T A I S T O H. M Ä K E L Ä

Dipl., B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D.

Associate Professor Department of Architecture College of Architecture and Planning University of Colorado Denver.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 2013-present 2009-13 2005

Director, Finnish Initiatives. Chairman, Department of Architecture. Interim Director, Ph.D. Program.

EDUCATION 1991 1987 1982 1978

Princeton University. Ph.D., Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism. Princeton University. M.A., Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism. University of Oregon. B.Arch. Magna Cum Laude. British Columbia Institute of Technology. Dipl. Building Technology.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1997-present 1989-97 1988-89 1985-88

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver. Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver. Lecturer, Southern California Institute of Architecture. Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University.

RESEARCH and SCHOLARSHIP PUBLICATIONS Chapters in Books 2014

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“Architecture and Cultural Identity in Finland, 1960-2010,” A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture [1960-2010], edited by Elie G. Haddad and David Rifkind. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014), pp. 275-290. “Reima Pietilä and Designing Immanence,” Hikes into Pietilä Terrain, edited by Aino Niskanen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, Tommi Lindh (Helsinki: Rakennustaiteen Seura ja Taidehistorian Seura), pp. 40-53. Translated as “Reima Pietilä ja immanenssin suunnittelu,” Polkuja Pietilän maastoon, (Helsinki: Rakennustaiteen Seura ja Taidehistorian Seura, 201o), pp. 47-59. "Architecture and Modern Identity in Finland," Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities 1930-97, edited by Marianne Aav and Nina StritzlerLevine (New Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 52-81.

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“Why the Classical? Two decades of Teaching at the University of Colorado Denver,” The Classicist No. 10, edited by Richard John, pp. 102-107. With Cameron Kruger. “Reima Pietilä,” Arhitectura, Bucharest pp. 1-6. English text with Romanian translation. “Raili and Reima Pietilä: challengers of modern architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68:2, June 2009, pp. 259-261. Exhibition review of “Raili ja Reima Pietilä: Modernin Arkkitehtuurin Haastajat,” (Helsinki February 27 – May 25 2008, Museum of Finnish Architecture). “From the Academies,” The Classicist No. 10, p. 62. “An Enigma of Principles: Gio Ponti and The Denver Art Museum,” NEOS, Volume 3, No. 1, pp. 14-18. “Aalto’s Apex,” Landscape Architecture, Volume 80, No. 3, (March), p. 33 (in collaboration with A.E. Komara). "Deconstructivist Architecture," Icon: Design & Architecture, Volume 13, 1988-89, pp. 24-27 (Japanese translation). "The Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation," Lotus International #50, pp. 75-86.

Journals, Refereed by Peers. 1991

“Modernity and the Historical Perspectivism of Nietzsche and Loos,” Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 44, No. 3 (May), pp. 138-143.

Scholarly Proceedings, Refereed. 2015

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“Madera, Luz y Arquitectura en Finlandia” (“Wood, Light, and Architecture in Finland”), Arquitectural y Humanismo (Architecture and Humanism), edited by Alejandro García Hermida, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), (Madrid: Mairea Libros), pp. 96-99. “Reima Pietilä: Conjuring the Authentic,” Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto, June 26-29. “Architecture and Cultural Identity in Finland,” Proceedings of the Theatres of Decolonization Conference, 1995, pp. 87-94. “Le Corbusier, Modernism, and the Aesthetic of Techne,” Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1994, pp. 330333. “Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea and the Modernity of Tradition,” Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1993, pp. 139-143.

Editorships. 1988-91 1985-88

Editor, Wars of Classification: Architecture and Modernity (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991). With Wallis Miller, Production Editor. Editor of The Princeton Journal: Thematic Studies in Architecture, Vol. III "Canon" (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988).

In Preparation. Monograph: Essays:

Gio Ponti and the Denver Art Museum. Le Corbusier and the Privileged Eye. 2

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“Life in Super-Tall Buildings,” Department of Architecture, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, November 24. “Life in Super-Tall Buildings,” School of Architecture, University of Oulu, November 23. “Life in Super-Tall Buildings,” School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, November 22. “Poetic Details: Wood and Architecture in Finland,” International Program in Design + Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, January 14. “Wood, Light, and Architecture in Finland,” Architecture and Humanism International Seminar, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, October 29-30. “4 Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil,” School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, October 15. “4 Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil,” Department of Architecture, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, October 14. “4 Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil,” School of Architecture, University of Oulu, October 12. Invited Discussant, Wickberg Annual Lecture delivered by Kenneth Frampton “Homage à Finlandia: Finnish Architecture and the Unfinished Modern Project,” Aalto University, October 9. The Cultural Continuum of Wood Architecture in Finland, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris – Belleville. February 20. The Ph.D. Degree Today, Division of Architectural and Design, Faculty of Industrial Education, King Mongkut ‘s Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang. Bangkok, Thailand. January 4. Visiting Professor. “Global Architecture and Education,” School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology September 25. Lecture. “Global Architecture and Education,” Department of Architecture, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, September 24. Lecture. “Global Architecture and Education,” School of Architecture, University of Oulu, September 22. Lecture. “Wood and Light”, Capturing the Present: The Multiple Perspectives on Contemporary Architecture Symposium, Lebanese American University, Beirut & Byblos, Lebanon, April 24. Four Art Museums,Denver: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil. Zaragoza University, Spain. April 3. Two-hour lecture. The Cultural Continuum of Wood Architecture in Finland. Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid, Spain. April 1. Two-hour lecture. “Finnish Wooden Architecture,” University of Utah, February 7. Architecture and Cultural Identity in Finland, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. November 25. Keynote Speaker, “Architecture and Ethics,” Piran Days of Architecture, Slovenia. November 19-20. “Reima Pietilä, Shaman,” School of Architecture, University of Oulu, September 23. “Four Art Museums: Ponti,Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil.“ Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. September 18. “Four Art Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye, Cloepfil.” Tampere University of Technology, September 17. “Architecture and Cultural Identity,” January 7. Visiting Professor, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Department of Architectural Education, Bangkok. January 4-8.

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Architecture and Cultural Identity, January 7. Visiting Faculty Member, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Department of Architectural Education, Bangkok. January 4-8. “Why the Classical,” Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Rocky Mountain Chapter, Denver. March 29. Finland: 100 years of Architecture. March 21. Visiting Faculty Member, School of Architecture and Design, Lebanese American University, Beirut & Byblos, Lebanon. March 19-23. Keynote Speaker, INTERCAD (International Conference on Architecture and Design), Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, September 21-24. Speaker, “Gio Ponti,” Mixed Taste 2011: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, August 5. Visiting Professor, Ph.D. School, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Ubanism, Bucharest, Romania. History and Interpretation, May 5. The Concept of the Art Museum, May 6. Reima Pietilä and the Non-rational, May 7. The Tale of 4 Art Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye & Cloepfil, University of Hong Kong, January 15. Expanded and revised version of the lecture below. Reima Pietilä and an Architecture of Essence, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 14. Architecture: Cultural Identity & Beautiful Utility, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, January 8. The Tale of 4 Art Museums: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye & Cloepfil, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, January 5. Refractions of the Modern. Helsinki University of Technology, May 7. Modern Ideals. Helsinki University of Technology, May 5. The Sublime, Gothic, & Morality. Helsinki University of Technology, March 28. Enlightenment, Character, & Architecture. Helsinki University of Technology, March 25. Alberti and Visuality, Helsinki University of Technology, February 27. Vitruvius and the Claims of Arete, Helsinki University of Technology, February 25. Architecture and Beautiful Utility. Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 10. Architecture and Cultural Identity. College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China January 3. “The Art of the Museum?” Savannah College of Art and Design, October 15. Expanded and revised lecture based on “The Art of the Museum” 2006, below. “The Art of the Museum,” The Precarious Balance between Architecture and Art Symposium, Denver Art Museum, November 14. Le Corbusier and Functional Aesthetics, DESSA (Architect's Association), Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2. Le Corbusier and Techne, International Master's Program, Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, July 22. Identity, the Aesthetic, and the Tectonic: 100 years of Finnish Architecture, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, March 16. Considering the Aesthetic and the Tectonic, International Master's Program, Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, July 23. Alvar Aalto’s Experimental House and the Question of Precedent. The Denver Art Museum, April 15. Le Corbusier in India: the Question of Identity, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, April 6. The Villa Mairea, Modernity, and Identity, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, April 4. 4

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Le Corbusier, Modernity, and Techne, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, April 3. Aalto’s Villa Mairea and the Modernity of Tradition, College of Architecture, University of Kentucky, March 22. Modernity, Myth, and the Villa Mairea, School of Architecture, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India, January 16. An Enigma of Principles: Gio Ponti and The Denver Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, January 19. Aalto and the Myth of Modernity, University of Oklahoma, February 21. Debate with Douglas Darden: The Possibility of Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado at Denver, February 12.

Conference Papers, Refereed Selection. 2017

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“Spanish Architects Reading Alvar Aalto”, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Glasgow, June 7-11. Co-cauthored by Lucía Pérez Gomez. Paper proposal accepted. “Collaborative Learning and Haptic Senses,” 11th Annual Conference, British Education Studies Association, Cardiff, Wales, June 25-26. Co-authored and co-presented with Dr. Koompong (Joey) Noobanjong of KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand. “Le Corbusier and Visual Literacy”, 8th Global Visual Literacies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 18-20. “Architecture or Autonomy”, Autonomy Reconsidered, International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture Conference, Delft, Holland, July 9-11. Paper proposal accepted but not delivered due to illness. “Zeitgeist in the Service of Modern Architecture,” Neither ‘Modernism’ nor ‘Avant-Garde’, European Architectural History Network, Brussels, May 31 – June 3. "Ousia, Aalto, and Modernism," Alvar Aalto now: New research Initiatives, First Alvar Aalto Research Conference. Seinäjoki & Jyväskylä, Finland, March 12-14. “The Architecture of Reima Pietilä: The Material and Spiritual,” 7th Savannah Symposium: The Spirituality of Place, February 17-19. “Three Art Museum Practices: Ponti, Libeskind, Adjaye,” Third International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Istanbul, June 29 – July 2. Paper accepted but not delivered due to lack of travel funding. “Reima Pietilä: Conjuring the Authentic,” Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto, June 26-29. "Reima Pietilä and Cultural Identity: The Sief Palace Area Buildings in Kuwait City," Regional Architecture and Identity in the Age of Globalization, International Conference for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis, November 13-15. “Reima Pietilä and the Search for Immanent Form: The Sief Palace Area Buildings,” Conference on Sources of Architectural Form, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, March 10-13. Paper accepted but not delivered due to lack of travel funds. Gio Ponti and the Enigma of Architectural Principles, The Humanities Conference, Tunis, Tunisia, July 3-6. Paper accepted but not delivered due to lack of travel funds. Baumgarten, the Aesthetic and Agency, “German Idealism and Modernity” Session, ISSEI Tenth International Conference - The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Malta, July 24-29.

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Pietilä and the Genius Loci, Reima Pietilä Conference, Dipoli Congress Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, November 28. Aalto and the Modern Movement, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 11-14. Paper accepted. “Ousia, Aalto, and Modernism,” Authenticity in Architecture, Savannah Symposium, Savannah College of Art and Design, February 15-17. Paper accepted but not delivered due to lack of travel funding. "The Experimental House, Abstraction, and Identity," Interpreting Aalto Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1-2. "The Classical, the Vernacular, and Aalto's Modernism," XIVth InternationalCongress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2. “Alvar Aalto and a Regional Modernism,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture International Conference, Berlin, June 3. “Aalto’s Experimental House and the Question of Precedent,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Baltimore, April 17. “The Identity of Modernity: Alvar Aalto and the Villa Kokkonen,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 19. “Architectural Modernity and the Aesthetic Moment,” Aesthetics in Practice, XIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Lahti, Finland, August 1-5. “Architecture and Cultural Identity in Finland,” Theatres of Decolonization Conference, Chandigarh, India, January 9. “Le Corbusier, Modernism, and the Aesthetic of Techne,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Montréal, March 12-15. “Architectural Modernity and the Aesthetic Moment,” Aesthetics and Its Others, The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, October 29. “Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea and the Modernity of Tradition,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Charleston, March 13-16 (paper accepted). “Introduction,” Architecture and Nationalism II: The Twentieth Century, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Charleston, April 16. “Introduction,” Reinterpreting History, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, April 25. "Architecture, Regionalism, and Nationalism," Forum on Regional Architecture, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, March 22. "Aalto's Villa Mairea and the Modernity of Fragments," Order and Free Will, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Southwest Regional Meeting, Rice University, November 3. “Introduction,” “Interpreting Architecture Through Theory,” Interpreting Architecture, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Western Regional Meeting, Denver, October 19. "Loos, Nietzsche and Historical Perspectivism," Historiography and Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians’ Annual Meeting, Boston, March 29.

Conference Organization, Refereed Selection. 2001 1993 1991

Chair, Utopia: Theory and Practice, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 19. Chair, Architecture and Nationalism II: The Twentieth Century, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Charleston, April 16. Chair, Reinterpreting History, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, April 25.

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Member, Organizing Committee, Architecture and Politics Symposium, Lebanese American University, November 10-11. Member, Scientific Committee, INTERCAD (International Conference on Architecture and Design), Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, November 26, 27. Member, International Review Committee (Scientific Committee), “Regional Architecture and Identity in the Age of Globalization,” Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR), Tunis, November 13-15. Organizer and Chair, “(re:)interpreting MODERNISM,” Mellon Ph.D. Colloquium in Architecture, Princeton University, March 5. Chair, Mellon Ph.D. Symposia in Architecture, Princeton University.

Public Events, Other. 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007

Invited participant, Europa Nostra Award and 80th anniversary celebrations for Alvar Aalto’s Library, Viipuri, Russia, October 13. Invited presenter, High Ground design symposium, Buena Vista, Colorado, June 10-13. Jury Member (“Selector”), 31st Piranesi Architecture Awards, Piran, Slovenia. November 22. Invited presenter, High Ground design symposium, Buena Vista, Colorado, July 19-22. Respondent, Question & Answer Session after screening of “Bauhaus: Model and Myth”, Architecture + Design Film Series, September 15. Invited presenter, High Ground design symposium, Buena Vista, Colorado, July 8-11. Guest Critic, Design Excellence Awards, Denver, May 10. Discussant, Logan Conversation Series with architect David Adjaye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, March 11. Respondent, Design and Its Publics: Curators, Critics, and Historians, University of Minnesota, April 27-28.

Media. 2013

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Interviewed on “Architecture and Ethics”, the topic of the 31st Piran Days of Architecture Conference, RTV SLO (Slovenian National TV), November 23. http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/ Interviewed on “Architecture and Ethics”, the topic of the 31st Piran Days of Architecture Conference, Radio Slovenia, November 21. Interviewed for “Design Onscreen Showcases Modernist Architecture Films to Audiences Worldwide,” AIArchitect Vol. 18 • April 1, 2011 http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB088509 “A Discussion with David Adjaye,” FM Magazine, Denver, June/July, pp. 21-23. http://issuu.com/fm_mag/docs/fm03?mode=embed&documentId=080819052806806 a992439eb4f32820473df5ebdaaa5&layout=wood Interviewer, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, AIA Denver oral history series, October 6. Interviewed about the Denver Art Museum complex for the cultural program “Aspekte” on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) German Television. Filmed in Denver April 1, 2, and 3. Broadcast in Germany on April 14. http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/19/0,4070,5264371-6-rv_dsl,00.html

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Interviewed and quoted about the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum and the experience of dizziness by visitors. “Suffering for Someone Else’s Art,” Time Magazine, Vol. 168, No.25, December 18, p. 24. Interviewed about the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum and the experience of dizziness by visitors. Channel 9 KUSA 9:30 and Channel 20 KTVD 9:00 television news programs, December 3. Interviewed and quoted about the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum and the experience of dizziness by visitors. “DAM: It’s Dizzying,” the Denver Sunday Post Newspaper, pages 1A & 6A, December 3. Interviewed and quoted about the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum and the experience of dizziness by visitors. “Denver Art Nauseum,” Daily Camera Newspaper, Boulder, pages 1A &7A. October 16. Panel member, discussion on the Hamilton Building addition to the Denver Art Museum, moderated by Joe Juhasz on KGNU Radio, Boulder, March 16.

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AIA Large Firm Roundtable and Deans’ Forum, Chicago, October 15 and 16. Invited speaker and participant, “National Curriculum Conference”, Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, Newport, RI, July 11-14. ACSA National Conference, San Francisco, March 21-24. ACSA Administrators Conference, Austin, Texas, November 1-3. ACSA 1ooth Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1-4. Invited participant, “National Curriculum Conference”, Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, Newport, RI, July 11-14. ACSA 100th Annual Conference, Boston, March 1-4. Invited speaker and participant, “National Curriculum Conference”, Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, New York City, July 26-27. Invited participant, Excellence in Leadership Program, University of Colorado System. ACSA Administrators Conference, Los Angeles, November 10-12. AIA Large Firm Roundtable and Deans’ Forum, Palo Alto, October 25-26. AIA Colorado Design Conference, Keystone, October 13-15. ACSA Annual Conference, Montréal, March 3-6. Invited participant, “NAAB Focus Group”, ACSA Annual Conference, Montréal, March 5. Member, NAAB Visiting Team (representing ACSA), Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, February 12-16. Advancement Resource’s Training, CU & Colorado Foundations. January 27. ACSA Administrators Conference, Washington, DC, November 11-13. AIA Colorado Design Conference, Keystone, October 14-16. AIA Large Firm Roundtable and Deans’ Forum, Portland, Oregon, September 28-29. Creative Leadership Academy, Provost’s Office, Office of Faculty Affairs, and the Center for Faculty Development. August 19. Insight into Philanthropy Workshop, UC Denver and Colorado Foundation. April 6. Chairing the Academic Department workshop, American Council on Education, Austin, Texas, November 4-7.

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