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 leffroyablement 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
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