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@missouri.edu
c.v. in Word

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 3850: American Art and Culture, 1913-present
• AHA 4005: Contemporary Architecture
• 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 8740: Seminar: Architecture, Technology and Culture in the Modern Era
• AHA 8800 Seminar: Public Space and Public Art in the U.S.

Research

Recent publications include:

Cemeteries: Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., in press).

"Hometown, America: Seeing and Selling the Places that Huck and Mickey Built," Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, (Nov. 2009, in press).

"Up to Date in Kansas City: the Liberty Memorial as Modern Architecture," Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, (Oct. 2009, in press).

"Juan O'Gorman Versus the International Style," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (Sept. 2009).

"The Politics of the Past: Making Modern Architecture in Mexico and Beyond," in Petra Ceferin and Cvetka Pozar eds., Architectural Epicenters (Ljubljana: Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, 2008).

"John McAndrew, the Museum of Modern Art, and the 'Naturalization of Modern Architecture in America, ca. 1940," in Peter Herrle and Erik Wegerhoff, eds., Architecture and Identity (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2008).

Nationalism, Internationalism, and the 'Naturalization' of Modern Architecture in the United States, 1925-1940, National Identities (England), 8: 3 (2006), 243-258.

Book review: Jeff Byles, Rubble, Unearthing the History of Demolition, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65: 4 (2006), 643-645.

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.

Formerly Associate Editor of the Buildings of the United States series, I currently serve as Book Review Editor (Americas) for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Contributing Editor to Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm. Among other places, I've been invited to speak at the following institutions: Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Washington State University, University of Texas-Austin, University of Kansas, Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Carleton College, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (Spain), Palacio des Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Federal University of Para, Belém (Brazil), Rice Design Alliance/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Technical University, Berlin, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology. Architecture Museum, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam.

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