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Donald Kunze
Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts, Tenured, Appointed September 1984

Education

  • Bachelor of Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1970
  • Master of Arts in Geography, Georgia State University, 1974
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1983

Teaching Experience

  • Laboratory Instructor, Cultural and Physical Geography, 1974-1976
  • Science, Technology, and Society course 1983
  • Architecture studios and seminars, 1984-present
  • General Education arts seminars and criticism courses, 1990-present

Professional activities

  • Reviewer, JAE, 1987-1997, 2001-to present
  • Occasional reviewer MIT press, Penn State Press

Invited Lecturer:

  • Louisiana State University, "Revisiting the Uncanny" (March 2008).
  • Lehigh University: College of Arts and Architecture, "The Voice in the Landscape and in the Wall" (February
    2007).
  • Lebanese-American University, Beirut, “The Sympomatic Discourse” (Spring 2004).
  • Penn State University: School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, “Finding New Paradigms within a System of Graphic Notation” (February 2002).
  • Louisiana State University: Paula Manship Lecturer, “Boundary Language” (Fall 2001).
  • Parsons School of Design: “False Clues: Boundaries of the Mystery and the Mystery of the Boundary,” (Fall 2000).
  • Technical University of Athens: “Thinking Without Books: The Uses of Boundaries and Form in the Philosophy of Giambattista Vico” (Spring 1999).
  • N. C. State University: “Boundary Language Made Almost Simple,” (April 1999).
  • Yale University: “Kats, Brides, and Heroes,” Architecture Graduate Program (Spring 1998).
  • International Symposium on the Culture of the Metropolis (Macau). “Intransitivity and Cultural Syncretism in Macau” (Fall 1998).
  • Temple University: “The Secret of the Premise” (Fall 1996).
  • Association of Architects of Macau: “Civic Place” (Spring 1994).
  • University of the Arts: “Thin Architecture, Thick Banquets” (Winter 1993)
  • SUNY Buffalo: “Architecture and Cuisine” (November 1992).
  • Temple University: Seminar Presentation, “Metascape,” Summer Program for Architectural Studies in Philadelphia.
  • Temple University: “Borgesian Geography” (July 1992).
  • Temple University: “Evil Enchantment” (February 1992).
  • University of Pennsylvania PhD Program: “The Role of Time in Architecture” (February 1992).
  • University of the Arts: “Dog Architecture” (Fall 1990).
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art: three lectures on mensuration in architecture (Fall 1990).
  • Rhode Island School of Design: “Four Things in the Nature of Architecture” (Fall 1989).
  • SUNY Buffalo: “The Nature of Architecture” (Fall 1989).
  • Georgia Institute of Technology: “The Breath of Stone” (Winter 1988).
  • University of Minnesota: “The Architecture of Reading / The Reading of Architecture” (Spring 1987).
  • University of the Arts: “Teratology of Civic Place” (Fall 1986).
  • Harvard Graduate School of Design: “Chiastic Practices in Architecture” and “The Role of the Monster in Architecture” (Fall 1986).

Seminars/Symposia Organized

  • Symposium on Synesthesia: Role of Synesthesia in Architecture, Landscape, and the Arts, PSU, 2003.
  • Boundary Language Seminar: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, 2002.
  • Boundary Language Seminar: IDP workshop on boundary language; co-directed with Christopher Diehl, Cleveland Center for Urban Studies, 2002.
  • Boundary Language Seminar: Virginia Tech. at Alexandria (Ph.D. program, M. Frascari), 2002.
  • Sleuth Architecture Weekend: film, architecture theory, and boundary language for alumni and interested others. Summer 1999.
  • Sleuth Architecture Weekend: film, architecture theory, and installations/video for alumni and interested others. Summer 1998.
  • “Rear Window Weekend” for architecture alumni and interested others, Summer 1997.
  • Symposium: “Cynicism/Kynicism and the Retreat from Meaning in Post-Modern Architecture,” Penn State University. Spring 1991.
  • Symposium: “Commonplace Conference on the Philosophy of Place,” Penn State University, Fall 1986.
  • Special Session: “Camillo and the Illusion of Collective Memory,” Semiotic Society Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio Special Session: “On the Role of Philosophy in Geography,” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meetings, Ottawa (1982).
  • Special Seminar: “Food, Art, Desire,” special series of Seminar Zero, Department of Integrative Arts, (proposed Spring 1993).
  • Special Seminar: “Seminar Zero, “ on topics connecting theories of art, philosophy, and epistemology; Department of Integrative Arts, 1991-present.
  • Special Seminar: “Seminar on Architecture and Technology, “ Department of Architecture, 1987.
  • Special Seminar: “Seminar on the Modern Movement, “ with Wesley Wei, 1984.
  • Special Seminar: “Faculty-Student Seminars on Philosophy and Geography,” Department of Geography, PSU, 1980-82.
  • Session Chair: ACSA International Conference, Helsinki, Summer 2003.
  • Session Chair: ACSA Regional Conference (SUNY Buffalo), Spring 1996.
  • Session Chair: International Symposium on Vico and Joyce, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia, 1985.

Grants and Awards

  • Spring 2008: Nadine Carter Russell Chair, College of Design, Louisiana State University.
  • 1998. Project Innovation Funds, Continuing and Distance Education, for Sleuth Architecture Weekend ($5000).
  • 1998. General Education Course Enhancement Fund to develop InArt 3 ($11,000).
  • 1997-98: Vernon F. Shogren Endowment recipient, for development of polythetic methods in architecture, landscape, and art ($7556).
  • 1997: Schreyer Foundation Fellow; support for developing interactive and collaborative components for the ArtSeminar.
  • 1994: Continuing and Distance Education grant to develop general education arts course using interactive technologies.
  • 1993: Sabbatical leave to work on food-related research.
  • 1991: Center for Academic Computing grant to initiate development of interactive course materials in the arts (stage one, consulting support).
  • 1989: Office of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Architecture, School of Business Administration, Departments of Architecture, History, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, and l'Alliance Française grants to construct a machine recollecting the events of the French Revolution ($19,000).
  • 1988: Faculty Research Grant, to prepare for a “Year of Camillo,” relation of memory and civic space ($1000).
  • 1986: Research Initiation Grant to study the architectural and philosophic value of civic space ($2800).
  • 1986: Faculty Research Grant to cover development of study of Vico and architecture ($2400).
  • 1986: Continuing Education, College of Arts & Architecture, Departments of Architecture, Geography, and Philosophy grants for an interdisciplinary conference on place as a philosophical concept ($8400).
  • 1985: Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies grant to study the county courthouse in Pennsylvania, with Don Leon ($1200).
  • 1985: Faculty Research Grant to participate in an international symposium on Vico/Joyce in Venice ($1200).
  • 1983: E Willard Miller Award for best graduate paper, Department of Geography ($400).
  • 1977-78: Fellow, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Humanities, Penn State University.

Publications

  • Book: (author), Thought and Place: The Architecture of Eternal Places in the Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (New York: Peter Lang, 1987).
  • Book : (co-editor, with David Black and John Pickles) Commonplaces: Essays on the Nature of Place (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989).
  • Part of Book (forthcoming): "Architecture and Its Doubles: Interpolation, the Fourth Wall, and Suture in the Topography of Fear," Bechir Kenzari, ed., Architecture and Violence: Reception and Reproduction (Barcelona: Actar Press, forthcoming).
  • Part of Book (forthcoming): "Concealment, Delay and Topology in the Creation of Wondrous Drawing," Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale, Bradley Starkey, eds., From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (London: Routledge, 2008).
  • Part of Book (forthcoming): "Giambattista Vico," encyclopedia article for The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography , ed. Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift (London: Elsevier, anticipated 2008).
  • Part of Book: “Hearths and Doors,” in Architecture and the Culinary Arts, ed. P. Singley and J. Horwitz  (Cambridge: MIT, 2004).
  • Part of Book: “Stopstopstopstopstop,” Gravity, Pamphlet Architecture 25, ed. J. Cathcart et al. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
  • Part of Book (exhibition catalog): “Wieder/Zurück! The Gratuitousness of Weight,” Roving Pictures (Buffalo, NY: Burchfield-Penny Art Center, 2003).
  • Part of Book: “The Luck/Look of Macau,” Culture of Metropolis in Macau, ed. A. Chen (Macau: Insitituto Cultural, 2001)
  • Part of Book: “Poché,” Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, ed. D. Friedman and N. Lahiji (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997).
  • Part of Book: “Architecture as a Site of Reception, Part II:Sea-Food and Vampires,” Chora 2 (Montréal: McGill-Queens Press, 1996).
  • Part of Book: “Criticism as Dimension: The Idiot as Artist / The Idiot as Critic,” The Ends of Theory, ed. J. Herron (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 1996).
  • Part of Book: “Architecture as a Site of Reception, Part I: Dimensionality of the Infra-Thin,” Chora 1 (Montréal: McGill-Queens Press, 1994).
  • Part of Book: “Festival Architecture at the End of the World,” in Work+Text (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1991).
  • Part of Book: “The Role of Sublime Type in Architecture,” Type and the (Im)Possibilities of Convention, Midgård 2 (1991).
  • Part of Proceedings: “Center Everywhere, Periphery Nowhere: A Screen Theory of Architecture,” Contribution and Confusion: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference, Helsinki, Finland (Washington DC: ACSA, 2004).
  • Part of Proceedings: “Theory of the Metropolis,” La Città Nuova, proceedings of ACSA International Conference, Rome (Washington DC: ACSA, 1999).
  • Part of Proceedings: “Kynical Utopia: Architectural Machines as Enlightenment Critique,” Space, Time, and Simultaneity in Utopia (Rome: U. Rome, 1992).
  • Part of Proceedings: “Image Against Representation: Vico's Architecture of the Sublime,” in A Chen and J Robinson, eds., Reflections on Representation, Proceedings of “Reflections on Representations” (Buffalo: School of Planning and Architecture, SUNY Buffalo, 1991).
  • Part of Proceedings: “The Delirium of History,” Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, 1988.
  • Part of Proceedings: “The Role of the Monster in Architectural Production and Interpretation,” Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, 1985.
  • Part of Report: “A Symbolism of the Center: The Cultural Significance of the Courthouse, Its Grounds, and Its Place in the Townscapes of Pennsylvania,” and “Symmetries of Time and Style: The Historic Significance of the Courthouse in Pennsylvania,” Study of the County Courthouses of Pennsylvania (University Park, PA: Department of Architecture, PSU, 1981).
  • In-House Publication: “Preface to Study in the Ecological Neighborhood,” Design and Community, (Raleigh, NC: School of Design, NCSU, 1970).
  • Article: "Minding the Gap in Architectural Speculation," Journal of Architectural Education 61:1 (September
    2007): 54-61.
  • Article: "Giambattista Vico's Big Architectural Adventure," Built Environment 31, 1 (2005): 49-59.
  • Article: "From Babel to Hitchcock: Suture, Interpolation, and Absence in the Formation of Architectural
    Meaning," Intersight 7, ed. Keith Johnson (2004): 187-200.
  • Article: “The Exhibition as Art Form: Twists and Third Forms,” Newsline Online: Columbia University Architecture Planning Preservation, Spring 2001
  • Article: “Evan Douglis, The Exhibition as Art Form: Twists and third Forms,” Newsline Online, Columbia University (Spring 2001): 5.
  • Article: “Alcestis Backstory,” Potential Architecture Journal (web), www.waac.vt.edu/paj/. 1999.
  • Article: “Liquid Assets: An Installation by Evan Douglis,” Newsline Online, Columbia University Architecture/Planning Newsletter (Spring 1999): 6.
  • Article: “The Internal Symmetry of Luck in Macau,” Arquitectura, Revista da Associaçäo dos Arquitectos de Macau 10 (Agosto 1995): 8-12.
  • Article: “The Thickness of the Past: The Metonymy of Possession,” Intersight, 3 (1995): 39-46.
  • Article: “The Strange Love of Dystopia,” in Art Papers, Atlanta.
  • Sidebar: commentary in “Emerging Talent: Wesley Wei,” Progressive Architecture (February 1992): 79.
  • Article: “From Either/Or to Both/And: A Response to 'Architecture, Lamp or Mirror?’” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (1991), 70-73.
  • Article: “Four Things in the Nature of Architecture,” Intersight , Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, 1 (1990): 18-29.
  • Article: “Skiagraphy and the Ipsum of Architecture,” Architecture and Shadow, Via XI (1990): 62-75.
  • Article: “Prolegomena to Any Future Dog Architecture,” Fifth Column, The Canadian Student Journal of Architecture 7, 3 (1989): 26-29.
  • Article: “Architecture as Reading: Virtuality, Secrecy, Monstrosity,” Journal of Architectural Education 41 (1989): 28-37. Articles: “Apotrope” and “Briefly Noted,” in D Libeskind, ed., New Observations, special issue on architecture (1987).
  • Article: “Commentary on Architectural Education,” Journal of Architectural Education, Jubilee Issue, 40 (1987): 36-37.
  • Article: (co-authored with Wesley Wei) “The Vanity of Architecture: Topical Thinking and the Practice of Discontinuity,” Via 8 (1986): 54-69.
  • Review: of A Rossi, The Architecture of the City and A Scientific Autobiography, for Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design) 3, 10 (1983): 357-58.
  • Review: of G Tagliacozzo, ed., Vico and Marx: Affinities and Contrasts, for Architecture and Planning B (Planning and Design) 2, 3 (September 1984): 361-62.
  • Article in Reply: “Commentary on ‘Metaphorical Vision,’” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 73, 1 (March 1983): 153-56.
  • Article in Reply: “Giambattista Vico as a Philosopher of Place: Comments on the Recent Article by Mills,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 8 (1983): 237-48.
  • Article: “The Interrupted Gaze: Art and Folly in Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas,’” Les Bonnes Feuilles 7 (Spring 1978): 4-23.

Architectural Experience

  • Architectural Design: Six Associates, Asheville, NC (1964); Toombs, Amisano, and Wells, Atlanta (1970-1971); William Daugherty & Assoc., Atlanta (1971-73); John Phelps, Atlanta (1973). Architecture Research: Courthouse Survey, Dept. of Architecture PSU (1980-1981). Voluntary Community Organizations, Atlanta (1971-1973). Analysis of play ecologies, Wndell, NC (1970). Recent: West Coast Gateway Competition; exhibited (1988), Architectural design and site planning, senior citizen housing, Chesapeake, Maryland (1989).

Presentations

  • 2004: College Art Association, “The Structure of Chiasmus,” Art of Diagrams / Diagramming Art, Seattle, Washington.
  • 2003: Intimate Metropolis Conference, “Rear Window as the   Inverse of the Tower of Babel,” Architecture Association, London.
  • 2003: Association of American Geographers, “Screen Theory,” poster session, Annual Meetings, New Orleans.
  • 2003: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry, “An Image Theory of Architecture,” ACSA International Conference, Helsinki.
  • 2002: College Art Association, “The Where of Art,” Free Radicals, Philadelphia.
  • 2002: Conference on Hopscotch, “Hip Hop as a Study Method,” Virginia Tech. Alexandria Center.
  • 2001: An Alchemical and Material Symposium, “Alcestis Backstory,” Virginia Tech. Alexandria Center.
  • 2001: Group for Early Modern Culture Studies Conference, “Vico/Lacan,” Philadelphia.
  • 2000: Magical Realism, “Boundary Language: Techniques and Applications,” Virginia Tech Alexandria Center.
  • 1999: “Theory of the Metropolis,”  La Città Nuova, ACSA International Conference, Rome.
  • 1998: International Symposium on Joyce/Rome, “Emblematic Truths in Joyce and Vico,” James   Joyce Society, Rome.
  • 1998: International Symposium on the Culture of Metropolis, “The Luck/Look of Macau,” Macau.
  • 1996: Eastern Communications Association, “Gastronomic Metaphors and the Invisible Spaces of Architecture,” New York.
  • 1996: Eighteenth Century Society, “Semiramide,” Austin, Texas.
  • 1995: Open and Closed Representation, “The Silence of Drawings,” Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.
  • 1993: Association for Integrative Studies, “The Role of the Fantastic in General Arts Education,” Wayne State University, Detroit.
  • 1991: Conference on Representation, “Image Against Representation: Vico’s Architecture of the Sublime,” Buffalo.
  • 1991: International Symposium on the Architecture of Macau, “The Topography of Macau,” Macau.
  • 1990: Association for Integrative Studies, “Syncretism in the Arts,” St. Anselm College, Vermont.
  • 1990: ACSA Southeast Regional Conference, “Filmic contributions to Architectural Understanding,” Washington DC.
  • 1990: Ends of Theory Conference, “Criticism as Distance: The Artist as Idiot / The Critic as Idiot,” Wayne State University, Detroit.
  • 1989: Space, Time, and Simultaneity in Utopia, “Kynical Utopia: Architectural Machines as Enlightenment Critique,” Rome.
  • 1988: Semiotic Society of America, “The Delirium of History,” Cincinnati.
  • 1987: Conference on Typology and the Possibilities of Convention, “The Role of Sublime Type in Architecture,” University of Minnesota.
  • 1985: Semiotic Society of America, “The Role of the Monster in Architectural Production and Interpretation,” Reading, PA.
  • 1985: Vico/Joyce Symposium, “Knowledge and Grace: Place as a Means of Thought in Vico and Joyce,” Venice.
  • 1984: Utopia Society, “Dystopian Thought and Humanistic Vision,” St. Louis.
  • 1984: Association of American Geographers, “Memory, Liminality, and Place in the Architecture and Critical Writings of Aldo Rossi,” Washington, DC.
  • 1983: Utopia Society, “The Daemonic Architecture of Common Places,” Indiana, PA.
  • 1983: Association of American Geographers, “Michel Serres and the Role of the Parasite in the Creation of Civic Space,” Cincinnati.
  • 1983: Aesthetics Seminar, “Wisdom, Madness, and Place,” Penn State University.
  • 1983: Values Symposium: “Architecture as Rhetoric,” Penn State University, 1983.
  • 1982: Canadian Association of Geographers, “Humanities and Criticism: Looking to the Imagination,” Ottawa.
  • 1980: Association of American Geographers: “Small Worlds: The Miniature and Its Role in Aesthetic Perception, the Appreciation of Place, and Landscape Criticism,” Louisville.
  • 1979: Philosophy of Ignorance Seminar: “Vico's Concept of Ignorance,” Penn State University.
  • 1979: Association of American Geographers: “Landscape and Memory: A Basis for a Humanistic Approach to Landscape Criticism,” Philadelphia.
  • 1978: Vico/Venezia Conference: “Vico's Triad, The Synergy of Memory in the New Science,” Venice.
  • 1978: Association of American Geographers, “Taking the Humanities Seriously: Geographic Use of Fictional Literature Reconsidered,” New Orleans.
  • 1977: Association of American Geographers, “Fools in the Landscape: A Vichian Approach to Wilderness and Personality,” Windsor, Ontario.
  • 1976: Association of American Geographers, “Borgesian Geography: An Introduction,” Fredericksburg, Virginia.