UCLA AUD Summer Programs 2022 Lecture Series: Cristóbal Amunategui and Dana Cuff



UCLA AUD Summer Programs 2022 Lecture Series

Cristóbal Amunátegui is assistant professor of architectural history at UCLA, and partner in the Santiago-based office Amunátegui Valdés. He received his BA in Architecture from Universidad Católica de Chile, an MS from Columbia University, and a PhD from Princeton University. His recent research investigates architecture’s intersections with art, trade, and technology in nineteenth-century France, focusing on emerging modalities of patronage and representation during France’s transition from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. Other research and teaching interests include the early modern history of techniques, modernism and its twentieth century corollaries in architecture, and the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiographies across disciplines. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between buildings, crowds, and speculation in 1860s-80s France. Amunátegui’s essays and book reviews have appeared in AA Files, Faktur, and Critical Inquiry among others. His past editorial work includes the journal Potlatch (Columbia GSAPP), and his membership in the editorial board of the journal ARQ (Santiago, Chile). He has previously taught at Columbia University and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2011 Amunátegui co-founded the office Amunátegui Valdés, which comprises the architectural work he and Alejandro Valdes have developed since 2004.

Dr. Dana Cuff engages spatial justice and cultural studies of architecture as a teacher, scholar, practitioner, and activist. Her leadership in urban innovation is widely recognized both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2006, Cuff founded cityLAB, a research and design center that initiates experimental projects to explore metropolitan possibilities. In 2019, cityLAB expanded its social and political engagement by creating coLAB in the Westlake/MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, in long-term partnership with community organizations. cityLAB represented the United States at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, was featured on CNN and in Newsweek magazine, and was named one of the top four urban think tanks in the country by Architect Magazine. The lab’s “housing first” research demonstrates that affordable, well-designed housing and neighborhoods are attainable foundations of equitable cities. cityLAB has developed sustainable, high-performance, low-cost housing prototypes for infill sites ranging from backyards to schoolyards. In 2017, after a decade of research that included a full-scale demonstration house built on the UCLA campus, Cuff co-authored California State legislation, effectively opening 8.1M single-family lots for secondary rental units. Since 2013, Cuff has led a cross-disciplinary team at UCLA with a substantial multi-year award from The Mellon Foundation for the “Urban Humanities Initiative.” UHI offers students from architecture, urban studies, and the humanities a radical platform for crossdisciplinary, impactful, urban scholarship and action. Cuff co-authored a book about this effort entitled Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City (MIT Press, 2020). This is the most recent of numerous books, including Architects’ People (with W.R. Ellis; 1989), Architecture: The Story of Practice (1989), The Provisional City (2000), and Fast Forward Urbanism (edited with R. Sherman, 2011). Dana Cuff publishes and lectures extensively about the modern American metropolis, architectural agency, affordable housing, and architecture’s potential for creating more just cities. Dr. Cuff recently received three prestigious awards that describe her career: Women in Architecture Activist of the Year (2019, Architectural Record), an international prize for Researcher of the Year (2019, Architectural Research Centers Consortium), and Educator of the Year (2020, American Institute of Architects Los Angeles).

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