HTC Experiments

Photograph by Dan Hill (City of Sound)

David Gissen is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism. He is assistant professor of architecture and visual studies and coordinator of the  history/theory curriculum for architecture at the California College of the Arts. His recent work specifically focuses on developing a novel concept of nature in architectural thought and the parameters for an experimental form of practice in architectural history.

David is the author of the book Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environment (Princeton Architectural Press); editor of a forthcoming issue of AD Magazine “Territory”; and editor of the book Big and Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003). His essays are included in journals and books such as Log (Anycorp), Cabinet Magazine, Volume, Grey Room, AA Files, Constructs (Yale), The Journal of Architecture (UK), The Journal of Architectural Education,  Models and Drawings (Routledge) and Writing Urbanism (Routledge). His curatorial work has been staged at galleries including the National Building Museum, Yale Architecture Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art and The Museum of the City of New York. Design work includes installations, architectural/technical experiments and speculations for institutional and municipal organizations.

He is the recipient of two Graham Foundation grants, the Richard J. Carroll Lectureship from Johns Hopkins University, and the Chalsty Award at CCA.

He studied architecture at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, Yale University, and recently completed a PhD at the University of London under the direction of Matthew Gandy and Adrian Forty.

Contact by putting the initial of first name and the entirety of last name at cca.edu