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Brian McGrath


          










MA Architecture, Princeton University
Associate Professor of Urban Design
Division: 
Parsons The New School for Design
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Born, Springfield, Massachusetts, BA Architecture, Syracuse University,
MA Architecture, Princeton University. Attended the Institute for
Architecture and Urban Studies in New York; Worked with Polshek
Partnership in New York and Franco Purini in Rome, Italy; Fulbright
Senior Scholar in Thailand, 1998-99, Co-Pl, Baltimore Ecosystem Study.   Faculty Fellow at the India China Institute.  Founding Partner, urban-interface, LLC.
Courses:
War, Trade, and Desire: The Conflicting Architectures of Global Cities
Research: Cities/Details
Personal Statement: 
My seven years of architectural education and five years of
professional experience formed the basis for an architecture and urban
design practice inspired by the interdisciplinary art movements in New
York City in the 1970s; political activism around health (AIDS) and
housing rights (Lower East Side) in the 1980s, and an emersion of
digital technologies in the 1990s. I have therefore developed a
philosophy of "urban design in an expanded field" and have used new
media to explore the relationship between design and socio-natural
systems.
Academic Record
Research Interests: 
Urbanization and globalization and the conflicting architecture of
urban design "artifacts" in the 21st century; emergent and self
organizing urban systems; combining remote sensing and GIS technologies
of macro-trends with “close-up” recordings of micro-behaviors.
 
Publications: 
Brian McGrath | List of Publications
Contact Details
Email: 
mcgrath@newschool.edu
Website: 
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