Biography

Ph.D. in architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

The investigative and speculative aspect of Gevork Hartoonian’s research in architectural history/theory draws from Walter Benjamin’s drive to save the tradition from its tendency to conform. Rethinking the culture of building, the tectonic in particular, in the purview of prevailing techniques and discourses are essential for Hartoonina’s critical investigation of architectural history.

Hartoonian teaches architectural history and theory and design studio in the Design Program of the Faculty of Arts and Design, and supervises research students. He has taught at the Columbia University and other American schools of architecture.

Books include:

     Architecture and Spectacle (2012)
     The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2011),
     Walter Benjamin and Architecture, ed. (2010), and
     Ontology of Construction (1994), a Korean edition of which was released in 2010.

Research on history and theory of architecture.

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