Professor of American and European Architecture and Director of Architectural Studies; Boston University, Department of History of Art and Architecture
The Thomas Jefferson Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Lecture
Daniel M. Abramson received his B.A. in English and American literature from Princeton University and Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. He is a Professor of American and European Architecture and the Director of Architectural Studies at Boston University. Abramson’s research focuses upon matters of economics, society, and architecture from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, with a specialization in British and American subjects. He is the author of three books: Obsolescence: An Architectural History (University of Chicago Press, 2016); Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694–1942 (Yale University Press, 2005); and Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001); as well as being co-editor of Governing By Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) with the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, of which he is also a founding director. His current research projects include the Boston State Service Center in relation to the American welfare state; and ongoing work on narrative and evidence in architectural history.
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