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Faculty » Patricia Morton
Faculty Club, U.C. Santa Barbara
Charles Moore (architect)
Santa Barbara, California 1969
Associate Professor & Chair
Office: 221 Arts Building
Phone: (951) 827-2698
E-mail: patricia.morton@ucr.edu
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of specialization: European and American Architectural History 1880-1980; Japanese domestic architecture; Architectural, urban, and Post-colonial theory.
Patricia A. Morton is Chair and Associate Professor of architectural history in the History of Art Department, University of California , Riverside. She has received grants and fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other institutions. Her book on the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Paris, Hybrid Modernities , was published in 2000 by MIT Press and in Japan by Brücke in 2002. Her current research focuses on "bad taste" in 1960s architecture and its relation to postmodern architecture. She is editing a volume of essays on taste and popular culture in the 1960s (forthcoming, Blackwell Press). She has published widely on architectural history and issues of race, gender and marginality. Recently, she has presented her work in Paris, Stockholm, Ankara, Boston, and San Francisco. In fall 2007, she hosted an international conference, Ambivalent Geographies: Architectural History and Empire , that will interrogate interrogate the persistence of geographic-based master narratives in architectural history. She is a former director of the Culver Center of the Arts, UC Riverside.