Robert Somol

Robert Somol

Robert E. Somol Jr. is an architectural theorist currently serving as the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Education

He holds an A.B. from Brown University (1982), a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in the history of culture from the University of Chicago (1997).

Academic career

Previously a professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, he has taught design and theory at Princeton University, UCLA, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rice University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Writing

Somol is also an author and a contributor to several publications. His writings, which have appeared in publications ranging from "Assemblage" to "Wired", focus on modernism and its modes of repetition, the emergence of the diagram in postwar architecture, landscape and interior urbanism, and the criticism of contemporary architectural practices and pedagogy.

He was a guest editor for volume five of the contemporary architecture journal "Log" and served as a member of the editorial board of "ANY" magazine, which explored the cultural role of architecture and its relationships to other disciplines. He is also a member of the Research Board of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.

Design

Somol was formerly a principal at the Los Angeles architecture firm P XS. He is the co-designer of "off-use," an award-winning studio and residence in Los Angeles (2002) that extends his interest in combining the speculative discipline of modernism with the material excesses of mass culture or, as he describes it, "beinehe nichts meets la dolce vita".

Books

*"Nothing to Declare" (essay collection, forthcoming)
*"Autonomy and Ideology: Positioning an Avant-Garde in America" (ed., 1997)

Journal Articles

*Somol, R.E. and Whiting, Sarah. "Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism." Perspecta 33 (2002): 72-77.
*Somol, R.E. "Green Dots 101." Hunch 11 (2007): 28-37.
*Somol, R.E. "12 Reasons to Get Back in Shape." In Content, edited by Office of Metropolitan Architecture. and Rem Koolhaas. Köln: Taschen, 2004.

External links

* [http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1012&articleID=556490 Somol to Direct UIC School of Architecture]


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