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Dr Danilo Udovički-Selb teaches architectural design, history and theory and specializes in the twentieth-century architecture and the Italian Quattrocento. His most recent work includes a monograph published by the University of Norway at Trondheim: The Evolution of Soviet Architectural Culture in the First decade of Stalin’s “Perestroika” (2009) and a forthcoming essay in the Journal of Architectural Historians “Between Constructivism and Socialist Realism: Soviet Architectural Culture, 1928-1938.”

In 2007 Professor Udovički-Selb joined the Editorial board of the Giornale dell’Archiettura (Carlo Olmo Director) Turin, Italy, as special correspondent / architectural critic for the United States. His publications include a contribution to the first scholarly study on Charlotte Perriand, edited by Mary McLeod, Columbia University and to the George Pompidou Center exhibition catalogue on a major retrospective of Perriand’s œuvre in 2007; an essay on the Kislovodsk sanatorium by Moisej Ginzburg, published in a special issue of the DOCOMOMO on Modern Hospitals, (Paris, Cité de l’Architecture, 2007); a chapter on Hans Georg Gadamer, Karel Kosik and the Russian Formalists published in a Festrieft book dedicated to Stanford Anderson (MIT); essays in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians on Le Corbusier’s “Pavillion des Temps Nouveaux”; an essay in a special issue of the Canadian Urban History Review on French Urbanist Jacques Gréber; a chapter on Le Corbusier’s “inhabited highways” in Infrastructures, Villes et Territoires (published by L'Harmattan, Paris). He is currently working on a book manuscript related to the evolution on modern architecture during the Soviet “Cultural Revolution.” Professor Udovički-Selb’s involvement with interdisciplinary teaching and research includes the Center for European Studies (CES); the Center for Russian, East-European and Eurasian Studies (CREES); the Department of Art and Art History, and the School’s Italy Program where he also served as Director.