Sean Keller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Room 210
3410 S. State Street
Office Hours: Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm
Phone: 312.527.3828
Fax: 312.567.5820
Email:
skeller1@iit.edu
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Expertise
- Architectural History and Theory
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005
- M.Arch, Princeton University, 1994
- B.A., Princeton University, 1992
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
ArticlesForthcoming: "Formal Logic and the Logic of Form: Early Eisenman and the Cambridge Context" in Computational Architectures, Philippe Morel, ed. (Orléans: HYX Editions, 2008).
Forthcoming: article on Buckminster Fuller, Artforum (November 2008).
“Bidden City: On the Beijing Olympics,” Artforum (Summer 2008): 137-142.
"Systems Aesthetics, or How Cambridge Solved Architecture" in Architecture and Authorship: Studies in Disciplinary Remediation, Rolf Hughes, Katja Grillner, and Tim Anstey, eds. (London: Black Dog Publications, 2007).
"Behind the Curtain: On Renovating Crown Hall and the Yale University Art Gallery," Artforum (February 2007): 101-2.
"Fenland Tech: Architectural Science in Postwar Cambridge," Grey Room 23 (Spring 2006): 40-65.
“10283EFE0F02 or the Seagram Building” in The Art of Architecture/The Science of Architecture, Renata Hejduk, and Harry Van Oudenallen, eds., 2005.
Reviews, Short Essays and Conversations
Forthcoming: “What Would Kant Think?” in Digital Materiality in Architecture (Baden: Lars Müller, 2008).
Forthcoming: “Five Points for Post-Industrial Re-Use,” panel discussion, Envisioning the Bloomingdale: Chicago Architecture Club Journal 08, 2008.
Preview of "Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner," an exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Artforum (May 2008).
Preview of "Le Corbusier: Art and Architecture—A Life of Creativity," an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Japan, Artforum (Summer 2007).
"The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture," Constructs 9, no. 2 (Yale School of Architecture: Spring 2007): 17. Review of The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture, Peter Eisenman.
“Spatial Psychology,” Art Journal 60 (Winter 2001): 109-110. Review of Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, Anthony Vidler.
Conference Papers
Forthcoming: “The Genius of Algorithms,” [architecture] in the age of [digital] reproduction, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Central Fall Conference, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, October 2008.
"Numerical Beauty: Algorithmic Architecture and the Kantian Split," Building, Designing, Thinking: Third International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture, Alvar Aalto Academy, Jyväskylä, Finland, August 2008.
“Systems Aesthetics, or How Cambridge Solved Architecture,” Architecture and Authorship, symposium, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2008.
"Naturalized Constructions: The Rhetoric and Realization of Frei Otto's Minimal Surfaces," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2007.
“10283EFE0F02 or the Seagram Building” for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2005.
Talks, Lectures, Panels and Interviews
Forthcoming: “Party Games: Beijing’s Olympic Architecture,” lecture, Arts Club of Chicago, October 2008.
“The Ethics of Building for the Olympics,” interview on Worldview, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio (also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio), 19 August 2008.
“Munich ‘72,” talk, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, August 2008.
Interview for article on the Beijing Olympics, De Ingenieur, Journal of the Association of Engineers, Netherlands, June 2008.
Panelist, Envisioning the Bloomingdale, Chicago Architecture Club, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, March 2008.
Respondent, “Deborah Gans, Organism: Bridging the Gap between Architecture and Engineering,” Proseminar Series, IIT College of Architecture, February 2008.
"Patterns and Networks," guest lecture for Contemporary Architectural Theory, Prof. Peter Eisenman, Yale School of Architecture, April 2007.
"Munich '72: The Surfaces of Olympiapark," talk, Work in Progress Series, Yale University, Department of the History of Art, February 2007.
"Reopening Kahn," lecture and gallery tour of the renovated Yale University Art Gallery as a benefit for the Edith B. Jackson Childcare Center, New Haven, January 2007.
“Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” guest lecture for Building Modern Society, Prof. Sandy Isenstadt, Yale University Department of the History of Art, October 2002.
“The Role of Theory in Contemporary Art and Architecture,” talk at the Institut für Theorie und Kunst, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich, June 2002.
Moderator and respondent, Testing Ground symposium, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and MIT Department of Architecture, 1999.
Professional Society Memberships
Editorial Board Service
Professional Society Service
Grants and Fellowships
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2008
- Eliot Fellowship, Harvard University, 2003 - 2004
- Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, 2001 - 2002
- Francois Valery Scholarship, Princeton University School of Architecture, 1993