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SUMMARY:Michael Osman (UCLA) - "Contractor as Capitalist. Building the Eri
 e Canal" - Neighbours Lectures on History and Theory of Architecture Vol. 
 1
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DESCRIPTION:Michael Osman’s research in architectural history focuses on
  the 19th and 20th centuries\, with a particular emphasis on buildings and
  cities in the United States. He seeks connections between the infrastruct
 ure that undergirds the processes of modernization and the historiography 
 of modernist architecture. The topics of his writing include: the influenc
 e of ecological science on theories of city growth\, early instruments for
  remote sensing\, and the architectural profession’s relation to modern 
 construction processes. Osman is the author of Modernism’s Visible Hand
 : Architecture and Regulation in America (University of Minnesota Press\,
  2018)\, a book on the role buildings have played in developing systems fo
 r environmental and economic regulation. He also works on critical problem
 s in modernism’s historiography such as his examination of Reyner Banham
 ’s use of the term “ecology\,” an analysis of the metaphysical aspir
 ations latent in twentieth-century writings on concrete\, and a co-edited 
 volume Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twent
 y-First Century (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2021). Osman is one of 
 the founding members of Aggregate: The Architectural History Collaborative
 \, a platform for exploring new methods in architectural history. He co-cu
 rated a portion of the exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking 
 the Archive” at the Museum of Modern Art. His research has been supporte
 d by fellowships from the University of California Humanities Research Ins
 titute\, the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Program. He cur
 rently directs University of California Los Angeles Department’s MA and 
 PhD programs.
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