Diane Ghirardo
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Diane Ghirardo is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. She is also the author of several books and essays on architectural history and theory.

Ghirardo received her M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

in 2002.

Books and articles by Ghirardo

  • “Past or Post Modern in Architectural Fashion”. Telos 62 (Winter 1984-85). New York: Telos Press.
  • Architecture After Modernism. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996.
  • Mark Mack. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1994.
  • Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.
  • Building New Communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Dopo il Sogno. Architettura e Città nell'America di oggi. Turin: Allemandi 2008


(1) http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/faculty/profs/ghirardo.html
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