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Thomas Mical

E-mail Address
dr_mical@hotmail
Telephone
405-325-2444
Thomas Mical
Assistant Professor
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology: Ph.D., 1998
Georgia Institute of Technology: M.Sc., 1992
Harvard University: M.Arch., 1990
University of Florida: B.Design (Hons.), 1987
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate and Graduate Design
Architectural History
Architectural Theory
Architecture and the Moving Image
Teaching Experience
James Madison University: Wampler Professor of Art, 2002
Technical University of Vienna: Guest Professor, 2001
University of Oklahoma: Assistant Professor, 1999-2004
Illinois Institute of Technology: Visiting Assistant Professor, 1998-1999
University of Chicago: Instructor, 1996
Georgia Institute of Technology: Instructor / Teaching Fellow, 1990-1995
University of Florida: Visiting Assistant Professor, 1991
Boston Architectural Center: Instructor, 1989
Professional Experience
Murphy/Jahn Architects, Chicago, 1997-1998
SOM, Chicago, 1996-1997
Chicago Parks District, 1995
Dr. Takefumi Aida, Tokyo, 1994
Selected Presentations + Publications
- Surrealism and Architecture (book in progress)
- Interdisciplinary Spatial Practices of the Russian Avant-Garde (book in progress)
"Guerilla Architecture," JAE, 2002
"Berlin's Cinematic Spaces: Dialectical Analepses and Fugues," Spectator (USC),
2002
"The Space of Architectural History [after Blanchot]" - Baltimore: ACSA, 2001
"Surrealist Thought and Practice in Modern Architecture" - Toronto: Society of
Architectural Historians, 2001
"Guerilla Architecture" - Springfield, MO: Drury University, 2000
"Aldo Rossi" | "John Hejduk" - Chicago: Encyclopedia of 20th C. Architecture, 2000
"A Soluble Fish: Surrealism as Modern Architectural Thought" - Portland,OR:
University of Oregon, 1999
"The Eternal Recurrence of l’effroyablement ancien" - Atlanta: Public Domain, 1999
"Urban In[ter]vention after Blade Runner" - LA: Now Time, 1993
"The Stealth Landscape" - Atlanta: Public Domain, 1993
"The Name of the Rose: Architectonics|Text" - Charlotte, NC: University of
North Carolina, 1991
Research Areas
History of Modern Thought in Architecture
Surrealism, Russian Avant-Grade
Philosophy of Architecture
Architecture and Cinema
Research Grants
Fulbright, "Blurred Space: Media-Architecture" Bratislava 2002
NEH Summer Institute, "Modernism and Psotmodernism in Japan," LA 2002
Fulbright, "Urban Planning in Germany," Berlin 2001
OU Interdisciplinary Research Incentive Program, "Critical-Digital Analysis of the
Russian Avant-garde," 2000
Getty Research Grant "Expressionist Cinema Design," Getty Center, CA 1994
DAAD Dissertation Grant, "Nietzschean Thought in Modern Architecture,"
Humboldt University Berlin, 1993