Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Robert A. Gonzalez, Ph.D, RA

Teaching

Design, History, Theory, Latin American, Pan-American and Border Architecture

Additional Teaching

• Senior Lecturer, California College of Arts & Crafts, 2000
• Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-8
• Adjunct Professor, Woodbury University, 1996-8
• Visiting Professor, Arizona State University, 1995-6

Publications (selected)

• “El Faro de Colon: America Latina y el concurso internacional,” Revista ARQ Santiago, Chile, May 2008
• “Unresolved Expressions of Anti-Trujilloism in Santo Domingo,” in Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy and Urban Space in Latin America, ed. Clara Irazabal, Routledge, 2008
• ” ‘Ensalada Tijuana?’ Welcome to Globalization’s Gritty Landscape,” in Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, ed. Jean-Francois Lejeune. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
• “Learning from Las Vegas,” in Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina in L.A., eds, Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc and Raul Villa, Sage Publications, 1999.

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Canadian Center for Architecture Library and Collection Fellowship, 2007
• ACSA Creative Achievement Award (with Rafael Longoria), 2007
• Research Enhancement Fund, $40,000, Tulane University, 2006-7
• Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship, $45,000, 2005-6
• ACSA Faculty Design Award (*with Paul Kariouk), 1998
• “Unbuilt Architecture” National Award, Boston Society of Architecture, (*)1996

Editorial Contributions (selected)

• Founding Editor, Aula: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Americas, 1998-2007
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Architectural Education, 2003-6
• Guest Editor, “Installations by Architects,” JAE Theme Issue, 2005
• Guest Editor, “Awards for Place Design and Place Research, Places, 1998
• Assistant to the Editor, Places, 1997-9

Non-University Service (selected)

• Society of Architectural Historians, Board of Directors, 2007-2010
• The ARCUS Foundation Endowment, Board Member, 2000-2007
• ACSA National Conference Co-Chair, Miami, FL, 2004
• “Import-Export: Latin American Urbanities,” International Conference Co-Chair Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2003

Lectures and Symposia (selected)

• “Pan-Americanism as a Model for Americanizing the Built Environment,” University of Toronto, Canada, 2005
• “Two Monument to the Nation-Continent of America,” ACSA, SE Regional Conference, Clemson, SC, 2005
• “Latino and Latin American Representations,” University of Cincinnati, 2005
• “Back Issues: Journalism, Architecture and Ethnicity,” SAH LA, CA, 1998
• “Historiography and the Internet: In Search of a Latin American Discourse,” Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, 1995
• “Introducing Non-Traditional Issues into the Architectural Curriculum,” AIA Diversity Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1995