Prof. Florian Urban is Professor of Architectural History and Head of History of Architectural and Urban Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He was born and raised in Munich, Germany, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Berlin, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from MIT. Before joining the Mackintosh School of Architecture, he taught at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin Technical University and worked for the German Federal Institute for Research on Construction, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). Since 2009 he has been the Book Reviews Editor-in-Chief for the journal Planning Perspectives. He is the author, among others, of Neohistorical East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970–1990 (2009), Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing (Routledge, 2012), The New Tenement: Architecture in the Inner City since 1970 (Routledge 2018), and Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (Routledge, 2021).
FICTITIOUS CAPITAL Postmodernism and the Built Environment
The Fourth Annual International Symposium of Avi and Sarah Arenson BUILT HERITAGE RESEARCH CENTER, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
