Sean Keller Sean Keller

Professor Keller is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, with a focus on the relationship of architecture and technology after 1945.

He is the author of Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and has written for numerous anthologies and journals, including Critical Inquiry, Artforum, Perspecta, and Grey Room. His work has been recognized by a Warhol Grant and a Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism. He is currently completing a book, co-authored with Christine Mehring, on the architecture, art, and landscape of the 1972 Olympics in Munich, to be published by Yale University Press.

Professor Keller has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and is a former trustee of the Graham Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the University of Chicago, where he has been a fellow of both the Neubauer Collegium and the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He is an invited speaker throughout the United States and Europe. Keller served for nine years as an Associate Dean of IIT’s College of Architecture and was the Director of Architecture for Harvard’s Career Discovery Program for three years.

Professor Keller holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and M.Arch. and A.B. degrees from Princeton University.