 | Visual Arts Associate Professor Fields:听Modern architecture and urbanism |
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Biography
Amy Finstein specializes in modern architecture and urbanism in America and Europe. She is interested in how the built environment reflects moments of societal change and modernization at multiple scales, ranging from high-style Modern residences to Art Deco elevated highways to the stories of individual designers and leaders.
Her previous scholarship includes the re-discovery of an early residential design by Bauhaus icons Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, a commission that encapsulates their early years in the U.S., the commodification of their design approach, and the eventual dissolution of their short-lived partnership. She is also interested in how major urban infrastructure projects synthesize changing architectural, technological, and societal norms, a topic reflected in her award-winning book, (Temple University Press 2020). She is a contributing author to the Atlas of Boston History (University of Chicago Press 2019), and has published previously in Winterthur Portfolio, Journal of American History, Journal of Planning History, Preservation Education and Research, and ARRIS: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.听
Her current research focuses on the early twentieth-century career and impact of the first female member of the American City Planning Institute.
Research
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In the News
- 鈥淣ew Stories from Before Displacement,鈥 Blog article, Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library (March 2023)
- Blog article, Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library
- Boston Globe - August 2019-
- 聽聽Student built website