, of the Buildings of the United States series.

Liberty Memorial
Kansas City, MO
Keith Eggener photo

Luis Barragán
El Pedregal Plaza
Keith Eggener photo

American Architectural History,
2004

Luis Barragán's Gardens of El Pedregal,
2001