Solmaz Kive
Ph.D. in Design and Planning; Trend: History of Architecture; University of Colorado
M.Arch. in History and Theory of Architecture; McGill University
M.Arch. in Architectural Engineering; Shahid Beheshti University
I am interested in the political dimension of architecture. My research investigates the built environment as well as its representations and theories in relation to the practices of identity. I am particularly interested in three venues through which the identities of the self and its “others” are constructed and reenacted: museums/exhibitions, architectural history, and hostile design. The nature of this research requires close interaction with other disciplines, such as art history, museum studies, cultural geography, and philosophy. Along with more conventional methods, I also use different tools of digital humanities.
publication
“Beautified Brutality: Mapping Eugene’s Hostile Design,” Teaching and Learning Anthropology (2024).
“Designing Out: A Framework for Studying Hostile Architecture,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 112th Annual Meeting, (2024).
“The Neutral Frame of the Global History,” in “Roundtable: Australasia and the Global Turn in Architectural History, “Journal of the Society of Architectural Historian (JSAH), Vol. 82, No. 3 (2023): 263-65.
"Architectural History Other-Wise: A Practice of Uncovering Implicit Bias," The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, No 22 (2023).
“A Digital Method of Inquiry into the Structural Bias of Architectural Surveys” in Perspectives on Data, edited by Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago (2022).
“Ethnography at the Foundation of Architectural Survey,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 110th Annual Meeting: Empower (2022).
“The Survey of World Architecture and Digital Tools,” ACSA 110th Annual Meeting: Empower (2022).
“National Museum and Religious Identity,” in Steward Hoover (ed.), The Media and Religion: The Global View, De Gruyter, (2021): 105-124.
“The Order of Things in James Fergusson’s Histories of Architecture,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 108th Annual Meeting (2020).
“From Nature to Culture; the ‘Other’ at two New York Museums,” MODOS, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2019): 116-133.
“The Exhibitionary Construction of the ‘Islamic Interior,’” in John Potvin (ed.), Oriental Interior: Design, Identity, Space, Bloomsbury, (2015): 39-58.
“The Other Space of the Persian Garden,” Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2012): 85-96.
“The Space of Passing Time,” The 2nd International Conference of Architecture and Phenomenology, Kyoto (2009).
recent conferences
“Nationalism and Orientalism in the Grammar of Ornament,” in Association for Art History (AAH), University College London (2023).
“The Imperial Discourse of Global Architectural History,” in Britain and the World Conference, Duquesne University (2023).
“The Iran Bastan Museum between Archeology and Nationalism,” in Global History and Culture Center (GHCC) Annual Conference: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800-1939, University of Warwick, Coventry (2023).
“Between Universal and Historical; The “Oriental” Ornament in Owen Jones’ Gallery Design,” Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Annual Meeting (2023).
"Dealing with Islam at the Iran Bastan Museum,” College Art Association (CAA), Chicago (2022).
“Out of Order,” The 6th meeting of Digital Humanities Utah (DHU6), Salt Lake City (2022).
“Eurocentrism in Interior Design’s History,” Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Annual Meeting, New York (2022).
“The Style of the ‘Other,’” in Space, Art, and Architecture between East and West (2021).
“Dynamic Narrative, Fixed Regions; Mapping James Fergusson’s World Architecture,” Humanities Research Association (AHRA) 18th Annual Meeting: Region, Leicestershire (2021).
“Decorated Otherness,” Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Future, Brighton (2020).
"The ‘Oriental Court’ at the South Kensington Museum,” College Art Association (CAA), Chicago (2020).
“The Order of Things in James Fergusson’s Histories of Architecture,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 108th Annual Meeting, San Diego (2020).
“Open Plan, Closed Boundaries; the Space of the Modern Museum,” Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms, Boulder (2020).
"The ‘Oriental Court’ at the South Kensington Museum,” College Art Association (CAA), Chicago (2020).