Sean Keller

Office

Room 108
3410 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60616

Office Hours

By appointment

Phone 312-567-3269
Fax 312.567.5820
skeller1@iit.edu

Courses taught

ARCH 321/501 Contemporary Architecture
ARCH 502/3 Advanced Topics in History and Theory
ARCH 597 Special Problems
ARCH 602 Crafting a Dissertation
ARCH 691Doctoral Research

Expertise

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. His work has been recognized by a Warhol Grant and a Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism. His next book focuses on the architecture, art, and landscape of the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Professor Keller is an invited speaker throughout the United States and Europe. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, 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 a trustee of the Graham Foundation.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University
M. Arch., Princeton University
B.A. cum laude, Princeton University

Teaching Experience

Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago, 2017
Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, 2006-7
Director of Architecture, Career Discovery Program, Harvard University, 2000-2

Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research

Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

“Aleatory Architectures,” with Heinrich Jaeger, lead article for Granular Matter (Springer, 2016).

“Ways About Error,” Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal 46: Error (MIT Press, 2013).

“Beauty, Genius, and Epigenesis: The Kantian Aesthetics of Computational Architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education 65:2 (April 2012).

“Architecture After Drawing,” Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 1/2012 (Spring 2012).

“The Anxieties of Autonomy: Eisenman from Cambridge to House VI,” in Atomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture (Routledge, 2012).

“Playing the Field: On Computational Architecture and Postwar Abstraction,” Artforum (Summer 2011).
“Well-tempered Piano” [on the museums of Renzo Piano], Artforum (Summer 2009).

“Navigating Systems” [on R. Buckminster Fuller], Artforum (November 2008).

“Fenland Tech: Architectural Science in Postwar Cambridge,” Grey Room 23 (Spring 2006).