AnnMarie Brennan is Senior Lecturer of Design Theory in the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne. She teaches architectural history, theory and design studio subjects and supervises PhD candidates.
Her research focuses on the history and theory of 20th and 21st-century design and architecture, with focused interests into the topics of: media studies and architecture, the political economy of design, machine culture, design utopias and fictions, the history of systems theory in design, and the history of computing in design.
Some of her publications include the Yale School of Architecture journal Perspecta 32: Resurfacing Modernism (MIT Press) and the book Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy (Princeton Architectural Press), co-edited with Beatriz Colomina and Jeannie Kim. She has published articles in periodicals such as AA Files, Interstices, Journal of Design History, Design and Culture, Candide: Journal of Architectural Knowledge, and Inflection: Journal of the Melbourne School of Design. She was an editorial board member for the Journal of Architectural Education (2015-2018) and has served as an Associate Editor. She is currently the academic advisor for Inflection: Journal of the Melbourne School of Design.
Dr Brennan curated and organised many exhibitions and conferences on design topics and figures. These include: the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand SAHANZ: Gold, 2016, "The Reluctant Master: a symposium to honour the life and work of Romalo Giurgola," at the Melbourne School of Design, "Discipline Building: a brief history of the PhD in Architecture," at the Princeton School of Architecture," "Anna Castelli Ferrieri: Architecture and Design," at the Chicago Anthenaeum, and "Celebrating an Idea: Fifty Years of Perspecta," and "Kaufland: Retail Space in the Former Eastern Germany," both at Yale University.
Dr Brennan received her professional architectural degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (B.A.1993, B.Arch 1994) and continued her graduate education at Yale University School of Architecture with a Masters of Environmental Design (M.E.D. 2001). At Princeton University she earned a Master of Art in 2003 and her Ph.D. in 2011.
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FEATURED Book Chapter
The work of design and the design of work: Olivetti and the political economy of its early computers.
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Investigation Of Curves Using Reverse Engineering For Historical Design Analysis
Internal Research Grant
Review: Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale, by Lea-Catherine..
Journal article
Perspecta and the Mediatic Manufacture of a Postmodern American Architecture
Journal article
An Architecture for the Mind: OZ Magazine and the Technologies of the Counterculture
Journal article
Dymaxion House. Ship Shape
Book Chapter
PULSA: The Affective Art of Novel Intelligent Environments
Conference Proceedings
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Additional Information
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant for the conference, "Discipline Building: A Short History of the Architecture Ph.D. Program." 2004
- (Co-recipient) Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant for the book, "Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy," 2003
- (Co-recipient) Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant for the publication, "Perspecta 32: Resurfacing Modernism," 2000
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Woodrow Wilson Scholar Fellowship
Citation of Special Recognition, Carter Manny Award
Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship in Architecture
Richard D. Cramer Fellowship
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
Parenjpe Memorial Award
Travel Scholarship
Woodrow Wilson Scholar Fellowship
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Senior Lecturer In Design Theory
Architecture, Building And Planning
Association Of Collegiate Schools Of Architecture
ACSA
Society Of Architectural Historians Of Australia And New Zealand
SAHANZ
Education
Education
DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY
Princeton University
MASTER OF ARTS
Princeton University
MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Yale University
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
The Catholic University of America
BACHELOR OF ARTS & SCIENCES
The Catholic University of America