Donald Kunze
Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts, Tenured, Appointed September 1984
DEK4@PSU.EDU
215 Wagner Building
(814) 863-7365
Specializes in critical theory, temporality in architecture, and philosophical aspects of drawing, building, and materiality. His book on the architecture of the imagination introduced the theories of Giambattista Vico as a means of translating phenomenological interests into specific architectural and cultural contexts.
His current work focuses on issues of representation and the relation of drawing to theories of knowledge. Professor Kunze has done work on environmental-behavior relations, perception, urban studies, community design, psychological scaling, use of literary narratives, architecture’s "epistemologies," the sense of place at the regional, local, and micro-space scale, spatial memory systems, the work of Giulio Camillo, John Soane, Aldo Rossi and Daniel Libeskind, festival architecture, philosophy of culture, and semiotics. He designed an architectural "machine" to commemorate the Bicentennial of the French Revolution.
He has published and lectured widely and has served as a guest critic at Penn, SUNY Buffalo, Cranbrook, Univ. of the Arts, Temple, Harvard, RPI, McGill, Minnesota, and Le Centre Europeen de la Reserche Continue (Cite Radieuse Le Corbusier, Briey, France)
Current Teaching
- Fall and Spring 2004:
Arch497, Seminar in Architecture Theory
Arch496, Independent Study
Graduate and 5th-Year Advising
InArt3, “Reception of the Arts”