西方建筑史专题讲座

The Emergence of Chicago Modern Architecture

主讲：Professor Thomas Mical
Head of the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
主持：卢永毅教授
时间：4月17日（周一）下午13:30
地点：同济大学建筑与城市规划学院D楼D1报告厅

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Smooth Space and Hypermodern Architecture

主讲：Professor Thomas Mical
Head of the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
主持：王斌博士研究生（苏州大学）
时间：4月18日（周二）晚18:30
地点：同济大学建筑与城市规划学院钟庭报告厅

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Professor Thomas Mical

Qualifications:
BDesign(Hons), University of Florida, 1987.
MArch, Harvard University GSD, 1990.
MSc in Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992.
PhD in Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998.

Memberships and Affiliations:
US Fulbright German Studies Program, 2001.
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, 2004-2008.
Associate Professor of Architecture, RPI, 2008-2011.
Associate Professor of Architecture, UniSA, 2012-2015.
Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE, 2015.
Professor of Architectural Theory, AUT, October 2015 - present.

Biography:
Mical grew up in Chicago, completed his Masters at Harvard. After interning in Tokyo, he returned to the United States and completed his PhD in Architectural Theory at Georgia Tech. He then returned to his hometown of Chicago and worked in the architectural profession, and lived his boyhood dream- working on designing skyscrapers and airports.

Professor Mical made the switch to academia in 2000, to follow his curiosity and to travel globally. That travel brought him to New Zealand a number of times, and in 2013 he came to talk at a conference organized by AUT's St Paul St Art Gallery. He was struck by how progressive the Art + Design School was, how academically diverse and creative the people were. Mical joined AUT in October 2015 as the Head of the School of Art and Design. His interests are to grow the research and international reach of School of Art and Design. He also plans to continue to write scholarly books while in the leadership position.

Research Areas:
Professor Mical's research focuses on the historical, qualitative, and transformative attributes of architectural and urban spaces, with interest in the logical and sensory models and processes used in the production of spaces, and how these spaces then produce meanings and identities. His background in architectural theory, philosophy, and cultural studies inflects these investigations, which range across the spectrum of visible and invisible values forming and informing our spatial experiences. His work has also examined cinema and film theory, media-philosophy, other landscapes, and a teaching interest in hybrid and non-standard qualitative design-research methods.

Books:
Surrealism and Architecture(2005)
Doorknob(Object Lessons)(2017)