Michael P. Moynihan

Land, Space, and Identity in the Americas Fellow

Publications

Technocratic Visions

Technocratic Visions, Subterranean Realities: Luis Fernando Benedit’s Million Dollar Homes — Grey Room (2026), 68–89. Read Online

Soap Aristocracy and American Hegemony

Soap Aristocracy and American Hegemony: Lever House — in Architecture Since 1900 (forthcoming, Thames and Hudson).

Xi Jinping's War on Weird Buildings

Xi Jinping's War on Weird Buildings: OMA’s CCTV Headquarters — in Architecture Since 1900 (forthcoming, Thames and Hudson).

Aimless Strolls and Empty Space

Aimless Strolls and Empty Space: Experiments in Urban Cartography — Cornell Journal of Architecture, 13 (2025), 274–285.

Systems Everywhere

Systems Everywhere — Divergence in Architectural Research, 2021, 209–218. Read Online

Interrogating Architectural Evidence

Interrogar la evidencia arquitectónica: la exposición de Eyal Weizman y Rafi Segal para la Asociación Israelí de Arquitectos Unidos — Bitacora Arquitectura, 44 (2020), 4–17. Read Online

In Absence of Everyday Truths

In Absence of Everyday Truths — Canadian Centre for Architecture, April 15, 2020. Read Online

Selected presentations

2027
  • “Cultural History of the 2008 Housing Crisis,” Session Co-Chair (with Melanie Ball), Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Chicago (forthcoming).
2026
  • “Simulating Democracy: Housing and Computation in Mexico,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Mexico City (April 17).
  • “Experience vs Structures,” On Archives and Methods Colloquium, organized by Charles Davis (February 6).
  • “Indigenismos and National Identity,” California College of the Arts, invited by Ecem Saricayir (March 18).
2025
  • “Architecture and Internationalism,” Session Co-Chair (with Ecem Saricayir), Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta (April 20).
  • “Land as a Methodology in Architectural History,” University of Texas at Austin, invited by Bryan Norwood (October 30).
2024
  • “The Pursuit of Global Architectural Expertise,” Histories of Architecture and Bureaucracy in Development Contexts Workshop, ETH Zurich (November 21).
  • “Global Housing and the Division of Expert Labor,” Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin (November 9).
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture, DocTalks x CCA, Respondent on “Housing” Panel (February 22).
  • “Global Housing and the Division of Expert Labor,” Public Lecture, University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture (March 26).
  • “Environment Design and Architectural Expertise,” Public Lecture, University of Colorado, Department of Environmental Design (March 4).
  • “Aggregative Expertise: Global Housing in the 1970s,” Public Lecture, University of Miami, Department of Architecture (March 8).
2023
  • “Small Farmers, Big Computers, and the Architecture of Rural Governance,” Buell Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University (April 29).
  • “Building Underground: Networks of Resistance in Buenos Aires,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal (April 13).
2022
  • “Lemmings, Explosions, and Other Population Myths,” History of Architecture and Urbanism Society Workshop, Cornell University (March 10).
  • “1973? Periodization and the Environment, a Response,” Politics of Building a Climate Crisis Symposium, Cornell University (April 22).
2021
  • “The Cybernetic Countryside: Sistema de entorno rural,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh (April 28).
  • “Architecture or Revolution,” Cornell University, invited by Ecem Saricayir (February 15).
2020
  • “All Systems Go: Systems Sciences and Postwar Architectural Discourse,” Divergence in Architectural Research Symposium, Georgia Tech (March 4–5).
2019
  • “Systems of National Development: Housing, Cybernetics, and Self-Organization,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Doctoral Student Midi Conference.
  • “Housing, Technology, and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism,” Government Department, Cornell University, invited by Sabrina Karim (November 7).
2018
  • “Filippo Brunelleschi and Early Pictorial Depictions of Space,” Cornell University, invited by Mary N. Woods (November 9).
  • “Encompassing the Body: Sacred Domes in Florence, Rome, Istanbul, and Agra,” Cornell University, invited by Mary N. Woods (November 14).
  • “Situating 1990s Digital Design Theory within Postwar American Modernism,” Syracuse University, invited by Galo Canizares (December 4).
  • “Postcolonialism and Space,” Institute of Comparative Modernities, Cornell University.
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