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John Lobell         

30 Waterside Plaza, 26D New York, NY 10010 Voice: (212) 679-1935 Cell: 212-688-1217 Email: JohnLobell@aol.com

 

EDUCATION

1967, Enrolled for a Ph.D. in philosophy

The New School for Social Research. Program not completed. Professors included Paul Goodman and Hans Jonas. Faculty advisor was Aaron Gurvitch.

M. Arch., 1966

University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts Degree for independent studies and thesis in architectural and cultural theory under Dean G. Holmes Perkins       

M. Arch., 1965

University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts

Design critics and instructors included Denise Scott Brown, Robert Geddes, Romaldo Giurgola, G. Holmes Perkins, and Robert Venturi. Audited courses with Edmund Bacon, Ian McHarg, and Louis Kahn.

B.A., 1963

University of Pennsylvania, honors major in architecture

                 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

1970-present

Courses, lectures, and workshops at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, the New York Open Center, the New School for Social Research, NYU, Pratt, Parsons, the School of Visual Arts, etc.   Subjects include the arts; writing; design; computer science, graphics, and applications; and culture.   Various conferences.   Also: Nanotechnology with Eric Drexler and Ralph Merkle; computer science with Herb Tesser; mythology with Joseph Campbell; Buddhism with the Dali Lama, Robert Thurman, Lobsang Sampton, and Chogyam Trungpa; shamanism with Michael Harner; and Tai Chi with Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing.  

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture,   Since 1969

Full Professor with tenure since September 1980

Teaching

Teaching has included design, history of architecture (survey courses, contemporary architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kahn and Venturi), architectural theory, transportation and communication, city planning, impact of technology, computers and society.

Administration

Coordinator for history/theory, 1980-92.   Acting Director, Summer 1973.   Chair for Curriculum, Spring 1973.   Chair for Faculty, Fall 1973.

Committees

Provost Search Committee, 1998. Faculty Handbook Committee, 1998. Institute Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-97. President, School of Architecture faculty, 1995-97. Board of Trustees, Education Committee, 1995-96. Academic Senate, 1991-present. Board of Trustees, Development Committee, 1992-93. Faculty Council (Institute), intermittently, 1986-91. Coordinator's Council 1990-92. Educational Planning Council 1992-1998. Principle writer, NAAB accreditation report, 1996, 91, 86. Board of Trustees Student Affairs Committee, 1988. Board of Trustees, Buildings and Grounds Committee, 1984, 2003. Task Force for a Just Community, 1991-93. Student Faculty Council, 1969-72. Various other committees.

Hunter College

Visiting instructor, 1979-80. Course on modern architecture.

 

School of Visual Arts

Visiting instructor, 1969-71. Course on environmental art.

 

CURRENT CONSULTING

Milgo-Bufkin , Brooklyn, N.Y., 1970-88, 1996-present

Architectural consultant; supervising of fabrication of large-scale sculptures for major artists; corporate planning. Product development for AlgoRhythms, complex curved metal based on the higher mathematics of surfaces, created by the architect/morphologist Haresh Lalvani.

 

Timeship , 2000-present

A $300 million complex for the storage of 40,000 cryogenically preserved people traveling to the future. The Architect for the project is Stephen Valentine, and the clients are the owners of Life Extension Foundation.

 

ARCHITECTURAL OFFICES

Ulrich Franzen and Associates, Architects, New York, 1967-69

Research for New Forms of the Evolving City, urban design in Manhattan, under a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. Job captain on three housing projects.

 

Abraham W. Geller , Architect , New York, 1966-67

Designer. Projects included housing, synagogue, mall, interiors.              

 

Harrison and Abramovitz , Architects , New York, 1965

Albany State Capital Mall.

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Web Sites , 1993-present

Designed and managed Web sites and BBS systems for corporate clients.

NetNames USA , 1996-1998

International Internet domain name registration and services. Founding director and officer.

Joseph Campbell Foundation, 1990-95

Member of the Advisory Board, Director of Development, Director of Membership, Foundation newsletter editor,

New York Open Center , 1989-91

Editorial director, New York Open Center/Prentice Hall Books.

Newsletters, 1982-97

Published, wrote, edited, and desktop produced several newsletters.

Arts Magazine, 1968-70

Architectural Contributor.

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

•  Louis I. Kahn: Architecture As Philosophy (Working title), in progress.

•  Joseph Campbell: The Man & His Ideas, Joseph Campbell Foundation, 1993.

•  The Little Green Book:   A Guide to Self-Reliant Living in the '80s. Shambhala Publications, 1981.

•  Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn, Shambhala Publications, 1979.

PUBLICATIONS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

•  "The Philadelphia School: An Architectural Philosophy," with Mimi Lobell in Louis I. Kahn, l'uomo, il maestro, Alessandra Latour, ed., 1986.

•  Master Builders, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1985. Entry on Louis Kahn.

•  The American Academic Encyclopedia, 1982. Entry on Louis Kahn.

Publications: Electronic and Online

•  Journal of Computational and Quantum Architecture (JCQA).   An online journal and informational under development in collaboration with Michael Silver. (In progress)

•  The American Academic Encyclopedia, entry on Louis Kahn. This encyclopedia has been      published on various online services and on CD-ROM.

 

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES

•  "Quantum Issues in Architecture." tarp, No. 1, Spring 2004.

•  "Campbell on Freud and Jung." Joseph Campbell Foundation Newsletter, No. 1, Fall 1993.

•  "A Primer on Joseph Campbell."   Whole Earth Review, Summer 1988.

•  "Architecture and Structures of Consciousness, Pratt Journal of Architecture, Vol II, Spring 1988.

•  " An Interview with John Hejduk," with Mimi Lobell. Pratt Journal of Architecture, Vol I, Fall 1985

•  "Myth in Architecture:   The Work of Alice Aycock."   Skyline, Apr. 1980.

•  "Doric, Ironic, & Labyrinthian: Classical Architecture in America."   Skyline, Feb. 1980.

•  "A Lucid Mystic."   Smithsonian, Jul. 1979. Article on Louis Kahn.

•  "Kahn and Venturi:   An Architecture of Being-in-Context."   Artforum, Feb. 1978.

•  "American Women Architects."   Artforum, Summer 1977.

•  "The Beaux-Arts: A Reconsideration of Meaning in Architecture."   AIA Journal, Nov. 1975.

•  "Towards A Zero Energy Architecture."   On Site On Energy, Fall 1974.   Article on architecture      and information theory.

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS

(by title and author of book reviewed)

AIA Journal:  

•  Le Corbusier, von Moos, Mar. 1980.

•  Borromini, Blunt, Jan. 1980.  

•  The Drawings of Louis Henry Sullivan, Sprague, Jul. 1979.   

•  Louis I. Kahn, Ronner, Jul. 1978.      

•  Dimensions, Moore, Jun. 1977.  

•  Greene and Greene, Makinson, Oct. 1977.  

•  Boull? e and Visionary Architecture, Rosenau, Feb. 1977.  

•  Louis I. Kahn, Giurgola; 18 Years With Architect Louis I. Kahn, Komendant, Jul. 1976.

•  Architecture & Utopia, Tafuri, Oct. 1976.

Quadrant:

•  Inner Reaches of Outer Space , Campbell, 1988.

Skyline:

•  The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, The Oregon Experiment, Alexander, Feb. 1980.  

•  White Towers, Hirshorn & Izenouer, Sept. 1979.

Smithsonian:  

•  My Works and Days, Louis Mumford, Sept. 1979.

Progressive Architecture:  

•  Multistory Housing , Schnitt; High Density Living , Jensen, Jan. 1967.     

•  Highways and Our Environment, Robinson; Autokind vs. Mankind, Schneider; Beyond the Automobile, Stone, Sept. 1971.

Arts Magazine:

•  Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Venturi, Feb. 68.

•  Matrix of Man, Moholy-Nagy, Dec./Jan. 1969.  

•  Beyond Modern Sculpture, Burnham, Nov. 1968.

 

CONFERENCES AND PAPERS

•  "How Culture Reveals Structures of Consciousness," paper presented at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2004, organized by The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, June 2004.

•  Presentations at "A Parliament of the World's Religions," Chicago, August-September, 1993.

•  Presentations at "A Mythological Toolbox," a program presented by the Joseph Campbell Foundation at Esalen Institute, CA. March, 1993, 94, 95.

•  Presentation at "Passing the Torch," a program presented by the Joseph Campbell Foundation at The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. January, 1993.

•  Participated in a conference, "Building a Free Media in the CIS," Sochi, Russia.   American and Russian journalist, publishers, politicians, and academics. Spring 1992.

•  "Design and the Powerful Logics of the Mind's Deep Structures." DMG-DRS Journal, Design Research and Methods, Vol. 9, No. 3, Jul.-Sept. 1975.

•  "A Unified Theory of Transportation and Communication." The International Symposium on Urban Housing and Transportation, Wayne State Univ. Spring 1975.

 

LECTURES

2004: Judson College, Illinois. Pratt Institute, New York.

1998: Beaux Arts Society. Brooklyn Museum Architectural Film Festival.

1994: Hampton University, Virginia.

1993: Louisiana Tech, Ruston. University of New Mexico, Albuquere. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Texas Tech, Lubbock.

1989-92: Various lectures at the New York Open Center.         

1992: Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. Hammons School of Architecture, Drury College, Springfield Missouri. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

1991: University of Detroit Mercy. University of Manitoba. Long Island Chapter AIA.

1987: Syracuse University, Regional ACSA.

1986   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.   Steelcase, N.Y.  

1985: Washington University, St. Louis (Regional ACSA conference).   University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City.

1984: The Catholic University of America, Washington D. C.   A.I.R. Gallery, NY.

1983: Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.   Pratt Institute, Brooklyn N.Y.

1982: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

1980: UC Berkeley.   UC Los Angeles.   USC Los Angeles.   Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.   Esalen Institute.   University of Nebraska, Lincoln.   Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.   HLW, N.Y.

1979: University of Detroit.   The Graham Foundation.

1978: Association of Architectural Librarians, New York.   EDRA 9, University of Arizona.   Lawrence Institute of Technology, Southfield, Michigan.

1977: New York University.   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.   Kent State University, Ohio.   University of Idaho.

1976: The Architectural League of New York.

1974: Energy and Evolution Conference, University of Texas at Austin.   Design Methods Conference, Berkeley.

1968: The School of Visual Arts.   Columbia University.

1967: The Architectural League of New York.

 

EXHIBITIONS

1971: The Architecture of Speed: Form, Function and the Racing Motorcycle. With Jonathan Morse. Scheduled showing at the New York Cultural Center. Show did not materialize.

1970: Words, a collaborative media, by Bud Wirtschafter, Loeb Student Center, NYU.

1967: Environment IV, Corridors, The Architectural League of New York. Entry with Michael Steiner in Trophies, Tombstones and Monuments, The Museum of Contemporary Crafts.

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS  

2002: Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant.

1998: Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant.

1985-86: Title III grants through Pratt Institute for computer studies

1980: Graham Foundation grant.

1968: Grant awarded from the J. Clawson Mills Award of the Architectural League for the funding of the 1968-69 lecture series.

1967: Grants awarded for financing Environment IV, Corridors at The Architectural League from the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the League, the Kaplan Fund, and the American Federation of Arts.   New York State Scholar Incentive Award.

 

PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS

The Architectural League of New York , 1967-present

 

1973-74, Member of the Board. 1970-73, member scholarships and awards committee. 1973, Chair of Scholarship and Awards Committee. 1968-70, Chair of

Current Works Committee. 1969, Chair of the Nominating Committee.

Shows curated as Chair of the Current Works Committee:

•  Bruce Goff Show, first major show of Goff's work, January 1970

•  Dial-a-Poem, Winter 1969

•  Hyperspaces by Raimund Abraham, February 1969

•  Street Works, October 1969

•  Urban Design New York, May 1969

•  James Lee Byars participatory events of communal clothing, Sept. 1968

College Art Association , 1997

Modern Language Association , 1993-94

 

PERSONAL

Widowed. Married 1965 to 2001 to the late Mimi Lobell, architect and professor at Pratt Institute. No children.