Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Elizabeth Burns Gamard

Teaching

Design, History, Theory, German Romanticism, Expressionism and Architecture

Administration

• Director of Research, 2005-06
• Associate Dean, 1997-2002
• Second Year Studio Coordinator, 2005-06
• Director of Thesis Programs, 1997-98

Additional Teaching

• Visiting Professor, Brandenburgische Technische Universitaet Cottbus, Germany
• Assistant Professor, Rice University
• Professor, Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Florida at Gainesville
• Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati

Publications (selected)

• Alchemie: The Architecture of German Expressionism (forthcoming)
• “The Bauhaus,” “Tribune Tower Competition,” “Hugo Haering,” “Hans Scharoun,” “Deustcher Werkbund,” “Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna,”“Holocaust Memorial Building,” “Ricola Storage Building, Laufen,” all in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2004
• Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, Princeton Architectural Press, 2000.
• “The Merzbau: Schwitters’ Summa Theologie,” in Stunned.org, 2001
• “We play until death shuts the door,” in Slow Space, ed. Michael Bell and Sze-Tsung Leong, Monacelli Press, 1997
• “Virgil/Beatrice: Remarks on Discursive Thought and Rational Order in Architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 1995
• “Die Kathedrale des erotischen elends,” FACES (Geneva), Spring 1993
• “Response and Responsibility,” CITE (Houston) Spring, 1991

Awards and Honors

• Research Enhancement Fund (for German Expressionist Architecture) 2007
• Favrot Professorship, Tulane University School of Architecture, 2003-2007
• Littoral Arts, Great Britain, 2004
• Soros Foundation, 1993
• Graham Foundation Fellowship, 1993

Lectures and Symposia

• “Kurt Schwitters’ Cathedral of Erotic Misery,” Edmonton Arts, 2007
• “Aufhebung: Kurt Schwitters Merzbau,” Tate Museum, London, 2004
• “Fahrvernugen: the Joy of Driving,” Tulane University, 2003
• “Living Systems: The Spirits of Mies,” Illinois Institute of Technology. 2002
• “Architecture as a Matter of Faith,” University of Louisiana at Lafayette,” 2002
• “Lebensformen: Kurt Schwitters and Mies van der Rohe,” SAH-New Orleans 2001
• “Ryhthmic Jouissance,” Musica da Camera, New Orleans, 2000
• “Museum/Memory: Rebuilding Berlin,” Berlin, Germany 1997
• “The Holocaust Museum,” Healing and the Arts, Houston, Texas 1994