Michael Speaks - editor / critic / researcher USA chairman director MR+D, SCI-Arc editorial advisory board member A+U

Michael Speaks (Ph.D., Duke University) is an educator, researcher and editor. He is currently Director of the Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Speaks has taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, in the architecture departments at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and has been a researcher on the Architecture Faculty at the Technological University at Delft in the Netherlands. Speaks has published and lectured internationally on art, architecture, urban design and scenario planning, and is a contributing editor for Architectural Record
as well as an editorial advisory board member of A+U (Tokyo) for which he edits the series 'Design Intelligence'.
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Michael Speaks, SCI-Arc / MR+D, Los Angeles

Education

Ph.D., Duke University, 1993
B.A., The University of Mississippi, 1983

Training

Scenario Planning, Global Business Network, Emeryville, CA, September 2000


Professional and administrative experience

Graduate Program Director, Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-Arc,
1998-2001

Director, Metropolitan Research and Design (MR+D), Postgraduate Masters in Architecture, 1999-present

Director, BIG SOFT ORANGE, Inc., 1998-present

Director, Public Relations, The Monacelli Press, New York, NY, 1997-98

Senior Editor, ANY (Architecture New York), 1993-95


Teaching positions

Instructor, Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-Arc, 1998-present

Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, 1997-1999

Lecturer, Graphic Design Department, Yale School of Art, Yale University, 1997-98


Teaching positions visiting

Visiting Professor, Metropolis Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture, Barcelona, Spain, Summer, 2002

Visiting Professor, International Design Summer, Department of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Summer, 2002

Visiting Professor, INDESEM 2000, TU-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, Fall, 2000

Visiting Professor, Center for Contemporary Architecture Studies, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Summer, 1999

Visiting Professor, INDESEM 1998, TU-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, Summer, 1998

Guest Professor, The Berlage Institute: Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Fall, 1997

Editorial board memberships

Series Editor, "Design Intelligence: New Offices and New Forms of Practice," A+U.
2002 to present

Contributing Editor, Architectural Record, 2000 to present

Editorial Advisory Board, A+U, Tokyo, Japan, 1999 to present

Editorial Committee, Stylos Book Series, TU-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 1998 to present

Writing Architecture, ANY/MIT Press, 1995 to present

Books edited

Mart Stam's Trousers: Scenes from Behind Dutch Modernism, Crimson with Michael Speaks and Gerard Hadders (Rotterdam: The Netherlands: 010 Publishers, 1999)

The Critical Landscape, Michael Speaks, ed. (Rotterdam, The Netherlands: 010 Publishers, 1997)

Architectural Bodies, Arie Graafland, Michael Speaks, ed. (Rotterdam, The Netherlands: 010 Publishers, 1997)

Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money, Kojin Karatani, Sabu Kohso, trans., Michael Speaks, ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995)

Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, Bernard Cache, Anne Boyman, trans., Michael Speaks, ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995)


Recent lectures

"Space Condition: International Architecture Symposium," Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, October 25, 2002

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, "Contested Urbanism Series," October 11, 2002

Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 1, 2002

Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture, June 10, 2002

School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal, April 29, 2002